Thomas S. Franklin

Harris Teeter LLC operates food market chain stores. It has grocery, frozen food, and perishable distribution centers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, and Florida. The company was founded by William Thomas Harris W. L. Teeter and Paul Teeter in 1939 and is headquartered in Matthews, NC.

BI-LO Supermarkets owns and operates a chain of grocery stores. It has stores in New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria. The company was founded by John Weekes in 1970 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., Inc. operated supermarkets and grocery stores. Its brand names included A&P, Food Basics, The Food Emporium, Path Mark, and Super fresh Waldbaums. The company was founded by George Huntington Hartford and George Francis Gilman in 1850 and was headquartered in Ramsey, NJ.

Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina, Inc. provides food distribution programs. The firm supplies food and grocery items to charitable agencies. It also provide training, consultation, technical assistance, and hunger education programs to partner agencies. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.