Lakeland / Florida / United States
Publix Super Market has grown into a Fortune 500 company with more than 870 stores. The grocery store chain is one of the fastest-growing, employee-owned companies in the United States. Also known as one of the 10 largest-volume supermarket chains in the nation, the company s retail sales reached nearly $20 billion in 2004. Publix offers pharmacy and photo development services along with food and other grocery store items. A privately held company operating stores in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee, George W. Jenkins founded Publix in Winter Haven, Fla., in 1930. Publix Super Market is headquartered in Lakeland, Fla.
