Market Basket (New England)

DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc.

A typical Market Basket store in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Trade name	Market Basket
Company type	Private
Industry	Retail (Grocery)
Founded	1917 (107 years ago) (1917) in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
Founder	Athanasios Demoulas Efrosini Demoulas
Headquarters	Tewksbury, Massachusetts , United States
Number of locations	90
Area served	New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island
Key people	Arthur T. Demoulas (Chief Executive Officer)[1]
Products	Bakery (not available at all stores), Dairy, Deli, Frozen Foods, Grocery, Meat, Health & Beauty Aids, Produce, Seafood, Snacks, Beer & Wine [note 1]
Services	Markets Kitchen & Markets Café [note 2]
Revenue	US$4 billion (2015)[2]
Owners	Frances Demoulas Glorianne Demoulas Arthur T. Demoulas Caren Demoulas
Number of employees	25,000 (2014)[3]
Parent	DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc.
Website	shopmarketbasket.com

DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc., under the trade name Market Basket, is a chain of 88 supermarkets in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, and Rhode Island in the United States, with headquarters in Tewksbury, Massachusetts.^[3]

From 1990 through late August 2014, the company was the center of a controversy over ownership and leadership, which culminated in protests receiving international media attention. On August 27, 2014, an agreement was reached between its feuding owners to sell the 50.5% stake of the company owned by the family of Arthur S. Demoulas to his cousin Arthur T. Demoulas for $1.5 billion.^[1]

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