Servay Hypermarket

Servay & Parkwell are a hypermarket chain in Sabah & Sarawak.

History

The company history dated back to the year 1979 when Evergreen Trading (1979) was first setup. The first Servay Supermarket was established in the year 1990, becoming the first retail store with conceptual counter in East Malaysia. Over the years, there are more and more outlets were established to castes the public demands. The first supermarket opened was in Miri, Sarawak around 1990. Four years after that, they once again opened in the same region before expanding to Sabah in 1997. The first hypermarket built in Sabah and Sarawak at that time. Then they opened 4 outlets in from 1999 to 2001.

List of Supermarket & Hypermarket

Servay Hypermarket Penampang

It's the first Servay Hypermarket built in Sabah. The building was finished somewhere around September 1997 and it's the biggest hypermarket ever built in Penampang area at that time. Unfortunately the building was burned down during fire on 20 August 2008 [1].

The store was re-opened on 29 June 2010 with a slight change in interior and exterior design. The colour of the building also change from yellow to green. The building have two floors which are the ground and first floor. The ground floor displays the food, beverage, fresh market, cosmetics, body care, detergent, car accessories, hardware and household stuff. While the first floor displays clothing, shoes, bedding set, stationary, electric appliances, sporting equipment and toys.

Servay & Parkwell Hypermarket KK Plaza

This store is located at the basement of KK Plaza shopping mall which is located in the middle of Kota Kinabalu City, just behind the building of POS Malaysia and Bank Negara. The front side of this shopping mall is facing the Pasar Besar at Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens, Kota Kinabalu. Upon entering the mall, the Servay logo can be seen on the stairs that leading to the store. Servay Hypermarket KK Plaza only have one floor and all supermarket and departmental items are sold on the same floor. The store started business since January 2001 and it's open from 9.00a.m to 9.00p.m.

Servay & Parkwell Hypermarket Likas

Servay & Parkwell Hypermarket Likas is probably one of the Servay's store that have the most floor in their building, four of them to be exact. The store was opened on January 2003. It consist of supermarket, departmental store, IT department, restaurant cafe, food stall, telecommunication shop, music CD shop, bakery and pharmacy.

Servay Morsjaya

Servay Supermarket Morsjaya Miri is the first Servay Supermarket and was established in the year 1990.

Servay Jaya Kota Marudu

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View of the Servay Jaya Kota Marudu Block C (left) and Block D (right, with EG Mall / Servay Jaya signboard)

Servay Jaya Kota Marudu outlet opening consists of multiple stages. The first stage was overtaking an existing supermarket previously known as Kedai Su Chung and all the buildings in the vicinity. The total of buildings included in the takeover was four, two of them were still in construction at that time. All the buildings are identified by their block names. The two old buildings are Block A & B while the new ones are Block C & D. Block A have two floors. The ground floor was the supermarket and first floor was the office and store. Block A was closed at the end of February for a couple of days and re-opened in March 2015. Block B was mainly used as a store. The second stage was the opening of Block C which was regarded as the replacement for Block A. Block C was opened to public on the third quarter of June 2015. This new building also consist of two floors, same as Block A but not quite identical. Other than the supermarket section on the ground floor, Block C also introduced a new corner known as Hot Food section. The big difference between A & C is that Block C's first floor mostly sells clothing rather than being used as a store. The third stage consists closing down Block A & B and the opening of Block D. By the end of August 2015, the renovation for Block D was complete. Thus, it was opened early in September 2015. This building also consists of two floors. The ground floor is used as a selling floor for mainly household items, hardware, toys, gifts etc. The first floor is the replacement for Block B and act as the main store or warehouse.

Servay Jaya Kota Marudu is considered as the biggest Servay outlet so far with the size of land five or six times larger than Servay Hypermarket Penampang. They also have a big parking space which can hold 100 or more cars at a time.

See also

• List of hypermarkets in Malaysia

External links

• Official website