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Top 100: 86. Publix

February 23, 2011

The nation’s largest employee-owned supermarket chain defied the recession by opening 36 new stores in 2009, and hiring more than 27,000 new associates. Publix’s sales for the third quarter of 2010 were $6 billion, a 3.5 percent increase from last year’s $5.8 billion, with net earnings of $283.2 million, compared to $254.9 million in 2009, an increase of 11.1 percent. This past summer, the southeastern grocery chain licensed APT’s Test & Learn for Sites software to efficiently measure the impact of new capital allocation, merchandising, marketing, pricing and operations initiatives and intelligently target the rollout of these initiatives across its more than one thousand supermarkets spanning its five-state blueprint.

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