Whole Foods Market

Introduction
Whole Foods Market, incorporated on August 15, 1980, is the world’s leading retailer of natural and organic foods and America’s first national “Certified Organic” grocer. Since 2012, Whole Foods Market operated 335 stores in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Depend on 2011 sales rankings from Progressive Grocer, Whole Foods Market became the largest retailer of natural and organic foods in the U.S. and the 11th largest food retailer overall. Today Whole Foods Market consists of 32000 employees and owns stores average 38,000 square feet in size and 10 years in age, and the scale of Whole Foods Market is continue growing through mergers, acquisitions and new store opening

According to the annual report (2012), Whole Foods Market claimed that “Our Company mission is to promote the vitality and well-being of all individuals by supplying the highest quality, most wholesome foods available. Since the purity of our food and the health of our bodies are directly related to the purity and health of their environment, our core mission is devoted to the promotion of organically grown foods, healthy eating, and the sustainability of our entire ecosystem.” Whole Foods Market also gives public following commitment:
 Sell the highest quality natural and organic products available
 Satisfy, delight and nourish customers
 Support team member happiness and excellence
 Create wealth through profits & growth
 Serve and support our local and global communities
 Practice and advance environmental stewardship
 Create ongoing Win-Win partnerships with suppliers
 Promote the health of our stakeholders through healthy eating education.

For the last 31 years, Whole Foods Market has brought significant influence in pr...

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...tore in the United States and Canada. For energy conservation and emission reduction, Whole Foods also has a good performance. It installs solar power generation equipment at the top of its supermarkets in order to save more energy.
 Whole Foods also performs discretionary responsibility, Whole Foods has given financial support to upstream suppliers. In 2005, Whole Foods initiated the Whole Planet Foundation, a non-profit organization, to provide opportunities for farmer in developing countries to work hard to get rich. The operational funds came from Whole Foods’s sales and donation of customers. So far the organization had provided more than 12 millions dollars to more than 20 countries(5). Moreover, Whole Foods also encourage employees participate in community development, they have given well exceeds 5% of their total net profits each year for philanthropy(6).