Empire Company Limited

Empire Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the food retail and related real estate businesses in Canada. It operates through two segments, Food Retailing, and Investments and Other Operations. The company owns, affiliates, and franchises approximately 1,600 retail stores under various retail banners, including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy, Longo's, and Lawtons Drugs; and approximately 350 retail fuel locations, as well as operates grocery e-commerce stores under the banners, such as Voilà, Grocery Gateway, IGA.net, and ThriftyFoods.com. It also owns interest in the Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust, an open-ended real estate investment trust to own, operate, and develop a portfolio of grocery and pharmacy-anchored shopping centers, freestanding stores, and mixed-use developments; and various equity accounted interests in Genstar partnerships that develop residential real estate properties in Ontario, Western Canada, and the United States. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Stellarton, Canada.

Empire Company Limited trades as EMLAF on OTC. The company is classified in Consumer Defensive / Grocery Stores and reports in USD.

The current profile places the business in Grocery Stores. This section is intended to summarize the operating segments, products, geographies, and main revenue lines from official filings.

Latest available fiscal data shows $31.28B of revenue and $700.00M of net income.

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Empire Company Limited can be compared against peers such as BIM Birlesik Magazalar A.S., Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. de C.V., Jerónimo Martins, SGPS, S.A., J Sainsbury plc, Kikkoman Corporation, Kesko Oyj.

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Current signals to investigate include market capitalization of $8.16B, beta of 0.34, and return on equity of +12.9%.

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EMLAF currently shows total debt of $7.46B and beta of 0.34. Missing data should be treated as a research gap, not as low risk.

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Company website: https://www.empireco.ca

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