5 Largest Employee Owned Companies in the World

1. Publix Supermarkets

Total number of employees in 2019: 207,000

Topping the list of the 5 largest employee owned companies in the world is Publix Supermarkets, which is based in the USA. The company is 90 years old and is headquartered in Florida. Throughout the decades, the company has continued to be owned by members of the Jenkin family, who were the founders as well as past and present employees of the company too. The company has over 1,200 locations across the US and is the only employee owned company to have more than 200,000 employees. The company is one of the 100 biggest companies in the US regardless of ownership or industry, and is one of the biggest private companies in the US as well, surpassing most of those which are not owned by employees. Publix had revenues of over $38.1 billion in 2019 with a net income exceeding $3 billion. It is one of the very few companies which have been named in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For every year since its inception 22 years ago in 1998.

See also: 11 companies with the most employees in US and 15 largest private employers in the world

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