Niemann Foods (NFI) is a company headquartered in Quincy, Illinois that owns and operates about 90 supermarkets, convenience, pet and hardware stores mostly under the County Market, County Market Express, Cub Foods, ACE Hardware, Pet Supplies Plus, Pick-A-Dilly and Save-A-Lot banners in Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. Niemann Foods' Save-A-Lot stores offer a limited assortment of groceries at discount prices while Cub Foods and Country Market are conventional grocery stores. The regional grocery store operator is battling for market share in the Midwest with Hy-Vee and supercenter operator Wal-Mart Stores. The employee-owned, family-run company was founded in 1917 by brothers Ferd and Steve Niemann and is currently headed by Rich Niemann.
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The company has its roots in 1917 when Ferd Niemann, Sr and Steve Niemann opened their first grocery store. Within a decade they would open and run 30 corner grocery shops. By 1940 they opened the first ever full-service supermarket to Quincy.