Pete Luckett
| Pete Luckett | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1953 (age 63–64) Nottingham, England |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, media personality |
Pete Luckett (born 1953) is a British-Canadian entrepreneur and media personality known as a culinary fruit and vegetable expert. A native of Nottingham, England, Luckett emigrated to Canada in 1979, settling in Saint John, New Brunswick. In the early 1990s, he moved from Saint John to Bedford, Nova Scotia and currently makes his home in Gaspereau, Nova Scotia.
Luckett became widely known in the Maritimes for his Pete's Fine Foods (ex-Pete's Frootique) specialty grocery stores. The first Pete's Frootique store opened in 1981 at the Saint John City Market. This is now ran under Pete's nephew and his partner. This was followed by a second store that opened on Mountain Road in Moncton. In 1992, the third Pete's Frootique store opened at the Sunnyside Mall in Bedford. In 2004, the fourth Pete's Frootique store opened on Dresden Row in downtown Halifax, and the fifth Pete's Frootique opened in Wolfville in 2012. On March 27, 2015 Pete's announced that the Wolfville location will close at the end of May 2015. A press release indicated that the Wolfville store was unable to attract enough local customers to become profitable. A similar business has since reopened at the same location.
The Pete's Fine Foods stores are all different in scale. The Bedford store is the most expansive and up-scale as it houses the following operating divisions: a power juice bar, a gourmet fruit and gift basket shop, a European delicatessen, a gourmet butcher and fish shop, a British specialty food emporium named Best of Britain, plus a wine shop.
In October 2015, Luckett announced that the national grocery chain Sobeys would be entering into an agreement to purchase the Pete’s Fine Foods grocery retail and wholesale business.
In 2010, Luckett opened Luckett Vineyards in Gaspereau Valley, Nova Scotia. He also operates a farm that supplies vegetables and fruit to his stores, as well as commercial customers such as restaurants and caterers.
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