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   George Washington Jenkins Jr. (September 29, 1907 – April 8, 1996) was an American businessman who founded Publix Super Markets. As of 2016, the employee-owned, privately held corporation included 1,100 stores in the Southeastern United States with 170,000 employees and sales of $32 billion.

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   Howard Jenkins (born 1952/53) is an American billionaire businessman, the son of George W. Jenkins, the founder of Publix Super Markets, and its chairman and CEO from 1990 to 2001.

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4. www.company-histories.com › Publix-Super-MarketsPublix Super Markets Inc. -- Company History

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   Publix was founded in 1930 by George W. Jenkins, the son of a rural Georgia grocer. Jenkins moved to Winter Haven, Florida, in 1927 and took a job as a stock clerk at the local Piggly Wiggly. He became the store's manager six weeks later at the age of 17.

5. www.nytimes.com › 1996/04/10 › usGeorge Jenkins, 88, Founder Of $9 Billion Grocery Chain

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   Apr 10, 1996 · George W. Jenkins, founder of Publix Supermarkets, the nation's ninth-largest grocery retailing chain and one of its most innovative, died on Monday at the Lakeland Regional Medical Center, a...

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   Apr 8, 1996 · George Washington Jenkins Jr. was born Sept. 29, 1907, in Warm Springs, Ga. He is the son of George Jenkins and Annie Snelson. He was one of eight children of a general store owner. He was 12 when he started working in his father’s store.

   • Gender: Male
   • Birth Date: September 29, 1907

   • Spouse: Anne Macgregor
   • Death Date: April 8, 1996

7. corporate.publix.com › newsroom › news-storiesThe history of Publix founder, Mr. George | Newsroom |Publix

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   George Jenkins was one of eight children born into the Jenkins family in Harris City, Georgia. Born on Sept. 29, 1907, to George W. Jenkins Sr. and Annie S. Nelson Jenkins, he was known from a young age to be a go-getter.

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   Who was George Washington Jenkins?

   • George Washington Jenkins Jr. was born Sept. 29, 1907, in Warm Springs, Ga. He was one of eight children of a general store owner. He was 12 when he started working in his father's store, which sold "everything from coffins to collar buttons," he once said. When Mr. Jenkins was 16, the boll weevil attacked the area's cotton crops.

   George Jenkins, 88, Founder Of $9 Billion Grocery Chain

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   When did George Jenkins start a grocery store?

   • It was that year that he resigned from Piggly Wiggly to start his own grocery store. On Sept. 6, 1930, George Jenkins opened his first store, called Publix Food Store, in Winter Haven. In 1935, he opened a second location across town. He closed these first two stores to open his dream store, the first Publix Super Market, on Nov. 8, 1940.

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   Why did George Jenkins leave Publix?

   • The real estate company fueled the Florida-boom fever in Publix founder. George Jenkins skipped the chance to make the money needed to put himself through school and instead hitched a ride to Florida with an acquaintance. Mr. George was dropped off in the middle of Ybor City, Florida, with nothing more than a change of clothes and $9 in his pocket.

   The history of Publix founder, Mr. George | Newsroom |Publix

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   What is Howard Jenkins net worth?

   • Howard Jenkins (born 1952/53) is an American billionaire businessman, the son of George W. Jenkins, the founder of Publix Super Markets, and its chairman and CEO from 1990 to 2001. His family is among the richest in Florida and thirty-ninth richest in America, according to Forbes, with a net worth of $8.8 billion in 2020.

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   What did Howard and Patricia Jenkins donate to the University of Tampa?

   • Howard and Patricia Jenkins donated $10 million to the University of Tampa, which both their children attended, and a residence hall will be named in their honour. ^ Stocks (April 26, 2017).

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   When did George Jenkins get a Golden Plate Award?

   • In 1966, Jenkins received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and was the Host of the 1977 Achievement Summit in Orlando, Florida. The George Jenkins Arena in the Lakeland Center opened in 1974 as a multipurpose entertainment facility with seating for 10,000.

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9. corporate.publix.com › about-publix › cultureHistory | Publix Culture | About Publix | Publix Super Markets

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   George W. Jenkins, the late founder of Publix Super Markets Inc., was born Sept. 29, 1907. Growing up in Harris, GA, he worked in his father's general store. In 1925, he headed to Tampa, FL at the age of 17 with hopes of making his fortune in the Florida real estate boom.