Longo's

Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc.
Private
Industry Retail supermarket
Founded Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1956 (1956))
Founder Tommy, Joe, and Gus Longo
Headquarters Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Number of locations
 30
Area served
 Greater Toronto Area
Products Bakery, dairy, deli, frozen foods, general grocery, meat & poultry, produce, seafood, snacks, pharmacy (at six locations), flowers, Starbucks
Number of employees
 5,000+
Website www.longos.com
Longo's Rutherford
Longo's First Canadian Place store.
Longos in Markham

Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc., commonly known as just Longo's, is a family-run grocery chain in the Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada. Its corporate office is located in Vaughan, and had been previously located in Mississauga.

Longo's was founded by brothers Tommy, Joe, and Gus Longo in 1956, who established their first store at the intersection of Yonge Street and Castlefield Avenue in Toronto.[1] This store was about 190 square metres (2,000 sq ft), and had eight family members working there. The Longo brothers opened their second store in 1962, on Woodbine Avenue.[1]

Longo's owns and operates 28 stores in the Greater Toronto Area. A 4,500-square-metre (48,000 sq ft) flagship store opened in Maple Leaf Square in downtown Toronto, and a new store opened in Mississauga on February 26, 2015.

In 2004, Longo's acquired online grocery retailer Grocery Gateway, providing Longo's with the largest online grocery retail presence in Canada.

Longo's currently has over 5,000 employees, and has been selected as one of Canada's Top 50 privately managed companies by the Financial Post newspaper for nine consecutive years (2000-2008), achieving platinum status.[2]

Longo's publishes a free magazine called Experience Magazine.

Joe Longo Sr. died in the fall of 2008. Tommy Longo died on 30 January 2011.

Locations

30 locations:

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Family History". Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc. Archived from the original on October 22, 2006. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  2. ↑ "Platinum Club members". Deloitte & Touche LLP, CIBC, National Post, and Queen's School of Business. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
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