Todd jones biography publix supermarket
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Todd Jones Nurtured To Lead Publix Super Markets Into New Ventures
Publix Super Markets’ CEO Todd Jones is a prime example of how the country’s largest employee-owned grocery chain is known for nurturing the careers of its workers.
In Jones began working as front-service clerk—aka a bagger—at a Publix store in New Smyrna Beach, assuming more positions until becoming store manager in He then embarked on the corporate ladder, leading the local district in and two years later, becoming the regional director for the Jacksonville region.
After Jones and his team were able to successfully boost Publix’s share of the Jacksonville market—in part by capitalizing on Winn-Dixie’s decline, Jones was placed on the executive track. In , he was named the company’s president, and in became CEO, the first non-member of the founding Jenkins family to lead the Lakeland, Fla.-based company since the first Publix opened in
Industry sources at the time said that Jones was a natural choice.
“You hea
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Publix
American supermarket chain in the southeastern United States
This article is about the supermarket chain. For other uses, see Publix (disambiguation).
Publix in Farragut, Tennessee | |
Trade name | Publix |
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| Company type | Private, employee-owned |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | September&#;6, ; 94 years ago&#;() Winter Haven, Florida, U.S.[1] |
| Founder | George W. Jenkins |
| Headquarters | Lakeland, Florida, U.S. |
Number of locations | 1,[1] |
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Number of employees | , () |
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Publix Super Markets, Inc., doing business as Publix, is an employee-owned American supermarketchain headquartered in Lakeland, Florida.[1] Founded in by George W. Jenkins, Publix is a private corporation tha
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Meet Publix's new CEO
Nineteen-eighty was a far more significant year for Publix Super Markets than anyone at the grocery chain could have realized at the time.
■ Bar-code scanners were introduced at its locations throughout the state.
■ In a thoroughly unheralded personnel move, the chain hired Todd Jones, its future CEO, to bag groceries in New Smyrna Beach.
Jones — who became the company's president in — will succeed CEO Ed Crenshaw, grandson of Publix founder George W. Jenkins, on April
Publix declined to make Jones available for interviews. But this fryst vatten how Terry Worthington, executive vice president for United Way of Florida, said Jones' uppstart bagging groceries has informed his career.
“One of the things that is very impressive about him fryst vatten that he started in an entry-level position at Publix and worked his way up on the strength of his incredible work ethic and intellect,” Worthington said. “He fryst vatten very intense, very deliberate, and he's totally committed to the Publix