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Whole Foods Market, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon, is an American multinational supermarket chain headquartered in Austin, Texas, which sells products free from hydrogenated fats and artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives.
- Whole Food Company
- Wellspring Grocery
- Bread & Circus
- Mrs. Gooch's
- Fresh Fields
- Bread of Life
- Amrion
- Merchant of Vino
- Allegro Coffee
- Wholepeople.Com
Whole Food Company (WFC) opened its doors in New Orleans in October 1974. Its mission was to be a grocery store featuring good, wholesome food; not a "health food" store filled with pills and potions. Sales doubled each year for the first four years. By 1978, the store (only 1100 square feet) was doing more than $1 million per year. Success was fue...
Wellspring Grocery opened its doors in 1981, after three years of planning and preparation. Owners Lex and Anne Alexander led a team of home-grown, energetic workers who set out to change the way the Triangle community of North Carolina (Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill) shopped for food. The idea was to offer high quality and great nutrition, and t...
Anthony and Susan Harnett purchased the first Bread & Circus store in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1975. The first Bread & Circus sold natural foods and wooden toys, hence the unusual name. New stores opened in Cambridge (1979) and Wellesley (1980). In 1983, Bread & Circus challenged itself by expanding into Hadley, Massachusetts, located 100 miles ...
Sandy Gooch, a homemaker and former grade school teacher, became interested in natural foods after suffering severe allergic reactions to antibiotics and chemical additives in food. She joined forces with Dan Volland, who operated three health food stores, to open the first Mrs. Gooch's Natural Foods Market in West Los Angeles in January 1977. With...
Fresh Fields can be considered part of the "second generation" of natural food supermarket companies. Whereas all of the other companies that have become part of the Whole Foods Market family were started in the 1970's and early 1980's, Fresh Fields opened its first store in May of 1991 in Rockville, MD. The first store was very successful which le...
In 1980, Julie and Richie Gerber, organic farmers from Maine, moved to Florida and purchased a natural food store in Ft. Lauderdale called the Bread of Life. With 1300 square feet, the store housed natural food products as well as a small juice bar. In 1985, they expanded to a 3,000 square foot building with a full service restaurant and kitchen. I...
Amrion was founded in Boulder, Colorado on August 18, 1987 by father and son team Henry and Mark Crossen, originally under the name of Bioenergy Nutrients, Inc. In 1989, the company went public and in 1993, the name was changed to Amrion, Inc. Over the years, Amrion expanded their channels of distribution to include: HealthSmart Vitamins (sales to ...
Merchant of Vino was founded by Ed and Juliette Jonna in 1974. Located in the Detroit area, they established an excellent reputation in wine retailing. Over the years they began to pick up more and more gourmet and natural food items to complement their strong wine business. Produce, meat/seafood, and prepared foods were added as well as nutrition ...
Allegro Coffee Company was founded by brothers Jeff and Roger Cohn. Coming from a family coffee tradition, they realized the growing consumer demand for fresh-roasted, high-quality coffee and, in 1977, opened the Brewing Market-a specialty coffee business in Boulder, Colorado. In just a few years, Brewing Market grew to include two retail stores an...
Whole Foods Market began seriously discussing the on-line sale of our products in 1997, when ecommerce was viewed as an intriguing yet risky venture. While our corporate web site continued to evolve into an information-rich site, research on the viability of opening a new "store" on the site proceeded behind the scenes. Development of our "virtual"...
May 2, 2019 · Whole Foods. On January 23, 1992, Whole Foods went public at a price of $2.125 per share. At the time, the chain had 12 stores across Texas, California, North Carolina and Louisiana. That...
Jun 28, 2021 · In 2017, Amazon entered the grocery business by tossing Whole Foods in its shopping cart. Amazon spent more than $13 billion to buy this 40-year-old supermarket chain known for its organic ...
Jun 1, 2024 · Whole Foods Market, largest American chain of supermarkets that specializes in natural and organic foods. It operates stores in the United States and also in Canada and the United Kingdom. In 2017 Whole Foods was acquired by Amazon.com. Learn more about the chain.
Jun 16, 2017 · Led by co-founder John Mackey, Whole Foods Market quickly grew from a small store in Austin, Tex., to the largest natural-foods supermarket chain in the United States.
Mar 21, 2018 · In 2017 the US retail giant Amazon spent nearly $14 billion to acquire the Whole Foods Market grocery chain. What are the motivations behind this acquisition and who will be the winners and...
