Hy-Vee
About Hy-Vee, Inc. is an American employee-owned chain of supermarkets headquartered at 5820 Westown Parkway, West Des Moines, Iowa 50266 — a modern campus in the western Des Moines metro area that has served as Hy-Vee’s corporate home since 1995, when the company relocated from its original headquarters in Chariton, Iowa. Hy-Vee was founded in 1930 in Beaconsfield, Iowa by Charles Hyde and David Vredenburg — the “Hy” from Hyde and “Vee” from Vredenburg — as a small employee-owned general store that grew across the Midwest through a culture of employee ownership and customer service. The company operates 563+ business units across 9 Midwestern states and generates over $13 billion in annual sales, making it the largest employee-owned grocery chain