June 14-15, 2009
Hershey, Pennsylvania Area
The new Giant To Go offers a selection of foods with an emphasis on immediate consumption and fresh “take-home” choices for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The store features a variety of high-quality fresh produce, meats, deli and bakery products as well as fuel forecourt. Many products, including a variety of fruits and vegetables and frozen food items are available in both single serve and family pack sizes. Giant operates 65 fuel stations across the chain. Giant Food Stores, LLC, one of the leading supermarket operations in the U.S., currently operates stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia under the names of Giant Food Stores, Martin's Food Markets and Giant To Go.
Royal Farms has been in operation since 1959 and has stores throughout Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Rutter’s Farm Stores debuted in 1967 as an outlet for Rutter’s Dairy products. Today, Rutter’s Farm Stores has more than 50 stores in the state of Pennsylvania. In 2005, Rutter’s Holdings Inc. was formed as a parent company for the three operating companies: Rutter’s Dairy, Rutter’s Farm Stores and M&G Realty. For its contributions to central Pennsylvania’s business community – in the form of leadership, innovation and growth – Rutter’s Holdings was named the Central Penn Business Journal’s Business of the Year for 2005. Rutter’s Holdings also ranked fifth on the Central Penn Business Journal’s 2006 list of the Top 100 Privately Held Companies in central Pennsylvania.
Sheetz is a family owned chain based in Altoona, Pennsylvania. For more than 50 years, the mission at Sheetz has been to meet the needs of customers on the go. Sheetz is a privately held, family owned and operated company. Sheetz operates more than 350 stores throughout six states: Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina.
Shipley Group, the York-based company comprising Shipley Energy, Tom’s Convenience Stores and Yowza Spring Water, is celebrating 80 years of outstanding service to 15 counties throughout central Pennsylvania. The company is the largest locally owned provider of home heating energy, including oil, natural gas and propane. The Shipley Group also installs and services heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment; offers indoor air quality services; operates the Tom’s Convenience Store chain; and distributes Yowza Spring Water.
Turkey Hill Minit Markets has over 240 stores throughout central Pennsylvania. Turkey Hill Minit Markets is one of five convenience store divisions in the United States operated by The Kroger Co. The Kroger Co. is one of the largest retail food companies in the United States as measured by total annual sales. Spanning many states with store formats that include grocery and multi-department stores, convenience stores and mall jewelry stores, The Kroger Company operates under nearly two dozen banners, all of which share the same belief in building strong local ties and brand loyalty with customers.
Named after a local Native American tribe in honor of their favored game, the Canada Goose, Wawa has more than 16,000 associates and over 500 stores in five states. Wawa is famous for both its innovative use of in-store technology and its food development programs. Wawa offers a large fresh food selection, including Wawa brands in coffee, built to-order hoagies and other sandwiches, juices and teas, ready to-go salads, and produce.