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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Retail |
Founded | 1972Houston, Texas, United States | in
Headquarters | Houston, Texas, United States |
Products | Bakery, beer, dairy, delicatessen, frozen foods, gasoline, general merchandise, meat, pharmacy, produce, seafood, wine |
Owner | Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. de C.V. |
Website | fiestamart |
Fiesta Mart, L.L.C. , formerly Fiesta Mart Inc., [1] is a Latino-American supermarket chain based in Houston, Texas that was established in 1972. Fiesta Mart stores are located in Texas. The chain uses a cartoon parrot as a mascot. As of 2004 it operated 34 supermarkets in Greater Houston, 16 supermarkets in other locations in Texas, and 17 Beverage Mart liquor store locations. During the same year it had 7.5% of the grocery market share in Greater Houston. Many of its stores were located in Hispanic neighborhoods and other minority neighborhoods. [2]
The chain is best known for stocking Hispanic groceries, and also serves hot cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner; Allison Wollam of the Houston Business Journal said "The company has been successful at targeting the Hispanic market and specifically catering to their needs and shopping styles." [3] Bernie Murphy, a spokesperson for Fiesta, said in 2006 that at some stores Hispanics make up to 70% of those stores's clientele. [4] Fiesta caters to these customers with a large selection of foods and ingredients that are generally not available at a typical grocery store. Fiesta stores also often include several other stores owned by independent operators, such as discount jewelry and banking. Fiesta also operates Fiesta Liquor Stores, where only alcohol is sold.
In 1972, Donald Bonham and O.C. Mendenhall started Fiesta; neither of the men had Hispanic ethnic backgrounds. Bonham had farmed in Belize and Guatemala and supervised the creation of a Chilean supermarket chain. [3] When Bonham returned to Texas, he believed that Houston-area businesses did not adequately cater to Mexican Americans, a large segment of the city's population. Bonham opened the first Fiesta, which catered exclusively to Hispanic Americans, [5] in the Near Northside. [6]
As the demographics of Houston changed, by the late 1970s Fiesta added African, Indian, Korean, Filipino, and Vietnamese items. [5] By the mid-1980s Fiesta had 15 stores. [7] By 1989 the stores also featured items catering to African Americans and Thai Americans. By that year Fiesta had $420 million in annual sales, including $25 million in apparel sales. [5] As the chain developed, its clientele became larger and included second and third-generation Hispanics. [3]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Fiesta operated a very large supermarket and general goods store, an early version of modern supercenters like Walmart Supercenter or SuperTarget, at the southwest side of the intersection of I-45 and Texas State Highway NASA Road 1 in Webster, TX. This store was targeted towards the surrounding community, which was one of the more affluent Houston suburbs. It featured a large, sloped hydroponic garden along the north wall. The floor space was slowly sold off in portions in the 1990s. As of 2011, the location is now called the NASA Value Center Shopping Center and has no Fiesta presence.
In 1994, Fiesta acquired four locations sold by Appletree Markets. [8] In 1998 Fiesta made a marketing agreement with Conoco Inc. to allow the gas station chain to build gas stations on the properties of Fiesta supermarkets. [9] In 1999 Fiesta had 10.9% of Houston's grocery market. [7]
In 2003 the Houston Press ranked Fiesta as the "Best Grocery Store" in Houston. [10]
In 2004, Fiesta Mart was acquired by Grocers Supply, a family owned Houston-based wholesale groceries distributor. [11] On July 23, 2008, Fiesta Mart acquired eleven Carnival Brand stores from Minyard Food Stores. [12] In 2015 the Levit family, the owners of Grocers Supply, sold Fiesta to Acon Investments, a company based in Washington, DC. [6] California-based Bodega Latina and its Mexican parent company Chedraui acquired Fiesta Mart from Acon in April 2018. [13]
The headquarters is on Wirt Road, [14] on the property of Store #8 in Spring Branch, Houston. [15] [16]
The headquarters was in the Cottage Grove area of Houston for many many years. [17] [18]
The property was sold,[ citation needed ] and the office was later in the Capital One building on Westheimer Road near the Galleria; [19] it moved there in 2018.[ citation needed ]
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Fiesta Mart – Corporate Office 2311 Wirt Road Houston, Texas 77055
2323 Wirt Rd, Houston, TX, 77055
Fiesta Mart, L.L.C. 5444 Westheimer Road, Suite 101 Houston, TX 77056