Media advisory - Empire Company Limited Advisory of Fiscal 2015 Annual and Special General Meeting and Q1 Fiscal 2016 Results Conference Call

STELLARTON, NS, Aug. 27, 2015 /CNW/ - Empire Company Limited (TSX:EMP.A) will hold its Annual and Special General Meeting of Shareholders on Thursday, September 10, 2015, at Cineplex Cinemas, Aberdeen Mall, 612 East River Road, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.  The meeting is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Time).

Media

Please note that cameras will only be allowed in the main meeting room for the first five minutes. Marc Poulin, President & Chief Executive Officer, and Franҫois Vimard, Chief Financial & Administrative Officer, will be available to the media at the venue immediately following the meeting (approximately 11:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time).

Audiocast of AGM

The event will be available live on the internet via audiocast.  To access the audiocast, please visit our website at www.empireco.ca.  The audiocast will be archived and available on the Empire website following the event.

Q1 Fiscal 2016 Results Conference Call

Empire Company Limited will hold a conference call on Thursday, September 10, 2015, beginning at 11:30 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) during which senior management will discuss the Company's financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2016 ended August 1, 2015.

The dial-in numbers for the conference call are:
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To secure a line, please call 10 minutes prior to the conference call.  You will be placed on hold until the conference call begins.  The media and investing public may access this conference call via a listen mode only.  You may also listen to a live audiocast of the conference call by visiting the Company's website located at www.empireco.ca. 

Replay will be available until midnight, September 17, 2015, or on the Company's website for 90 days following the conference call. To access the archived conference call, please dial [phone] and enter passcode 23627656.

ABOUT EMPIRE

Empire Company Limited (TSX: EMP.A) is a Canadian company headquartered in Stellarton, Nova Scotia.  Empire's key businesses are food retailing and related real estate.  With $23.9 billion in sales and $11.5 billion in assets, Empire and its subsidiaries, franchisees and affiliates employ approximately 125,000 people.

SOURCE Empire Company Limited

Media Contact: Andrew Walker, Senior Vice President, Communications & Corporate Affairs, Sobeys Inc., [phone] ext. 6711; Investor Contact: Ken Chernin, Director, Investor Relations, Empire Company Limited, [phone] ext. 3409