Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets 401(k) plan

Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc., Lakewood, CO. EIN 84-1444517. Annual reports 2009–2025.

Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Vitamin Cottage Employee 401(k) Plan, with 5,121 participants and $73.2 million in assets in 2025. Empower has been its recordkeeper since 2023. No traditional pension plan appears in Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 5,121
Plan assets: $73.2 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Empower
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Retail

The plan

Vitamin Cottage Employee 401(k) Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 84-1444517
Participants (2025): 5,121
Net assets (2025): $73.2 million
Recordkeeper: EmpowerEarlier: Fidelity (2009–2022)
Plan administrator: Vitamin Cottage Natural Food Markets, Inc.
12612 W Alameda Parkway
Lakewood, CO 80228
(303) 986-4600As filed for 2025
In effect since: January 1, 2000

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	5,121	$73.2 million	Empower
2024	4,972	$62.2 million	Empower
2023	5,530	$52.1 million	Empower
2022	4,636	$41.2 million	Fidelity
2021	4,725	$49.7 million	Fidelity
2020	5,033	$41.0 million	Fidelity
2019	4,176	$32.3 million	Fidelity
2018	4,067	$24.7 million	Fidelity
2017	3,823	$23.7 million	Fidelity
2016	3,543	$19.6 million	Fidelity
2015	3,235	$17.5 million	Fidelity
2014	2,660	$16.6 million	Fidelity
2013	2,271	$14.9 million	Fidelity
2012	1,816	$11.2 million	Fidelity
2011	1,509	$9.0 million	Fidelity
2010	1,288	$8.2 million	Fidelity
2009	1,131	$6.3 million	Fidelity

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Empower (empower.com), which runs the Vitamin Cottage Employee 401(k) Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((303) 986-4600). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

The plan

Vitamin Cottage Employee 401(k) Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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