Wawa (company)

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Wawa, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry
FoundedApril 16, 1964; 60 years ago (1964-04-16)
FounderGrahame Wood
Headquarters
Wawa, Pennsylvania
,
United States[1]
Number of locations
1,032 (2023)[2]
Area served
Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C.
Planned: Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia
Former: New York and Connecticut
Key people
Chris Gheysens (CEO)[3]
Products
  • Coffee
  • Hoagies
  • Prepared foods
  • Gasoline
  • Beverages
  • Snacks
  • Dairy products
  • Salads
RevenueIncrease US$13 billion (2020)[4]
Increase US$118 million (2011)[5]
Total assetsIncrease US$1.57 billion (2011)[5]
Owner
Number of employees
37,000 (2020)[4]
Websitewww.wawa.com

Wawa, Inc. (/wɑːwɑː/ WAH-WAH) is an American chain of convenience stores and gas stations originating in the Philadelphia metropolitan area and located along the East Coast of the United States, operating in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Florida, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia.[8][9] Wawa is based in, primarily associated with, and mainly concentrated in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, though in recent years it has gradually expanded its store locations beyond the Philadelphia area. The company's corporate headquarters is located in the Wawa area of Chester Heights, Pennsylvania in Greater Philadelphia.

As of 2008, Wawa was the largest convenience store chain in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area and the third-largest food retailer in greater Philadelphia after Acme Markets and ShopRite.[10][11]

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  9. ^ Specker, Lawrence (25 April 2024). "'I've never seen anything like this': Wawa is open for business in Alabama". Retrieved April 25, 2024.
  10. ^ "Wawa's wonders of retailing, The dairy and convenience-store chain is marking 100 years." Philadelphia Inquirer. August 5, 2002. D01. Retrieved on December 21, 2011. "Wawa not only dominates the convenience-store business in the Philadelphia region but is also the third-largest food retailer, trailing only Acme Markets and ShopRite." and "To boost sales, the company opened its first Wawa Food Market in 1964 in Folsom, Delaware County. Stores now spread from central Pennsylvania and central New Jersey to southern Virginia. In the 1970s, the company began selling more coffee by the cup,[...]"
  11. ^ Wood, Anthony R. (April 16, 2009). "A little dairy with a big idea How success came to Wawa". Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Retrieved December 21, 2011.