progressive enterprises

Progressive Enterprises Limited is a New Zealand company, and a subsidiary of the Australian retail group Foodlands Associated Limited. It is New Zealand's second-largest grocer, with 45% market share, behind the cooperative group Foodstuffs. Progressive acquired the New Zealand supermarket group Woolworths Supermarkets NZ in 2002, following a lengthy Competition Commission adjudication http://www.comcom.govt.nz/publications/publications.cfm?year=2001&pub_ID=3 and court battle with competitor Foodstuffs that ended in the Privy Council rulinghttp://www.privy-council.org.uk/files/other/PROGRE~2%20(No.%2025%20rtf).rtf for Progressive. Progressive runs the following grocery store chains (fascias):

Woolworths: 64 supermarket stores nationwide
Countdown: 55 discounter supermarket stores, including a number of rebranded "Big Fresh" stores following the Progressive takeover of Woolworths Supermarkets NZ
Foodtown: 30 supermarket stores nationwide
SuperValue: 30 South Island small stores, run as a franchise
Fresh Choice: 11 South Island small stores, run as a franchise

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