Business description: Empire Company Limited

Empire Company Limited is a Canadian company, which is engaged in the business of food retailing, through wholly owned subsidiary Sobeys Inc. (Sobeys), and related real estate. The Company's segments include Food retailing, and Investments and other operations. Sobeys owns, affiliates or franchises more than 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces under retail banners that include Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy, Longo's and Lawtons Drugs, operates grocery e-commerce under the banners Voila, Voila par IGA and ThriftyFoods.com, and operates and/or supplies more than 350 retail fuel locations. Investments and other operations segment consists of investments in Crombie REIT, real estate partnerships and various other corporate operations. Crombie REIT is focused on owning, operating and developing a portfolio of grocery and pharmacy-anchored shopping centers, freestanding stores and mixed-use developments primarily in Canada's urban and suburban markets.

Number of employees: 129,000

Sales by Activity: Empire Company Limited

Fiscal Period: May 2021 (CAD) 2022 (CAD) 2023 (CAD) 2024 (CAD) 2025 (CAD)

Food Retailing

28.27B 30.16B 30.48B 30.73B 31.28B

Executive Committee: Empire Company Limited

Manager TitleAgeSince
Chief Executive Officer - 2025-11-04
Director of Finance/CFO - 2025-04-30
Director of Finance/CFO 62 2016-07-07
Corporate Officer/Principal - 2026-02-19
Corporate Officer/Principal - -

Composition of the Board of Directors: Empire Company Limited

Director TitleAgeSince
Director/Board Member 71 2000-12-31
Director/Board Member 69 1992-12-31
Director/Board Member 59 1997-12-31
Director/Board Member 73 2006-12-31
Director/Board Member 65 2011-12-31
Director/Board Member 62 2012-12-31
Director/Board Member 69 2014-12-31
Chairman 68 2016-09-30
Director/Board Member 73 2016-05-31
Director/Board Member 64 2016-12-31

Shareholders: Empire Company Limited

NameEquities%Valuation
1.061 %
1,363,985 1.061 % 49 M $
0.7216 %
927,393 0.7216 % 33 M $
Sjunde AP-fonden
0.5171 %
664,601 0.5171 % 24 M $
0.435 %
559,064 0.435 % 20 M $
0.427 %
548,742 0.427 % 20 M $
NameEquities%Valuation
33.24 %
32,620,457 33.24 % 1 169 M $
Dunvegan Holdings Ltd.
31.3 %
30,720,071 31.3 % 1 101 M $
30.14 %
29,582,564 30.14 % 1 060 M $
3.185 %
3,125,400 3.185 % 112 M $
3.092 %
3,034,539 3.092 % 109 M $

Holdings: Empire Company Limited

NameEquities%Valuation
909,090 0.82% 10 M $

Company details: Empire Company Limited

Empire Co. Ltd.

115 King Street

B0K 1S0, Stellarton

+902 752 8371

http://www.empireco.ca
address Empire Company Limited(EMP.A)

Group companies: Empire Company Limited

NameCategory and Sector
Food Distributors
Investment Managers
Food Retail
Food Retail

Other Food Retail & Distribution

Change 5d. change 1-year change 3-years change Capi.($)
-0.29%-5.17%-1.04%+30.41% 7.77B
+0.26%+1.87%+31.72%+152.11% 993B
-1.32%-4.85%+16.95%+94.80% 52.48B
-0.61%-1.61%+21.18%+34.10% 42.51B
-0.76%-7.36%-2.53%+44.33% 41.67B
-2.97%-2.15%+39.73%+75.26% 41.42B
+1.08%+1.13%+3.10%+0.80% 35.08B
-0.24%+0.16%+17.27%-5.12% 32.05B
-0.15%-10.94%+26.15%+93.86% 29.86B
-0.49%-3.33%+15.22%+60.80% 26.48B
Average -0.47%-2.83%+16.78%+58.14% 130.24B
Weighted average by Cap. -0.00%-2.04%+28.16%+128.20%
Trader
Investor
Global
Quality
ESG MSCI
BBB
Sell
Consensus
Buy
Mean consensus
HOLD
Number of Analysts
8
Last Close Price
47.61CAD
Average target price
52.12CAD
Spread / Average Target
+9.48%

Quarterly revenue - Rate of surprise

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