David Greig was initially a grocery store that grew to become one of the burgeoning supermarket chains in the United Kingdom. The original business was founded by the Greig family of Hornsey, North London. During the seventies, the business was first purchased by Wrensons, a Midlands-based grocery chain before the combined group took on the David Greig name. The combined company was purchased by British food conglomerate Fitch Lovell and was eventually merged into the group's supermarket chain Key Markets.[1]
The original David Greig company
The David Greig chain is considered to have been established in 1870, when the wife of a Hornsey cabinet maker of Scots birth, Mary Greig opened a small provisions shop at 32 High Street, Hornsey.[2][3][4] By 1881 her son David Greig had joined her in the business and described himself as a 'provision dealer' in the census of that year.[2]