Big Y
| Big Y Foods, Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1936 |
| Seat | Springfield , Massachusetts |
| management | Donald H. D'Amour |
| Number of employees | 10,000 |
| sales | 1.5 billion US dollars |
| Branch | retail trade |
| Website | www.bigy.com |
Big Y Foods, Inc. is a supermarket chain in the United States. It has 61 branches in the US states of Connecticut and Massachusetts , and the company is based in Springfield, Massachusetts .
profile
The company's history began in 1936 when the brothers Paul and Gerry D'Amour bought a grocery store in Chicopee . The store was originally named Y Cash Market because of its location at a Y-shaped intersection.
Today the company claims to have around 10,000 employees and in 2011 achieved annual sales of US $ 1.5 billion. The supermarket chain is also owned by the D'Amour family in 2013 and is run by cousins Donald H. D'Amour and Mathieu L. D'Amour .