Although primarily into food marketing,the company also has their gasoline stations under the brand name Gas’N Go. The business also owns Food City Distribution Center, Misty Mountain Spring Water, LLC, Super Dollar Discount Foods and Food City Express. The former was a distribution center the company also helped to put up and has been acquired full control in 1998.
K-VA-T Food Stores is known for marketing Topco Corporate brands. House labels like Top Crest, ValuTime, Food City Fresh!, Full Circle, Food Club, Food City Premium, Electrix, Domestix, Pet Club, World Classics and Academix are being carried by their stores in all three states.
The company’s history traces back to the Piggly Wiggly store in Grundy, Virginia opened by founder Jack Smith in 1955. It was an 8,800 square foot establishment which was later on followed by their second store in South Williamson, Kentucky and a third location in Pikeville, Kentucky both of which were opened in 1965.
Growth of the company was pretty steady until its acquisition of Quality Foods in 1984 and White Stores in 1989. These two acquisitions added 19 and 43 stores respectively. The acquisition of White Stores significantly doubled the size of the company. The largest store of the company was opened in 2012 in Bristol, Virginia.
With revenue of $2.1 billion, the company operates as of April 2013, 105 retail food outlets, 1 liquor store, 1 convenience store, 76 in-store pharmacies and 75 fuel stations. Steven C. Smith is the top figure of the business and holds his office in Abingdon, Virginia.