Whole Foods Market (WFM)
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In 1978, John Mackey and Renee Lawson opened a small natural food store called "SaferWay" in Austin, Texas; -
In 1980, Mackey cooperated with Craig Wheeler and Mark Schiller to merge SaferWay with another store, Clarksville Natural Grocery, and opened the first Whole Foods Market on September 20, 1980. The store area at that time was 1160 square meters, with 19 employees. Compared with the standards of other health food stores at that time, Whole Foods was a large store; -
Since 1984, Whole Foods Market has opened stores outside Austin, including Houston, Dallas, New Orleans and other cities, and acquired "The Whole Food Company" in 1988; -
In 1989, Whole Foods Market expanded to the west coast of the United States and opened a branch in Palo Alto, California; -
In the 1990s, Whole Foods Market successively acquired other natural food chain stores around the country and continued to expand its store network; -
1992, Whole Foods Market IPO , and listed on NASDAQ. This listing enabled the company to obtain a large amount of capital for acquisition and expansion. By the end of the year, the number of stores had expanded to 163; -
In 2001, the Manhattan branch in New York City was opened; -
In 2002, it opened a branch in Toronto, Canada; -
In 2004, Whole Foods Market formally entered the British market after acquiring seven "Fresh&Wild" supermarkets; -
In June 2007, the first Whole Foods Market in the UK was opened in Kensington High Street, London, with an area of 7400 square meters; -
In 2007, the Hawaiian branch of Whole Foods Market was officially opened; -
In 2010, the sales exceeded 10 billion dollars; -
On July 30, 2015, the performance of Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFM), a natural food and organic food retailer, in the third fiscal quarter was lower than expected, and its performance outlook was lowered. The bad news caused its stock price to plummet by 11% to $36.387 after hours, which also attracted analysts to collectively downgrade the stock rating. The company earned 43 cents per share in the third fiscal quarter, with quarterly revenue of 3.63 billion dollars. The company expects its earnings per share in the fourth fiscal quarter to be between 34 and 35 cents, and Wall Street analysts expect its earnings per share to be 38 cents; -
As of March 8, 2017, it has opened 460 direct stores worldwide; -
On April 24, 2017“ Financial Times ”Reporting, Albertsons Is working with bank The company conducts preliminary negotiation and intends to purchase Whole Foods Market Inc; -
On June 16, 2017, Amazon Announcing the acquisition of Whole Food with US $13.7 billion Amazon The largest acquisition in history. Hearing the news, Wal-Mart , Costco , Dollar Tree , Sprouts Farmers Market , Kroger Retailers fell 5-9 points in succession; -
On August 28, 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Supermarket Company; -
In 2018, after Sears Holdings Corporation filed for bankruptcy in October, Whole Foods Market announced that it might take over some vacant Sears and Kmart stores and renovate them; -
In November 2020, Whole Foods prohibited Canadian employees from wearing poppy flowers on the anniversary, which is a national commemorative symbol that Canadians wear on the anniversary. On November 6, 2020, the House of Commons of Canada unanimously passed a motion to "condemn Whole Foods and its owners Jeff Bezos It is forbidden for its employees to wear poppy flowers on their uniforms ".
Whole Foods Market (WFM) US equity investment
