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Retail
SUPERVALU’s well-rounded portfolio of grocery retail
offerings—ranging from extreme value to price impact
to full-service—gives us the flexibility to serve a given
geographic market with store formats that fully address
local demand. We empower our local operations to
create successful local merchandising programs while
supporting them with the kinds of tools and expertise
only a company with SUPERVALU’s size and scope
can offer. Our stores are working every day to serve our
customers—and communities—better than anyone
else can. Consumers are responding to that pledge
daily—more than 10 million people shop our stores
each week.
Fiscal 2005 Retail highlights
•Maintained an aggressive building and remodeling
campaign to achieve a critical competitive edge—
85 percent of all Corporate Retail stores are new or
newly remodeled in the past seven years.
•Completed the conversion of more than one-third of
all Save-A-Lot stores to a combination extreme-value
food and single-price-point general merchandise
format.
•Leveraged SUPERVALU’s scope and purchasing
power to create national promotional opportunities
in support of aggressive local merchandising efforts.
Supply Chain Services
SUPERVALU is constantly responding to the evolving
supply chain demands of an increasingly diversified
marketplace. Retailers tap SUPERVALU’s traditional
core expertise in buying, category management,
logistics, transportation and technology to create more
efficient, cost-effective operations. Companies seeking
proven third-party logistics solutions draw on
SUPERVALU’s expanded supply chain capabilities to do
anything from transport a single load or outsource
entire parts of their supply chain operations.
Fiscal 2005 Supply Chain highlights
•Acquired Total Logistic Control (TLC), a leading
third-party supply chain services provider.
•Expanded SVHarbor, SUPERVALU’s Web-enabled
business-to-business portal, to better support product
manufacturer and supplier efficiencies.
•Launched W. Newell & Co., a revolutionary produce
business that will provide Midwestern retailers with
superior product selection, quality and service.
135 years of fresh thinking—that’s at the core of SUPERVALU’s approach to an ever-changing market. Combining
our long history of supply chain and grocery retail innovation with our established expertise, we have created a
unique blend of capabilities and a highly complementary business model that continue to unlock new opportunities.
SUPERVALU is:
•A leading U.S. grocery retailer
•The largest publicly held food wholesaler
in the United States
•A Fortune 500 Company
•A Fortune Most Admired Company
•A Forbes Platinum 400 Company
•A Fortune Global 500 Company
•One of Minnesota’s top public companies
•A Mergent Dividend Achiever, recognizing
consistent dividend payments to shareholders
for more than 60 years