JACKSONVILLE, FL - The parent company for the Bi-Lo, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., and Harveys Supermarkets has changed up its own title.
Formerly Bi-Lo Holdings LLC, the company is now going by Southeastern Grocers to avoid any confusion between names, according to a Jacksonville Business Journal Report, as well as with the intention of encompassing all supermarkets and not show any favoritism between banners.
“This change symbolizes that, regardless of whether they work for BI-LO, Harveys, or Winn-Dixie, they are all part of a unified family with a common aim to do the best they can for all of our customers across the Southeast,” Tiffany Valla Hutto, Spokeswoman for the Southeastern Grocers, reportedly told the Business Journal.
Though the company reportedly operates nearly 800 stores, making it one of the top five largest in the nation, according to its website, it stated that the change will not affect the name of the banners it parents.
Southeastern Grocers had planned to undergo the change when it filed for an IPO upwards of $500 million in September of 2013, according to the report, but ended up withdrawing.
