Top Food & Beverage Stores Companies

Wawa, Inc., a privately held company, began in 1803 as an iron foundry in New Jersey. Toward the end of the 19th Century, owner George Wood took an interest in dairy farming and the family began a small processing plant in Wawa, Pa, in 1902. The milk business was a huge success, due to its quality, cleanliness and “certified” process. As home delivery of milk declined in the early 1960s, Grahame Wood, George’s grandson, opened the first Wawa Food Market in 1964 as an outlet for dairy products. Today, Wawa is your all day, every day stop for fresh, built-to-order foods, beverages, coffee, fuel services, and surcharge-free ATMs. A chain of more than 950 convenience retail stores (over 750 offering gasoline), Wawa stores are located in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, and Washington, D.C.

Founded in 1954, Lowes Foods employs approximately 9,000 people and operates nearly 100 full-service supermarkets in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Locally owned and operated, Lowes Foods is truly a homegrown company committed to bringing community back to the table, by providing customers with the freshest and most innovative local products from local suppliers. The company maintains a strong focus on exceptional attention to our guests, with services like Lowes Foods-To-Go personal shopping and gas rewards discounts. To learn more, visit lowesfoods.com or follow Lowes Foods on Facebook or Twitter. Lowes Foods, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alex Lee, Inc.

Nothing Bundt Cakes was founded in Las Vegas in 1997 by friends Dena Tripp and Debbie Shwetz who had a vision that their homemade cakes should be shared with others. Our bakeries feature handcrafted Bundt Cakes made with the finest ingredients and available in a variety of sizes and classic flavors. We have more than 300 corporate and franchised bakeries in 40 U.S. states and Canada. Of the 300+ current Nothing Bundt Cakes bakeries, more than 90% are female-owned. We love what we do! Our brand purpose is to spread joy every day because we believe that real smiles are contagious!

Godiva is broadly recognized as the worldwide leader in super premium chocolates, with over 600 retail stores, 40.000 points of sale and over 800 Travel retail points, and in more than 80 countries. Godiva chocolates known for unique recipes of rich chocolate and fillings, delivering unparalleled quality. It's Gold Ballotin Collection and seasonal packaging have earned Godiva a global reputation for design excellence. Godiva manufactures a broad portfolio of indulgent products. In an effort to build the year around relevance of the brand, Godiva has recently taken meaningful and successful steps to broaden its portfolio beyond chocolate gifting into the high growth, self-treat/self-consumption and home entertainment/sharing segments of the marketplace across the Globe. Godiva products are manufactured in Brussels, Belgium and Reading, Pennsylvania. The company has approximately 5,000 employees.

Are you ready to bring a little extraordinary into your life? At Nespresso, we blend vibrant people and products together to create careers that elevate coffee and your every day. Passion, innovation, respect, and the drive to do better every day are just some of the values that define Nespresso. We are emboldened to bring our team together as one and create new opportunities to grow and thrive. It’s just the beginning of how we transform lives with every cup. Together, we can inspire tasteful and meaningful living

It all started with a dream to create a really great cup of coffee personalized for you... Philz Coffee is a San Francisco-based coffee company that attracts people who are passionate - about life, about others, about the communities they live and work in...and about coffee!  Our core values: Obsess Over Customers We put people first by personalizing every drink to the customer's taste, crafting our coffee one cup at a time, and treating all experiences as opportunities to positively impact someone's day. In Pursuit of Better While we respect our history and traditions, we're always looking for ways to improve. That's why we launched a mobile Philz app, giving our customers a new way to pick up their Cup of Love. Be Kind and Keep it Real We are kind-hearted, positive, humble, and human. Be yourself. Be sincere. A genuine connection will outperform formality. We make sure that every Philz is a fun, creative and vibrant workplace. A spot where you can be yourself, dress the way you want, and have flexibility in your schedule to live your best life. Most importantly, you’ll be part of an environment dedicated to bettering people’s days and building community.

In the early 2000s, in Oakland, California, a slightly disaffected freelance musician and coffee lunatic, weary of the commercial coffee enterprise and stale, overly roasted beans, decided to open a roaster for people who were clamoring for the actual taste of fresh coffee. Using a minuscule six-pound batch roaster, he made a historic vow: “I will only sell coffee less than 48 hours out of the roaster to my guests, so they may enjoy coffee at peak flavor. I will only use the finest, most delicious, and responsibly sourced beans.” In honor of Kolshitsky’s heroics, he named his business Blue Bottle Coffee and began another chapter in the history of superlative coffee. Now, more than fifteen years later, and thanks to the enthusiastic support of many loyal guests, Blue Bottle Coffee has grown to a network of cafes across the U.S., Japan, and Korea. We are still united by the simple purpose of getting great coffee to everyone who asks for it. We have gotten even more specific about freshness and peak flavor. Improbably and delightfully, there are hundreds of us now.

With annual sales of over $11 billion, Metro Inc. (TSX: MRU) was founded in 1947 and operates in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Along with its affiliates and franchisees, Metro Inc. employs over 65,000 people, whose mission is to satisfy their customers every day and earn their-long term loyalty. Metro Inc. operates a network of almost 600 food stores under several banners including Metro, Metro Plus, Super C and Food Basics, as well as over 250 drugstores under the Brunet, The Pharmacy and Drug Basics banners.

Ahold Delhaize is one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and eCommerce. Our family of great local brands serves more than 54 million customers each week in Europe, the United States and Indonesia. Our brands employ more than 410,000 associates and operate more than 6,700 grocery and specialty stores as well as online delivery and pickup. Together, we help people eat well, save time, and live better – it’s how we make a difference. And we do it because we care: for our customers, our people, and the world around us.