Brookshire Grocery Acquiring 25 Walmart Express Stores, Launching New Brand
Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC) today announced the pending acquisition of 25 former Walmart Expressstores. The stores will open this summer as the company’s new Spring Market brand. The acquisition is scheduled to close in July.
According to the company, the name “Spring Market” represents and honors its history, which began in 1928 with the opening of BGC’s first store on Spring Avenue in Tyler, Texas.
The stores will offer “hometown convenience in an easy to shop format” with an assortment of products at highly competitive prices.
“Brookshire Grocery Company is already known throughout our market areas for having great stores, and we are confident that our customers in these new markets will feel the exact same way. Our Spring Market stores will stand for friendly service, quality products, affordable convenience and a pleasant shopping environment. We are also really excited to hire hundreds of employees from these communities to help us take care of our new customers,” said Chairman and CEO Brad Brookshire. “We look forward to making a positive difference in each of these communities through our people, products, stores and service.”
The store locations range from southern Louisiana to West Texas and include Anson, Diana, DeKalb, Edgewood, Frankston, Godley, Grandview, Hughes Springs, Haskell, Italy, Kemp, Leonard, Lone Star, Maud, Merkel, Naples, Palmer, Waskom, Whitewright and Winters (all in Texas). Louisiana locations are in Colfax, Iowa, Lake Arthur, Mamou and Zwolle.
BGC employs 13,500 people and operates 152 stores in three states—Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas—with three distribution centers and six manufacturing facilities.
