Bruno's Supermarkets is an American chain of grocery stores, founded in Birmingham, Alabama. It currently operates under the corporate umbrella of Bi-Lo, LLC, along with Bi-Lo Stores. Bruno's operates stores under several brand names, including Vincent's, Food World, FoodMax, and FoodFair, primarily in Alabama. Look up chain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Supermarket produce section A supermarket is a store that sells a wide variety of goods including food and alcohol, medicine, clothes, and other household products that are consumed regularly. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Magic City, Pittsburgh of the South, BHam Location Location in Jefferson County in the state of Alabama Government Country State County United States Alabama Jefferson County Mayor Bernard Kincaid (D) Geographical characteristics Area    - City 151. ... BI-LO is the name of three separate supermarket/grocery store chains. ... Official language(s) English Capital Montgomery Largest city Birmingham Area  Ranked 30th  - Total 52,423 sq. ...

The company began as a market opened by Joseph Bruno in Birmingham during the Great Depression. The company grew steadily, with ten stores in place during the 1950s, and 29 stores open under the Bruno's name when it became a publicly traded company in 1971. The following year, Bruno's entered the discount grocery business with its first Food World stores. Food Fair stores followed in 1983, and FoodMax — their largest stores featuring deeper discounts and larger selections — opened in 1984. The company also operated Big B Discount Drugs, a chain begun in 1968 and expanded to 40 stores before being sold to a succession of new owners; eventually most locations ended up as part of the CVS chain. The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn, starting in 1929 and lasting through most of the 1930s. ... The 1950s were a decade that spanned the years 1950 through 1959, although some sources say from 1951 through 1960. ... A publicly traded corporation often refers to a company whose shares are traded on the open market, such as a stock market. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... CVS can refer to: Antisubmarine aircraft carriers (CVS), United States Navys hull classification symbol. ...

In 1995, the company was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), a leveraged buyout firm. That acquisition as ill-fated, as the company's debt structure combined with management missteps and increased competition from Wal-Mart Supercenters to drive it into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company emerged from bankruptcy in 2000 after closing a number of unprofitable stores. The remainder of the company was sold to Ahold, a Dutch corporation, who then combined it with Bi-Lo. The new management struggled as well, and in 2005 Ahold finally sold the combined operation to Lone Star Funds, a private investment company which also owns Captain D's and Shoney's restaurants. Lone Star then sold many stores to C&S Wholesale Grocers, which operates the new stores under its Southern Family Markets affiliate. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (commonly referred to as KKR) is a New York City based private equity firm that focuses primarily on late stage leveraged buyouts. ... A leveraged buyout (or LBO, or highly-leveraged transaction (HLT), or bootstrap transaction) occurs when a financial sponsor gains control of a majority of a target companys equity through the use of borrowed money or debt. ... Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ... Chapter 11 is a part of the United States Code dealing with bankruptcy. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Ahold, (in full Koninklijke Ahold N.V., Royal Ahold N.V.), (Euronext: AH, FWB: AHO, NYSE: AHO) based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands is one of the worlds largest supermarket operators and one of the worlds largest foodservice and retail companies. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Captain Deez Nuts is a chain of fast-food restaurants, specializing in seafood and fish and chips. ... Shoneys is a restaurant chain in the United States that had a franchise with the Big Boy chain. ... Toms Restaurant, a restaurant in New York made familiar by Suzanne Vega and the television sitcom Seinfeld For other uses, see Restaurant (disambiguation). ...

Golf tournament

Bruno's was the chief corporate sponsor for many years of the Bruno's Memorial Classic golf tournament, a regular stop on the PGA Champions Tour. The "memorial" in the tournament name honors Lee and Angelo Bruno, brothers of founder Joe Bruno and founders of the tournament; they were killed in an airplane crash shortly after the tournament was announced in 1991. The first tournament was played the following year at Greystone Country Club in Hoover, Alabama. Golf (gowf in Scots) is a sport where individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... A tournament is an organized competition in which many participants play each other in individual games. ... PGA means one of the following things: Professional Golfers Association Producers Guild of America Peoples Global Action Pin grid array, a type of packaging for integrated circuits Plastic grid array Professional Graphics Adapter, a video interface card for CAD applications An abbreviation for a type of prostaglandin (with PGB, PGC... The Champions Tour, a golf tour run by the PGA TOUR, hosts 30 events annually in the United States and Canada for golfers 50 and older. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hoover is a city in Jefferson and Shelby counties in middle central Alabama. ...

With the Bruno's downsizing in 2005, the company was no longer willing to shoulder the entire cost of sponsorship for the tournament. Regions Financial Corporation took over as the title sponsor with Bruno's as a "presenting sponsor" for 2006 and the event moved to the new Ross Bridge Golf Resort, a Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail course in Hoover. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Regions Financial Corporation NYSE: RF is a publicly held company based in Birmingham, Alabama. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail is a collection of nine championship caliber golf courses, designed by Robert Trent Jones, Sr. ...

Ronnie Bruno, son of Angelo Bruno, continues to serve as chairman of the tournament. Additionally, the group that managed the tournament, run by Ronnie Bruno and Gene Hallman, later became a full-time event-management company known as the Bruno Event Team. The team runs a wide variety of events, mostly sports-related, including many championships for the Southeastern Conference. (Bruno himself is no longer associated with Bruno's Supermarkets, nor are any other Bruno family members.) The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is a college athletic conference which operates in the southeastern part of the United States. ...

External links

• Company web site
• Birmingham Business Journal: Lone Star Funds buys Bruno's