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Fiesta Mart, Inc.
5235 Katy Fwy.
Houston, TX 77007
TX Tel. 713-869-5060
Fax 713-869-6197

Type: Subsidiary
On the web: http://www.fiestamart.com
 Employees: 5,900

Fiesta Mart celebrates food every day of the year. The company runs some 55 stores in Texas that sell ethnic and conventional groceries, including items popular with its target customers: Mexican- and Asian-Americans. Its stores are located mainly in the Houston area, but Fiesta also has been adding stores in the Dallas/Fort Worth area and in Austin. Fiesta purchased three supermarkets from Winn-Dixie Stores when the grocer left Texas. At its supermarkets, Fiesta leases kiosks to vendors who offer such items as jewelry and cell phones. The company also runs some 15 Fiesta liquor stores. Fiesta Mart, founded in 1972 by Donald Bonham and O. C. Mendenhall, was acquired by wholesaler Grocers Supply Co. in 2004.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending May, 2008:
Sales: $1,137.7M

Officers:
President: Louis Katopodis
Director, Operations: James (Jim) Woodward
CFO and Controller: Vicki Baum

Competitors:
H-E-B
Kroger
Randall's

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Fiesta Mart / Carnival Food Stores
Type Grocery Store
Founded 1972
Headquarters Houston, Texas
Industry Retail
Products Bakery, beer, dairy, delicatessen, frozen foods, gasoline, general merchandise, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, wine.
Website www.fiestamart.com
Fiesta Mart location in Midtown, Houston, Texas, United States

Fiesta Mart is a United States supermarket chain headquartered in Houston, Texas that was established in 1972. As of February 2007, Fiesta Mart operates 49 stores in Texas, including the Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, and Waco areas. The chain uses a cartoon parrot as a mascot.

In 2004, Fiesta Mart was acquired by Grocers Supply, a family owned Houston-based wholesale groceries distributor.

The chain caters to Hispanic and international customers with a large selection of foods and ingredients that are generally not available at a typical grocery store. Fiesta stores also often include several other stores owned by independent operators, such as discount jewelry and banking. Fiesta also operates Fiesta Liquor Stores, where only alcohol is sold.

A location on Kirby Drive is notable for containing a restaurant (labeled as "Chinese") that continues to carry the original version of Mr. Pibb (not Pibb Extra).

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Fiesta Mart And Carnival Food Stores

On July 23, 2008 Fiesta Mart acquired eleven Carnival Brand stores from Minyard Food Stores.[1]

Locations

Former stores

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Beaumont, Texas (1994-1995, site is now the headquarters of Conn's, Inc., a chain of electronics/appliance stores in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma)

Grand Prairie, Texas

(Carnival food store 1999-2008)

(SAVERS COST + PLUS 2008-present)

References

  1. ^ "Fiesta parent purchasing Carnival stores from Minyard" - Fort Worth Business Press (retrieved November 7, 2008)

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