Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. is a 65-store US regional supermarket chain with stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Virginia. The family-owned company, founded in 1916, is headquartered in Rochester, New York.
Wegmans has been named one of the Top 100 Companies to Work for in America by Fortune Magazine for the last several years. Danny Wegman is president. Robert Wegman, his father, is chairman.
Other facts about the company are:
2002 annual sales of $3.02 Billion
35th on the 2003 Supermarket News list of the Top 75 Supermarkets based on sales volume; ranked 7th among privately held U.S. supermarkets
On Forbes' annual list of the “400 Largest Private Companies in the U.S.,” Wegmans ranks among the top 100 companies.
Wegmans operates 65 stores: 52 in New York State, 10 in Pennsylvania, and 3 in New Jersey. The company has announced plans for stores in Virginia and Maryland.
In its home metropolitan area of Rochester, it operates 20 stores, followed by 12 in the Buffalo metro area and 10 in the Syracuse metro area. This accounts for 42 of its 65 stores.
Wegmans employs over 30,000 people.
The #1 company to work for in Fortune Magazine's "Best Companies to Work For" in 2005.
The Institute of Optics of the University of Rochester is ranked number one in the country, and the Rochester Institute of Technology has one of the best imaging science departments in the country.
Rochester is also home to regional businesses such as Frontier Telephone of Rochester, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., Roberts Communications, Inc., The Sutherland Group, PAETEC Communications and major fashion label Hickey-Freeman.
The area takes the most pride in the Wegmans Grocery store chain, which now has locations throughout the Northeast and Northern Virginia, and was recently rated the best company in America to work for by Forbes Magazine.
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