The Business
Stew Leonard's is not only the world's largest dairy store; it is also in the Guinness Book of World Records for having "the greatest sales per unit area of any single food store in the United States." It has been listed as one of Fortune magazine's "Top 100 Businesses to Work For" ten years in a row. It currently has annual sales of around $300 million and has about 2,000 employees. Stew Leonard's also claims "Hello, from over 3,000 dairy cows in Ellington, CT!" (their own farm) on its milk cartons.
The store has a clone in South Florida called Penn Dutch with locations in Hollywood and Margate. The owners of Penn Dutch visited Stew Leonard's to get merchandising ideas.
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