Fairway Markets

Not to be confused with Fairway Market.
For other uses, see Fairway (disambiguation).

Fairway Markets [1] is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

The 10 store chain was founded by Don Yuen[2] in 1963 and employs over 700.[3]

The chain is a low cost grocery store with a significant emphasis on ethnic foods.

Founder

Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocer store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business.[4] Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963. Yuen is now Fairway Markets' President.

Locations

References

  1. Fairway Market website
  2. http://www.fairwaymarkets.com/index.php/about-us/company-profile
  3. http://www.peninsulanewsreview.com/news/125577923.html
  4. http://www.150goldenmountain.ca/EN/main/team/cbnt.html

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