Private company

Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc. (Milwaukee)

American supermarket chain

Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc. is an American supermarket operator. It owns and operates stores under the names of Pick 'n Save, Metro Market, and Mariano's Fresh Market. The chain is a subsidiary of Kroger.3 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1872Founded1
  • Industrygrocery store1
  • HeadquartersMilwaukee1
  • Websitewww.roundys.com
  • Listed onNew York Stock Exchange1
  • Incorporated inDE4
  • Business address875 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wi 532024
  • Filer categoryAccelerated filer4

Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc. is an American supermarket operator. It owns and operates stores under the names of Pick 'n Save, Metro Market, and Mariano's Fresh Market. The chain is a subsidiary of Kroger. Roundy's operates 149 supermarkets and 107 pharmacies throughout the states of Wisconsin and Illinois. Based on fiscal year 2012 sales, Roundy's was the 37th largest grocery store chain and the 89th largest retailer in the United States. As of December 2015, Roundy's became a subsidiary of Kroger of Cincinnati, Ohio.3

What it owns

What Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc. (Milwaukee) reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Property and equipment

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Property and equipment, before depreciation$854.2M6 Jan 3, 2015$808.6M6 Dec 28, 2013+5.6%
Accumulated depreciation$533.9M6 Jan 3, 2015$506.6M6 Dec 28, 2013+5.4%
Property and equipment, net$320.3M6 Jan 3, 2015$301.9M6 Dec 28, 2013+6.1%

Real estate and locations

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Stores1486 Jan 3, 20151637 Dec 28, 2013−9.2%

Investments

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Cash and cash equivalents$58.6M6 Jan 3, 2015$78.2M6 Dec 28, 2013−25.1%

Intangibles and goodwill

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Goodwill$297.5M6 Jan 3, 2015$577.5M6 Dec 28, 2013−48.5%
Accumulated amortization$24.1M6 Jan 3, 2015$24.5M6 Dec 28, 2013−1.9%

Inventory

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Inventory, total$275.5M6 Jan 3, 2015$268.3M6 Dec 28, 2013+2.7%

The story

The company was founded in 1872 in Milwaukee as Smith, Roundy & Co. by William E. Smith, Judson Roundy and Sidney Hauxhurst. In 1942, the company purchased Clark & Host coffee roasting company from Charles Clark.

Roundy's was a major warehouse distributor to non-company supermarkets, including IGA, but it moved out of the wholesale market to focus on retail.

Roundy's was taken private in 2002 through purchase by the Chicago private-equity firm Willis Stein & Partners.

Roundy's took the company public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2012, posting an initial share price of $8.50 per share.

Beginning in 2002, the CEO of the corporation was Robert "Chairman Bob" Mariano, who had been the CEO of Dominick's prior to Dominick's sale to Safeway in 1998.

On December 2, 2013, Roundy's and Mariano announced it would purchase 11 Dominick's stores to rebrand them as Mariano's, after Safeway finished closing the chain early in 2014.

On November 11, 2015, Roundy's announced its sale to Kroger, a deal valued at $800 million including debt, which was completed on December 18, 2015. Following completion of the sale, Roundy's retained its headquarters in Milwaukee. It was suggested that Kroger primarily was interested in the Mariano's division, which allowed Kroger to enter the Chicago market for the first time. Underlining this, Kroger normally doesn’t acquire chains in financial difficulty; the Roundy's divisions in Wisconsin had been, and continue to be, in decline.

The sale of Roundy's to Cincinnati-based Kroger, about two years after Safeway shut down its Chicago-based Dominick's supermarket chain, selling many of the stores to other operators, was a matter discussed in the regional business press.

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CEO Bob Mariano retired on September 1, 2016.

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Leadership

Who has led Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc. (Milwaukee), and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Board members and other officers (16)

Products and brands

  • bakery

Listed on Wikidata.1

Roundy's includes three front-facing brands and one former brand while Roundy's is used mainly as a private label brand.

Pick 'n Save stores are warehouse food store concept in 1975, but over time with the decline of former competitor Kohl's Food Stores under its A&P ownership and major changes to Piggly Wiggly, now operates as a traditional supermarket chain.

Metro Market, a smaller-store concept, launched in 2004, prevalent in the Milwaukee and Madison markets, mainly competing with Sendik's, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods Market.

Mariano's Fresh Market, the same concept as Metro Market in the Chicago market; named for former Roundy's CEO "Chairman" Bob Mariano. Mariano's was launched in 2010.

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Copps Food Centers was acquired by Roundy's in 2001. Several attempts were made to convert those stores to the Pick 'n Save name under Roundy's ownership, which were generally unsuccessful and scattered due to customer sentiment against the rebranding. Kroger finally completed the rebranding of Copps locations to Pick 'n Save in 2017.

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Former names

  • Roundy's Parent Company, Inc.Dec 5, 2011 to Feb 3, 20124

Timeline

  1. Feb 7, 2012New chief executive Robert A. Mariano becomes CEO8
  2. 1872Founded Founded1

SEC filer profile

How Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc. (Milwaukee) is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARRoundy's, Inc.2
  • CIK0001536035
  • Employer ID (EIN)27-23379962
  • Filer statusAccelerated filer2
  • Incorporated inDelaware2
  • Fiscal year endsJanuary 32
  • Industry code (SIC)5411 Retail-Grocery Stores2
  • Business address875 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 532022
  • Phone414-231-50002
  • Shares outstanding49,380,998 as of Nov 2, 201527
  • Public float$209.7M as of Jun 28, 20146
  • On EDGAR sinceDec 5, 20112
  • Filings339 in all: 4 (179), 8-K (42), 3 (27), 10-Q (12), CORRESP (10), UPLOAD (7), 10-K (4), S-1/A (4)2
    All 39 form types

    ARS (3), DEF 14A (3), DEFA14A (3), EFFECT (3), SC 13D (3), SC 13D/A (3), SC 13G/A (3), SC 14D9 (3), 424B3 (2), 424B7 (2), 5 (2), FWP (2), S-8 (2), S-8 POS (2), SC 14D9/A (2), 15-12B (1), 25-NSE (1), 424B4 (1), 8-A12B (1), 8-K/A (1), CERTNYS (1), POS AM (1), POS EX (1), S-1 (1), S-1MEF (1), S-3 (1), S-3/A (1), SC 13G (1), SC TO-C (1), SC TO-T (1), SC TO-T/A (1)

  • Latest filingsAnnual report (10-K) Mar 13, 2015
    Quarterly report (10-Q) Nov 12, 2015
    Proxy statement (DEF 14A) Apr 2, 2015
    Latest 8-K (8-K) Dec 18, 2015

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