Market Place (supermarket)

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Market Place
Cold Storage Fresh
Mercató
The Marketplace
Company typeSupermarket
IndustryRetailing
Founded1975 (Singapore)
Headquarters
Hong Kong
Parent DFI Retail Group
Website www.marketplacebyjasons.com
Former logo in Hong Kong Market Place by Jasons Logo.png
Former logo in Hong Kong
Market Place by Jasons in Telford Plaza, Hong Kong Market Place Telford Plaza Store.jpg
Market Place by Jasons in Telford Plaza, Hong Kong
Jasons Market Place in Taipei 101 Mall Market Place by Jasons in Taipei 101 Mall.JPG
Jasons Market Place in Taipei 101 Mall

Market Place (formerly Market Place by Jasons, Jason's Food & Living, and Jasons ichiba) in Hong Kong, Cold Storage Fresh (formerly Market Place, Jasons, and Jasons Deli) in Singapore and The Marketplace (formerly Market Place by Rustan's) in the Philippines is a high-end supermarket chain owned by DFI Retail Group. The chain also has a joint venture in mainland China with Beijing Hualian Group called BHG Market Place and formerly ran stores (Jasons Market Place) in Taiwan until they were sold to Carrefour. The Malaysian chain called Mercató (formerly Jasons Food Hall) is owned by Macrovalue Sdn Bhd. after its acquisition of DFI Malaysian food retailing business in 2023. [1]

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DFI also operates further similar supermarkets under the 3hreeSixty and Oliver's The Delicatessen brands in Hong Kong, and has various other supermarkets around Asia including Wellcome, Cold Storage, Hero and Giant. [2]

History

Jasons Market Place started its business in Singapore in 1975. It was introduced in Taiwan in 2003. [3] [4] In 2007, it opened in Hong Kong's Jardine's Lookout under the name "Market Place by Jasons". [5] [6] In 2012, Jasons Food Hall began operations in the Bangsar Shopping Centre, an upmarket shopping mall in the township of Bangsar, Malaysia, as a replacement for a Cold Storage store. [7] Jasons Market Place in Taiwan was sold to Carrefour in 2020 [8] [9] and rebranded as Mia C'bon from 2022. [10]

Brands

Private labels

Market Place supermarkets sell products from DFI's Meadows and Yu Pin King private labels.[ citation needed ]

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