Big Y

Big Y Foods, Inc., a supermarket chain in the United States. It has 61 stores in the U.S. states of Connecticut and Massachusetts, 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 original name Y Cash Market was awarded the business due to its location on a Y-shaped intersection.

Today, the company has approximately 10,000 employees by its own account and in 2011 generated an annual turnover of U.S. $ 1.5 billion. The supermarket chain is guided in 2013 owned by the D'Amour family and cousins ​​of the Donald H. D' Amour and Mathieu L. D' Amour.