Wegmans Food Markets
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| Private Family business |
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| Industry | Grocery |
| Founded | 1916 (as Rochester Fruit and Vegetable Company) Rochester, New York, U.S. |
| Founder | Robert Koppel |
| Headquarters | Rochester, New York, U.S. |
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Number of locations
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92 stores (2017) |
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Area served
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Mid-Atlantic states, New England |
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Key people
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Danny Wegman (CEO) Colleen Wegman, President |
| Revenue |
 $7 billion (2013) |
| Owner | Danny Wegman |
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Number of employees
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58,000+ (2013) |
| Website | www |
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a privately held American regional supermarket chain headquartered in Gates, New York, near Rochester. Wegmans has 92 stores in the mid-Atlantic and New England regions, in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Virginia. Founded in 1916 in Rochester, Wegmans has appeared on Fortune's annual "100 Best Companies to Work For" list since the list first appeared in 1998, and has ranked among the top 10 for eight consecutive years. In 2017, the company celebrated 20 years on the list, and has been ranked #2, behind Google.
Wegmans is a privately owned company, founded in 1916 by John and Walter Wegman as the Rochester Fruit and Vegetable Company. Wegmans is headquartered in the Rochester suburb of Gates. Danny Wegman is the CEO. His daughter, Colleen Wegman, is president; his other daughter, Nicole Wegman, is vice-president of restaurant operations. His father, Robert, who died in 2006, was chairman. Robert was the son of co-founder Walter Wegman. During his life, Robert Wegman was a pioneer in the retail food business, as well as a generous donor to educational institutions and other charities.
In 1968, the chain expanded beyond the Rochester area, with a store in Syracuse, and again in 1977 with its first Buffalo store. The first store outside New York opened in 1993 in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the expansion continued into New Jersey in 1999,Virginia in 2004, and Maryland in 2005. As a part of the company's continued expansion efforts, Wegmans opened its fifth Maryland location in Columbia on June 17, 2012. Its sixth Maryland location opened in Crofton on October 28, 2012, followed by a Germantown location on September 15, 2013. Wegmans opened a store at the Montgomery Mall in North Wales, Pennsylvania, on November 3, 2013, the first store to be part of a shopping mall since the closing of the Midtown Plaza store in Rochester.
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