THE KROGER COMPANY: A GLOBAL MANUFACTURER Angela Hodges Global Operations Management MGMT 415

Abstract The writer will give a background of Bernard H. Kroger, the entrepreneur who started the multimillion company, The Kroger Company. The Kroger Company has over 2,800 stores in 35 different states and is actively expanding. The company was started by Bernard H. Kroger when he was twenty-three years old with his life saving of 372. Kroger is now one of the largest grocery chains in the world and grosses 115.3 million dollars per year in sales. The Kroger Company has seven components of its organizational supply chain include: food and products, high-impact commodities, animal welfare, ingredient safety, supplier diversity, safety first, and quality and brands manufacturing...