SuperValu Inc. (NYSE: SVU) is a United States grocery retailer and distributor. The corporation, headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota,[2] has been in business for over a century. It is the third-largest food retailing company in the United States (after Kroger and Safeway), and ranks #51 on the Fortune 100 list.[3] On June 2, 2006, Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons, Inc. and 1,124 of its stores were sold to SuperValu. The sale was approved by the shareholders of both SuperValu and Albertsons on May 30, 2006. Supermarket News ranked SuperValu #1 in the 2008 "Top Wholesalers for 2008".[4]
Feeding America is a United States–based nonprofit organization that is a nationwide network of more than 200 food banks that feed more than 46 million people through food pantries, soup kitchens, shelters, and other community-based agencies.[1] Forbes ranks it as the second largest U.S. charity by revenue.[2]