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Dominick's

is in the Food Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.0B
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

In 1918 Dominick DiMatteo, who had arrived in Chicago from Italy only nine years earlier, had two major events occur. He opened his own deli at 3832 W.Ohio Avenue. And that same year his son, Dominick DiMatteo, Jr., was born. Together they were to build one of the most successful chains of food stores in the heartland of America. Dominick's Finer Foods started as a true neighborhood store, focused on the best in Italian foods, the freshest meats and produce, and service that included interacting with customers on a first-name basis. A second Dominick's opened in 1934. Though it was the depths of the Depression, the original formula of personalized neighborhood service assured the store's success. When the first supermarkets opened after WWII, the Dominick DiMatteo father-and-son management team seized the opportunity for expansion. In 1950 their corner store concept was transformed into 14,000 square feet on W. North Ave., becoming the cornerstone of their chain of supermarkets...

Contact Information

711 Jorie Blvd

Oak Brook, Illinois 60523

www.dominicks.c...

1 630 891 5000

NAICS Code All Other Specialty Food Stores: 445299

News & Analysis

dominick's and randall - All News and Analysis

  • Italian market set for S. Elgin.(News)

    - 2007-06-07

    Byline: Lenore T. Adkins ladkins@@dailyherald.com South Elgin will soon be offering a taste of Little Italy, complete with fresh cannoli, hand-stretched mozzarella cheese and wine imported from the country that's shaped like a boot. Caputo's Fresh Markets, which offers...

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  • Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the editor)

    - 2007-05-11

    Thanks for plenty of food drive donations On behalf of the Realtors and staff of Baird & Warner's north Randall office in Carpenters-ville, we'd like to thank the generous people of Elgin and Carpentersville for their overwhelming participation in our Goodwill Network Food Drive...

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  • Drop of a coin nets charity at least $450.(News)

    - 2004-12-08

    Byline: Tom O'Konowitz Daily Herald Staff Writer An anonymous do-gooder dropped a gold coin into one of the Salvation Army's holiday fund-raising kettles set up outside a South Elgin grocery store. The Salvation Army of Elgin, which manned the kettle at ...

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  • Dominick's chief opts to check out after a year.(Business)

    - 2004-09-18

    Byline: Mike Comerford Daily Herald Business Writer R. Randall Onstead Jr. is stepping down as president of Dominick's Finer Foods about a year after being appointed to lead its turnaround. The Oak Brook-based subsidiary of Safeway Inc. said veteran Safeway executive...

    Tags: Dominick's, Randall, Safeway Plc.

  • Management Changes at Dominick's

    - 2004-09-17

    PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Safeway Inc. announced today that R. Randall Onstead, Jr., president of its Chicago-area subsidiary, Dominick's Finer Foods, LLC, has resigned for personal reasons. His successor will be Bruce Everette, who will assume leadership of Dominick's as one of his major responsibilities as an executive vice president at...

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