Whole Foods Market® Makes Fortune's ‘Change the World’ List, a Ranking of ‘Companies That Are Doing Well by Doing Good...
August 20 2015 - 12:28PM
Business Wire
Company lauded for ‘setting a standard for
grocery stores’ and for ‘continually pushing for change’
In its new ranking of 50 companies that “Change the World,”
Fortune magazine recognizes Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFM) for
“doing well by doing good.” The company ranks No. 30 on the list,
which will appear in the magazine’s Sept. 1 issue.
Fortune highlights Whole Foods Market’s position at the
forefront of food consciousness, noting the company’s role in
creating the market for natural, healthy food: “The Austin-based
grocer prompted giants from Walmart to Kroger to up their organic
game. Whole Foods continues to push for change through initiatives
like its animal-welfare standards, its refusal to sell overfished
seafood, and its requirement that all products it sells containing
genetically modified ingredients be labeled as such by 2018.”
Fortune also quotes New York University food studies, nutrition,
and public health professor Marion Nestle as saying the company
“set a standard for grocery stores.”
“It’s incredibly rewarding to be included on Fortune’s list
because it represents the culmination of decades of passion and
dedication our team members have invested in our mission,” said
co-CEO Walter Robb. “Collectively, we believe it is our
responsibility to co-create a world where everyone can flourish,
and that much of our success to date stems from having a bigger
idea that draws in and inspires our team members to further shape
and express that idea–or higher purpose–in large and small ways
every day.”
The company's motto, “Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet,”™
captures its mission to ensure customer satisfaction and health,
team member excellence and happiness, enhanced shareholder value,
community support and environmental improvement. Whole Foods Market
constantly evolves its higher purpose by tapping into the company’s
heightened level of consciousness for the good of the business,
society and the world as a whole.
"By focusing on our deeper purpose, we have inspired, engaged
and energized all of our stakeholders to come together to awaken
food consciousness while helping make the world a better place,”
said John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO. "It is gratifying to be
recognized for fulfilling our higher purpose—one that reaches far
beyond simply being a food retailer.”
Fortune’s Sept. 1 “Change the World” issue also features an
article entitled “John Mackey: a conscious capitalist.” Mackey is a
co-author of “Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of
Business,” a book that boldly defends the good of business and
capitalism by presenting a way of thinking about the higher purpose
of a business, its relationships with interconnected stakeholders
and the impact it has on the world.
Whole Foods Market is No. 214 on the Fortune 500 list and has
been on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” list for 18
years. The company also ranked No. 18 on Fortune’s “World’s Most
Admired Companies” list in 2015, and Mackey appears on its “World’s
Greatest Leaders” list this year as well.
Other accolades the company has received in 2015:
- Greenpeace named Whole Foods Market the
top retailer for seafood sustainability in the nonprofit’s annual
ranking of U.S. supermarkets. Whole Foods Market has topped the
seafood sustainability list for three consecutive years.
- Compassion in World Farming recognized
Whole Foods Market with a Good Sow Commendation and Global Good Egg
Award for the company’s animal welfare efforts.
- Reputation Institute ranked Whole Foods
Market America’s third most reputable company in the retail
industry and the third-strongest retail brand in America.
- The Better World Shopping Guide awarded
Whole Foods Market an “A-” rating in its latest edition.
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