Hy-Vee, Inc. is an employee-owned supermarket chain founded in 1930 in Beaconsfield, Iowa. The company operates over 285 stores across eight Midwestern and Southern states, including Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, with plans to expand into Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Hy-Vee emphasizes employee ownership and customer service, adhering to its founding principles of good merchandise, appreciative service, and low prices.
The company offers a comprehensive shopping experience with groceries, private-label products, in-store bakeries, and various departments, including IT services and gas stations. Hy-Vee has a rich history of growth, starting as a small grocery store and evolving into a major player in the retail market, generating $13 billion in annual revenue and employing around 75,000 people.
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Atlassian Corporation is an Australian enterprise software company founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. Based in Sydney, the company specializes in collaboration and productivity tools designed for software development, project management, and team workflows. With around 12,000 employees and offices in cities like Amsterdam and Bengaluru, Atlassian has grown significantly through product-led sales, focusing on self-service cloud and on-premises solutions.
The company is known for its core products, including Jira, a configurable issue and project tracker; Confluence, a documentation and knowledge-sharing tool; Bitbucket, a cloud code repository; and Jira Service Management, which is its fastest-growing product. Other offerings include Trello for visual project management and Opsgenie for incident management. Atlassian emphasizes values such as transparency and customer focus, and it supports teams with tools that facilitate continuous delivery and cloud-based collaboration.