The German discounter will sell the grocery company, its banners and 170 stores to a consortium of investors led by C&S Wholesale Grocers and the head of Southeastern Grocers.

A group of investors led by the CEO of Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers has bought nearly 170 Winn-Dixie and Harveys stores from Aldi.

A consortium of private investors, including SEG’s longstanding supply chain partner, C&S, acquired the Southeastern Grocers business from ALDI; Anthony Hucker, will serve as Chair, CEO and President.

Some Winn-Dixie stores across the southeast will soon have a new owner. Winn-Dixie’s parent company, Southeastern Grocers, has announced new ownership for many of its stores. A group including supply chain partner C&S Wholesale Grocers and private investors led by Southeastern Grocers CEO and President Anthony Hucker are buying 170 stores back from

The consortium will immediately take over the day-to-day operations of Winn-Dixie grocery and liquor stores, as well as Harveys Supermarket. Some locations will be converted to ALDI stores through 2027, as previously agreed.

Multiple Winn Dixie stores are being sold again after they were previously purchased by Aldi. RELATED: Aldi to buy Winn-Dixie, Harveys in Southern grocery store shakeup Officials said the Winn-Dixie locations,

After less than a year under the ownership of Aldi, Florida-based supermarket chain Winn-Dixie is being sold again, its parent company announced Friday.

The company established its headquarters in Jacksonville in 1944 and was named Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. in 1955.

A group led by C&S Wholesale Grocers is closing in on a deal to buy nearly 350 Winn-Dixie grocery and liquor stores from German discount chain Aldi's U.S. unit, according to people familiar with the matter.

Less than a year after it closed a deal with Southeastern Grocers to buy all of its Winn-Dixie and Harveys locations, Aldi said Friday it will sell about 170 of the supermarkets to a group of private investors.