About the Company
Wegmans Food Markets is a regional supermarket chain with 103 stores. This family-owned business founded in 1916 with headquartered in Rochester, NY. Walter and John Wegman opened the Rochester Fruit & Vegetable Company, which marks the beginning of Wegmans Food Markets. Presently, Wegmans is a big private company in the U.S having 50,000 employees and annual sales amounting $9.7 billion in 2019. The company that is regarded as employee-friendly firm renders $4.5 million in tuition assistance to employees each year. Atop, Wegmans has also awarded $115 million in scholarships to more than 36,500 employees since 1984 under its employee welfare program. The company ranked #3 on Fortune magazine’s 2020 list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For and on the list every year since 1998. In 2005, company ranked #1 in the 2019 Harris Poll Reputation Quotient® study of the ‘100 most-visible companies. Wegmans donated 18.6 million pounds of food to local food banks to feed the hungry.