NTUC FairPrice
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| Supermarket, Co-Operative | |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Headquarters | Singapore |
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Key people
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Bobby Chin, Chairman |
| Products | alcoholic beverages, bakery, clothing, dairy, deli, frozen foods, general grocery, general merchandise, meat & poultry, pharmacy, produce, seafood, snacks, |
| Parent | NTUC |
| Website | http://www.fairprice.com.sg/ |
NTUC FairPrice Co-Operative (Chinese: 新加坡职工总会平价合作社, Tamil: NTUC FairPrice கூட்டுறவு, Malay: Syarikat-koperasi NTUC FairPrice) is a supermarket chain based in Singapore and the largest in the country. The company is a co-operative of the National Trades Union Congress or NTUC. The group has 100 supermarkets across the island, with over 50 outlets of Cheers convenience stores island-wide.
NTUC FairPrice has partnered with ExxonMobil to run several stations with a FairPrice branding at the minimarts at their stations. The supermarket has a slogan known as Singapore's very own.
NTUC FairPrice was first established in 1973 as NTUC Welcome Supermarket in Toa Payoh, to solve the rising oil and daily prices then due to inflation. Then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew opened the first supermarket at Block 192, Toa Payoh Lorong 4, and it was the first of its kind. Around the same time, other unions such as the Singapore Industrial Labour Organisation and Pioneer Industries Employees Union also set up co-operatives to run supermarkets. The two organisations later merged in the early 1980s to form the Singapore Employees Co-operative (SEC).
In May 1983, due to competition, NTUC Welcome and SEC merged to form a larger co-operative which was known as NTUC FairPrice Co-Operative Limited.
The company started a central-distribution system to change the way goods were delivered to stores, to enhance efficiency. This was owned by another company, but in 1998, FairPrice took full ownership of the warehouse and distribution company. It was renamed Grocery Logistics of Singapore (GLS). In 2003, FairPrice opened a new 13,000-square-metre Fresh Food Distribution Centre. The refrigerated-distribution facility centralises the distributions of fresh and chilled products to all the outlets in the chain. It is the first supermarket retailer in Singapore to build, own and operate its own fresh-food distribution centre.
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