{"id":8515,"date":"2017-01-09T08:48:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=8515"},"modified":"2017-01-09T08:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:48:05","slug":"csg-snapshot-fresh-thyme-farmers-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/01\/csg-snapshot-fresh-thyme-farmers-market\/","title":{"rendered":"CSG Snapshot: Fresh Thyme Farmers Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-87-supermarket-grocery-retailers-convenience-store-leads.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/glance_freshthyme_2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2650 Warrenville Rd<br \/>\nDowners Grove IL 60515<br \/>\n(331) 251-7100<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freshthyme.com\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nwww.freshthyme.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Stores<\/strong><br \/>\n48<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Sales<\/strong><br \/>\n$720 million (e)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Founded<\/strong><br \/>\n2012<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trading Areas<\/strong><br \/>\nIA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, NE, OH, WI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senior Executives<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident + CEO: Chris Sherrell<br \/>\nCFO: Steve Shoemaker<br \/>\nVP Operations: Dave Bernier<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #3a64ae;\">SNAP<\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\">FORWARD<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Serving the Midwest, <strong>Fresh Thyme Farmers Market<\/strong> plans to open 20 new locations in 2017 to follow up its efforts in 2016, a year in which it also opened 20 stores. Its (growing) selection of private-label goods and pricing have more in common with Trader Joe\u2019s than Whole Foods, the other point of comparison for any banner in the natural and organic grocery market. Although both companies are extremely reticent to discuss the exact nature of the investment, <strong>Meijer Inc.<\/strong> does in fact own a majority Fresh Thyme, which means the 5-year-old chain headed by former <strong>Sprouts<\/strong> CEO Chris Sherrell has the deep pockets needed to continue on its current growth trajectory.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/email\/freshthyme_snapshot2017.jpg\" alt=\"fresh thyme\" width=\"454\" \/><br \/>\nSource: <strong>Chain Store Guide<\/strong> <em>Database of Supermarket, Grocery &amp; Convenience Store Chains<\/em>. *Projections based on company statements. Actual figures are subject to change. This data is not intended for investment decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2650 Warrenville Rd Downers Grove IL 60515 (331) 251-7100 www.freshthyme.com Total Stores 48 Total Sales $720 million (e) Year Founded 2012 Trading Areas IA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, NE, OH, WI Senior Executives President + CEO: Chris Sherrell CFO: Steve Shoemaker VP Operations: Dave Bernier SNAPFORWARD Serving the Midwest, Fresh Thyme Farmers Market&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2017\/01\/csg-snapshot-fresh-thyme-farmers-market\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CSG Snapshot: Fresh Thyme Farmers Market<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-8515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grocery-convenience","tag-snapshot","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}