(Reuters) - Canadian grocery chain Sobeys Inc, a unit of Empire Co Ltd (>> Empire Company Limited), said it would sell 30 stores for about C$430 million ($391.4 million).

The sale of the stores, all in western Canada, follow Sobeys' agreement with Canadian antitrust regulators related to its purchase of the Canadian assets of U.S. grocery group Safeway Inc (>> Safeway Inc.) for $5.7 billion last year.

Sobeys said it would sell 15 stores to Canadian supermarket chain Overwaitea Food Group and 14 stores to Federated Co-operatives Ltd.

Sobeys said it would sell one store to an undisclosed buyer.

The sales have been approved by the Canadian Competition Bureau. (http://r.reuters.com/wag86v)

($1 = 1.10 Canadian dollars)

(Corrects paragraph 1 to remove reference to Overwaitea. Corrects paragraph 3 to say that Sobeys will sell 15 stores to Overwaitea and 14 to Federated. Adds paragraph 4 to show one store will be sold to an undisclosed buyer)

(Reporting by Anannya Pramanick in Bangalore; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)

Stocks treated in this article : Safeway Inc., Empire Company Limited