Stater Bros. Markets Coupons

<img src="http://www.staterbros.com/getfile/3cf449ed-8b5d-4095-b0c9-b9fbe0aaf7ed/image004.aspx" width="420"> http://www.staterbros.com/getfile/3cf449ed-8b5d-4095-b0c9-b9fbe0aaf7ed/image004.aspx <img src="http://www.staterbros.com/getfile/0ccb5b1f-e712-40f2-ba20-007b2c02be02/image006.aspx" width="420"> In 1960, the Company began operation of a construction division. This new division acted as a general contractor and became responsible for all planning, supervision and construction of new stores and other facilities. It was also this year that the Company opened its first Orange County Supermarket. In 1968, the Stater brothers sold their interest in the Company, and Stater Bros. Markets became a division of Petrolane Incorporated. By the end of the decade, Stater Bros. Markets totaled 35 locations in the four counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange. In 1979, scanning was introduced in the stores and during this time there was a significant growth and expansion for the Company. During the 1970’s, the number of store locations more than doubled to a total of 83 Supermarkets. The year of 1980 was the largest calendar year of growth in the Company, with 10 Supermarkets opening. The next year, Jack H. Brown joined the Company as President and Chief Executive Officer, and the Company’s growth in sales and new stores took off. In 1982, Stater Bros. launched its first television advertising campaign. In 1986, Jack Brown, in addition to being President and Chief Executive Officer, was elected Chairman of the Board. In 1988, Jack Brown announced that Stater Bros. Markets had reached a sales volume in excess of one billion dollars for the first time. "" Coming into the 90’s there were over 100 stores. In 1999, Stater Bros. Markets acquired 43 additional Supermarket locations, which included 33 former Albertson’s supermarkets and 10 former Lucky supermarkets. Ten of the new locations were in San Diego County, giving Stater Bros. its first presence in that county. In addition, the store count doubled in both Los Angeles and Orange Counties. By the year 2004, Stater Bros. had been awarded “Supermarket Retailer of the Year” twice, by Progressive Grocer in 2001 and by Grocery Headquarters Magazine in 2004. In 2005, Stater Bros. made the “Fortune 500” list for the first time and was the only Inland Empire headquartered company to make the list. On January 25, 2005, Jack Brown was presented with the Sidney R. Rabb Award, to honor his lifetime of extraordinary contributions to the food marketing industry and to his community. <img src="http://www.staterbros.com/getfile/b6321512-4aa0-4ae5-b6cd-54d82b1f83d0/image010.aspx" width="420"> Today, Stater Bros. is the largest privately owned Supermarket Chain in Southern California, with annual sales in 2007 of $3.7 billion Stater Bros. is also the largest employer and the No. 1 Supermarket Chain in the Inland Empire area of Southern California (San Bernardino and Riverside Counties), which is America’s fastest growing economic area. The company currently operates 167 Full Service Supermarkets in the six Southern California counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego and Kern. <img src="http://www.staterbros.com/getfile/18bb10a3-c897-4f12-b585-d03586883291/image012.aspx" width="420"> On October 24, 2007, Stater Bros. officially opened the new Stater Bros. Corporate Offices on the former Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California. In addition to Stater Bros. Corporate Offices, the Company’s new 200-acre Campus includes a new 2.1 million sq. ft. Distribution Center. The new Dry Distribution Center began operation in February of 2008, and the new Refrigerated Distribution Center began operation in September of 2008. On November 15, 2008 Stater Bros. announced the grand opening of the Company’s new 17,000 sq. ft. Human Resources Building, located south of the new Stater Bros. Corporate Offices. The new Stater Bros. Distribution Center replaces 11 structures, in eight locations, in four cities. The Stater Bros. Distribution Center is the largest under-one-roof Supermarket Distribution Center in America and provides Stater Bros. with, what management believes will be, America’s most efficient system, which includes the shortest average mileage for store deliveries of 41 miles.