ParknShop
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| Supermarket | |
| Industry | Retailing |
| Founded | 1973 |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong |
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Number of locations
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300 stores (2015) |
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Area served
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Hong Kong Mainland China Macau |
| Owner | A.S. Watson Group |
| Parent | Hutchison Whampoa Limited |
| Website | http://www.parknshop.com/ |
PARKnSHOP (Chinese: 百佳; pinyin: Bǎijiā) is one of the two largest supermarket chains in Hong Kong, the other being Wellcome. PARKnSHOP operates more than 300 outlets in Hong Kong, Macau, and Mainland China.
The first PARKnSHOP store opened in Stanley, Hong Kong in 1973. For a decade the store remained a local retailer until the mid-1980s when it began to expand outside Hong Kong.
PARKnSHOP is a member of the A.S. Watson Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa Limited.
PARKnSHOP has more than 300 stores and 9,000 employees in Hong Kong. PARKnSHOP opened the first Superstore in Hong Kong in 1996 in Whampoa Garden Phase 12 with a floor space of 4,200 m². The first ParknShop Megastore opened in 2002 in Metro City Tseung Kwan O with a floor space of 6,700 m².
A.S. Watson Group also operates a number of supermarkets under different brand names that target higher-income consumers. There is one Great supermarket located at Pacific Place, one Gourmet supermarket at Leighton Centre (Causeway Bay), and Taste supermarkets at Festival Walk (Kowloon Tong), Citygate (Tung Chung), Stanley Plaza (Stanley), Hopewell Centre (Wan Chai), East Point City (Hang Hau, Tseung Kwan O), Maritime Square (Tsing Yi), Olympian City 2 (Tai Kok Tsui), Metroplaza (Kwai Fong, Kwai Chung) and TMTplaza (Tuen Mun). In 2007, another brand, International by PARKnSHOP, was introduced at Happy Valley, Hong Lok Yuen, United Centre at Admiralty and Cyberport which specializes in organic foods.
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