Business View Magazine March 2023

106 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 3 WITH HE AT A GLANCE HOUCHENS INDUSTRIES WHAT: A retail grocery giant with an employee-owned business model that works WHERE: Bowling Green, Kentucky WEBSITE: https://houchens.com/ n ESOP giant in every sense of the word, Houchens Industries is proving to be the model to follow in the rapidly growing sector of companies that are switching their business models to an employee-owned approach. The company was originally founded in Barren County,Kentucky, by Ervin G. Houchens in 1917 as Houchens Foods. More than a century later, Houchens Industries operates more than 300 retail grocery, convenience, and neighborhood market stores across 14 states but has expanded and diversified into a full range of other industries. A Providing an enviable model of a very diversified employee-owned company, Houchens Industries also remains a retail grocery giant and industry leader