Heinen's

Heinen's

Company type	Private
Industry	Supermarket
Founded	1 January 1929 (1929-01-01) in Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Founder	Joe Heinen
Headquarters	Cleveland, Ohio , United States
Area served	Northeast Ohio, Chicago metropolitan area
Key people	Jeff Heinen, Tom Heinen (current leadership)
Products	Grocery
Website	www.heinens.com

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Heinen's is a family-run supermarket chain based in the United States, established in 1929. The company operates stores primarily in Northeast Ohio and the Chicago metropolitan area. Its origins trace back to Joe Heinen, a butcher who launched the initial store adjacent to his meat shop. Currently, leadership is maintained by his grandsons Jeff and Tom Heinen, alongside their children Kim, Kelsey, and Jake Heinen.

History

The inception of Heinen's dates to 1929 in Cleveland, Ohio, when Joe Heinen opened a modest butcher shop on Kinsman Road (now Chagrin Boulevard). After several years managing this business, he expanded by launching his first supermarket directly across from the original location in 1933.

Following two years of extensive market and supply chain analysis, Heinen's inaugurated its first location beyond the Greater Cleveland region on August 22, 2012. This store opened at The Shops at Flint Creek in Barrington, Illinois, a suburb near Chicago. At that time, the chain was serving customers across 18 suburban communities spanning Ohio and Illinois.

On December 21, 2012, it was revealed that Heinen's had entered into a preliminary agreement with the Village of Glenview, Illinois to establish a new store at the site previously occupied by a Dominick's supermarket that had shut down six years earlier in 2006. This Glenview location commenced operations on May 7, 2014. Additionally, early that year Heinen's finalized plans for new stores in Lake Bluff, Illinois and Bannockburn, Illinois.

In September of 2013, reports indicated that Heinen's was nearing completion of lease negotiations with the Geis Companies for a long-term lease of fifteen years within the Ameritrust Tower and Swetland Building, located at East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue in downtown Cleveland. The company had expressed interest in establishing a presence downtown for some time and had almost secured space in a major development along the east bank of the Cuyahoga River prior to the onset of the Great Recession in the United States. While acknowledging potential risks associated with this venture, company executives remained optimistic about continued population growth downtown enhancing the store’s customer base. This downtown Cleveland store opened its doors on February 25, 2015, occupying space across the first two floors of the Ameritrust Tower as well as the first floor of the adjacent Swetland Building.

Currently, Heinen's operates a total of twenty-three locations: nineteen within Ohio and four across Illinois.

External links

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• Overview of Heinen's Grocery Store Archived May 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
• Cleveland Clinic Heart Center Partners with Heinen's Grocery Store, October 17, 2005
• Heinen's Comments on Farm-to-Plate Tracking as Established Practice, Farm and Dairy, September 22, 2005