MarCus Supermarkets

MarCus Supermarkets PLC (HSE:MRCS) is a Histalian multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer with a majority of it's stores in Histalpol. It is the largest retailer in Histalpol and fifth largest company in the HSE 100 Index behind banking, manufacturing and gas and oil industries, making it the largest service company in Histalpol. In 2013, MarCus started it's European branches by the buyout of Tesco Cattala in Cattala which was a failing company and the appearance of 5 MarCus Supermarkets in Ireland.

The company was founded during The Black Depression when Histalpol became isolationist and thoroughly encouraged the growth of businesses that were home-grown, MarCus was created by Lous Carrlenford mixing the first three letters of Market and the location of the first ever shop, on the outskirts of Custenpool, which started as just a grocery store. The store in Custenpool was opened in 1984 and his business rapidly expanded in the 1990s because of the isolation stopping the previous foreign markets from opening supermarkets in Histalpol, and by 1999, MarCus contained a chain of over 675 stores across the country. Originally MarCus started as just a grocery retailer, but since 2000 has increasingly diversified into areas such as books, clothing, electronic, furniture and software to name a few.

MarCus Supermarkets is listed on the Histalian Centre D'bourse and is a constituent of the HSE 100 Index. It has a market capitalisation of approximately Hh24 billion as of 20 March 2013, the 5th largest company with a primary listing on the Histalian Centre D'bourse.



Founding
The company was founded with the start of being a grocery store in Custenpool, Histalpol by Lous Carrlenford, the current CEO of MarCus Supermarkets. The company rapidly expanded in the 1990s under the isolationist politics of The Black Depression, being funded by government incentives to grow Histalian businesses. By the end of the 20th century, 675 stores were open across Histalpol and continued to explode in numbers.

Publicly traded company
MarCus Supermarkets were introduced to the Histalian Centre D'bourse in 2002 as it went over 1,000 stores to it's name. This movement made it a public limited company

Expansion into Europe
MarCus Supermarkets opened 5 branches inside of Ireland in 2010 as a first move to making MarCus Supermarkets multi-national.

In 2013, MarCus Supermarkets bought out the failing Tesco Cattala, losing in competition to Cooperativa. At the time it was the 2nd largest retailer in Cattala when it's 10 stores were bought out. All 10 stores were re-branded as MarCat (Market Cattala) and opened in 2014.

In late 2014, MarCus supermarkets recorded a large drop of net income and stock prices due to 2 years worth of food scandals leading to food being pulled off the shelves, mainly the Horsemeat Scandal as titled by Histalian news, the revelation that processed meat from outside of Histalpol was being used to transport drugs into the country and the then recent 2014 Taiwan food scandal that lead to imported food from Taiwan being taken off shelves. Among the fatalities of this drop of profit and stock prices are MarCus Ireland which Lous Carrlenford announced is close to entering administration, whime MarCus remains relatively stable and MarCat closes the gap towards Cooperativa in Cattala.