PuritySupremeFoods
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PuritySupreme is a registered TradeMark of KOZADCO Brands. (C) (TM) 2012 Kozadco Brands. All rights Reserved. Established 2012. WWW.PuritySupreme.com
Former Purity Supreme, Inc history:
Save-Mor Supermarkets was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1935. Purity Food stores were acquired in 1965 and all stores later operated retail operations under the Purity Save-Mor name by 1969. Other store locations including some former Elm Farm and New England Food Fair supermarkets were also acquired. In 1970, the company merged with Supreme Markets to form Purity Supreme Markets.
From 1984, Purity Supreme was a division of Supermarkets General Holdings Corporation. It operated from a headquarters located in North Billerica, Massachusetts. At its height, the company operated 64 supermarkets in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut. supermarkets General also operated 63 owned and franchised Li'l Peach convenience stores and 23 Pharmacity drugstores in Massachusetts. They also ran the successful Heartland Foods warehouse style supermarket chain. The Angelos Supermarket chain was then acquired in 1986. Purity Supreme, Inc and Li'l Peach had combined sales of about $1.3 billion in 1991 before the company was bought out again by Freeman Spogli & Co. ,an investment firm, for about US$300 million, including the acquisition of debt. By this time all three supermarkets store names were changed to simply Purity, and the original PS Heart Logo was retired.
In 1995, Purity Supreme, Inc was acquired by competitor Stop&Shop, agreeing with regulators to sell 15 stores to address antitrust concerns. Stop & Shop continued to operate 56 stores under the Purity name until 1997 when it renovated and converted all but three of them into Stop & Shop stores. The three remaining Purity stores were closed.
Purity Supreme was led for most of its existence by Leo Kahn who started Purity Sav-Mor Markets with some of its first stores in Billerica, Chelmsford, Wayland and Bedford. Some well known people worked for Purity Supreme over the years including early store managers Jack Murphy and Bruce Bernard. Leo Kahn was a health conscious individual. Even in his later years, he became a jogger. Kahn died at the age of 94 in 2011.
