History
The company was founded as a small grocery in Janesville, Wisconsin, by Willard Woodman, a meat cutter. Willard's sons Willard P. Woodman and Dan Woodman expanded the business into a chain of supermarkets serving medium-sized cities in the area. Beginning with their third Janesville location, they employed a big box format, and now build their stores as anchors to small retail complexes. In the 1990s, the company was sold to its employees via a stock sharing plan; Phil Woodman remains President and CEO.
Read more about this topic: Woodman's Food Market
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“Perhaps universal history is the history of the diverse intonation of some metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“False history gets made all day, any day,
the truth of the new is never on the news
False history gets written every day
...
the lesbian archaeologist watches herself
sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing,
asking the clay all questions but her own.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!”
—Camille Paglia (b. 1947)