Niemann Foods is a company headquartered in Quincy, Illinois

Quincy, Illinois

Quincy, known as Illinois' "Gem City," is a river city along the Mississippi River and the county seat of Adams County. As of the 2010 census the city held a population of 40,633. The city anchors its own micropolitan area and is the economic and regional hub of West-central Illinois, catering a...

 that owns and operates about 90 supermarkets, convenience, pet and hardware stores mostly under the County Market, County Market Express, Cub Foods, ACE Hardware, Pet Supplies Plus, Pick-A-Dilly and Save-A-Lot banners in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Niemann Foods' Save-A-Lot stores offer a limited assortment of groceries at discount prices while Cub Foods and Country Market are conventional grocery stores. The regional grocery store operator is battling for market share in the Midwest with Hy-Vee and supercenter operator Wal-Mart Stores. The employee-owned, family-run company was founded in 1917 by brothers Ferd and Steve Niemann and is currently headed by Rich Niemann.

History

The company has its roots in 1917 when Ferd Niemann, Sr and Steve Niemann opened their first grocery store

Grocery store

A grocery store is a store that retails food. A grocer, the owner of a grocery store, stocks different kinds of foods from assorted places and cultures, and sells these "groceries" to customers. Large grocery stores that stock products other than food, such as clothing or household items, are...

. Within a decade they would open and run 30 corner grocery shops. By 1940 they opened the first ever full-service supermarket to Quincy.

Supermarket Affiliates

• County Market
  County Market
  County Market is a supermarket chain operating in the Midwestern and Southern regions of the United States. Presently, more than 75 independently owned County Market stores operate in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.Many...
  
  , County Market Express
• Save A Lot
• Cub Foods
  Cub Foods
  Cub Foods is a supermarket chain with seventy-three stores in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based SuperValu...
  
  
• IGA
  IGA
  Iga or IGA may stand for:-Given name:* a female given name of Polish origin. The name originates from the female given name Jadwiga and stands for gia,or gina in the USA....
  
  
• Ace Hardware
  Ace Hardware
  Ace Hardware Corporation is a hardware cooperative based in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States. ACE Hardware Corporation, with 4,444 stores, does over $3 billion in retail hardware sales annually down from its peak of $12.5 billion in 2007.-History:...
  
  
• Pet Supplies Plus
• Food Depot