Fairway Markets

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Fairway Markets [1] is a regional grocery chain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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The ten store chain was founded by Don Yuen [2] in 1963 and employs over 700. [3]

Founder

Don Yuen was born in China, where his family had operated a grocery store for three generations and came to Canada in 1949 after the family lost their business to communism. [4] Yuen worked at his uncle's store and at a sawmill before embarking on his own store in 1963. Yuen is now Fairway Markets' President.

References

  1. Fairway Market website
  2. "Company Profile". Archived from the original on 2012-01-16. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
  3. "Brentwood Bay store makes 10 for Fairway Market chain - Peninsula News Review". www.peninsulanewsreview.com. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
  4. "Honorary Cabinet". Archived from the original on 2010-12-11. Retrieved 2012-05-30.