What city is home to Publix Super Markets headquarters?”
Publix Super Markets, Inc. (commonly known as Publix) is an American supermarket chain based in Lakeland, Florida. Founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, it is an employee-owned, privately held corporation and was ranked No. 9 on Forbes’ 2009 list of America’s Largest Private Companies and is the largest in Florida.[3] The company’s first half of 2009 sales totaled US$12.4 billion, with profits of over $622.3 million,[2] ranking #101 on Fortune magazine’s Fortune 500 list of U.S. companies for 2009. Supermarket News ranked Publix No. 7 in the 2009 “Top 75 North American Food Retailers” based on 2008 fiscal year sales.[4] Based on 2006 revenue, Publix is the fifteenth-largest retailer in the United States.[5] Publix has operations in five states: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama. It employs over 140,500 people at its 1,029 retail locations, cooking schools, corporate offices, eight grocery distribution centers, and nine Publix brand manufacturing facilities which
