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Home > Company Index > Retail > Grocery Retailing > Brookshire Brothers, LTD.

Brookshire Brothers, LTD.
 PROFILE
Offering everything from garden-fresh vegetables to gasoline, Brookshire Brothers is a grocery retailer with about 70 locations, most of which feature Pump & Save outlets selling Conoco gasoline. Dating back to 1921, the firm has supermarkets mostly in East Texas, but also in Louisiana. Most of its stores operate under the Brookshire Brothers banner; its other store names include Budget Chopper, B&B Foods, and Celebrity Foods. Brookshire Brothers is not affiliated with Brookshire Grocery of Tyler, Texas. The companies share a common ancestry, but a split between the founding brothers in the late 1930s resulted in the separate grocery chains. Formerly family-owned, Brookshire Brothers is now 67%-owned by employees.

 COMPETITION
H. E. Butt Grocery Company (dossier)
The Kroger Co. (KR)
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT)

 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: April
2000 Sales (mil.): 700.00
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 3.7%
Employees: 5,500
Revenue per employee: $127,272.73

 KEY PEOPLE
• Tim Hale
    CEO
• Donny Johnson
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
1201 Ellen Trout Dr.
Lufkin, TX 75901
US
Phone: 936-634-8155
Fax: 936-633-4611
Online: Web Site

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