The Fresh Market

The Fresh Market is a chain of gourmet supermarkets based in Greensboro, North Carolina.

History
The Fresh Market was founded by Ray and Beverly Berry on March 8, 1982 in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Berrys' idea was to develop a better grocery store that brought back the feeling of open European-style markets. The company operates 160 stores in 25 states, located in the Southeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and West with plans for continued expansion throughout the country. Their first store in the West opened in October 2012 in Roseville, California.However in March 2014, the company announced that it was closing all three of its Sacramento area stores including its Roseville store.

Longtime family-owned Houston grocer Rice Epicurean Markets is closing all but one of the 5 stores to make way for The Fresh Market, the Greensboro, N.C.-based specialty food chain announced November 14, 2012. Fresh Market will remodel each location and plans to open the four stores in the latter half of next year.

After increasing the price of its initial public offering from $18–20 to $22, Fresh Market raised $290 million, and on November 5, 2010, began trading on Nasdaq using the symbol TFM.

Locations
Fresh Market operates stores in these US states:


 * Alabama - 6
 * Arkansas - 2
 * California - 3 (Roseville, Elk Grove, and Sacramento (closing), Laguna Hills)
 * Connecticut - 2
 * Florida - 31
 * Georgia - 12
 * Illinois - 7
 * Indiana - 4
 * Iowa - 1 (Cedar Rapids store has been announced to open in 2014)
 * Kansas - 1
 * Kentucky - 3
 * Louisiana - 4
 * Massachusetts - 1
 * Maryland - 4
 * Mississippi - 1
 * North Carolina - 15 & current headquarters
 * New Hampshire - 1
 * New Jersey - 2
 * New York - 4
 * Ohio - 6
 * Oklahoma - 1
 * Pennsylvania - 3
 * South Carolina - 6
 * Tennessee - 7
 * Texas - 3 (one Houston store closing)
 * Virginia - 9
 * Wisconsin - 2