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Whole Foods Market

Austin, United States · Founded 1980

Whole Foods Market was founded in 1980 by John Mackey, and is based in Austin, United States.

Key facts

Legal form
joint-stock company
Employees
91,000
Parent
Amazon
Listed
Nasdaq

About

American supermarket chain specializing in natural and organic foods

Founder

In context

We hold 9 other food industry companies founded in the 1980s. None has a closure on record yet.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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