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- Puregold Price Club, Inc. (PGOLD; PGCMF) operates as one of the Philippines' leading supermarket chains, engaging in the wholesale and retail trading of consumer products including dry goods, food items, canned goods, housewares, toiletries, pharmaceuticals, and medical supplies. The company conducts its operations through multiple retail formats: hypermarkets under the Puregold Price Club brand offering a broad range of food and non-food products to retail customers and resellers; neighborhood supermarkets via Puregold Junior with a higher emphasis on food items; discounters through Puregold Extra in compact formats with select goods; minimarts; warehouse clubs under S&R Membership Shopping featuring bulk club packs of imported U.S. brand names; and quick-service restaurants under S&R New York Style Pizza. Complementary services include the Tindahan ni Aling Puring loyalty program for resellers, remittance operations via subsidiary Purepadala, Inc., and ownership interests in Entenso Equities, Inc. (holding Ayagold Retailers, Inc. and San Roque Supermarkets) as well as PPCI Subic, Inc.
Headquartered at No. 900 Romualdez Street, Paco, Manila, Philippines, Puregold Price Club, Inc. was incorporated on September 8, 1998, and opened its first hypermarket in Mandaluyong City that December. The company serves retail consumers, resellers, sari-sari stores, canteens, restaurants, caterers, bakeries, convenience outlets, and drug stores across Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao, operating 349 hypermarkets, 131 supermarkets, 30 extras, 36 minimarts, 29 S&R warehouse clubs, and 62 S&R quick-service restaurants as of end-2024, with expansion into 666 Puregold stores, 31 S&R warehouses, and 67 S&R QSRs by mid-2025.
In late 2024, Puregold acquired Puremart stores, including leasehold improvements, fixtures, equipment, and inventory valued at up to P567.5 million from related-party Tower 6789 Corp., bolstering its minimart portfolio with 120-130 locations in Metro Manila, Caloocan, Navotas, Valenzuela