Empire Company is a Canadian company headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. Empire’s key businesses are food retailing, through wholly-owned subsidiary Sobeys Inc., and related real estate. Sobeys Inc. is proudly Canadian, with more than 115 years of experience in the food retail business.

Empire and Sobeys Inc. serve the food shopping needs of Canadians with more than 1,500 stores, in 900 communities, across all 10 provinces. Empire and Sobeys Inc.’s retail banners include: Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods and Lawtons Drugs. Empire also operates grocery e-commerce business Voilà by Sobeys in Ontario, and Voilà par IGA in Quebec. Empire is currently working on expanding the grocery e-commerce business to Alberta and British Columbia in the coming years.

Empire is the second largest grocery retailer in Canada. Empire and its subsidiaries, franchisee partners and affiliates employ approximately 134,000 people.

Find out more about both Empire Company Limited and Sobeys Inc: https://www.empireco.ca/en/ and https://corporate.sobeys.com/our-purpose/