{"id":93763,"date":"2026-01-22T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93763\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T17:16:09","slug":"wawa-dominates-as-largest-pennsylvania-private-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/93763\/","title":{"rendered":"Wawa Dominates as Largest Pennsylvania Private Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Related Story: 10 Restaurants Serving Philadelphia&#8217;s Signature Sandwich<\/p>\n<p>Sheetz, on the other hand, posted a sharper decline. Its revenue dipped to $11 billion from $14 billion in 2024, which dropped the company from No. 30 to No. 43 in Forbes&#8217; rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Wawa&#8217;s workforce held steady in 2025 at approximately 47,000 employees, while Sheetz expanded to roughly 27,615 workers.<\/p>\n<p>The upward momentum of Wawa comes as it aggressively expands into the Southeast, Midwest, and Central Pennsylvania, bringing the private company closer to its rival Sheetz in core markets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/delco.today\/2026\/01\/wawa-largest-private-company-in-pa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">According to DELCO.Today<\/a>, other Greater Philadelphia-area companies were also featured on\u00a0Forbes&#8217;\u00a0list of private companies. They include Asplundh Tree Expert, W.L. Gore &amp; Associates, NFI Industries, Morgan Lewis &amp; Bockius, and Day &amp; Zimmerman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Related Story: 10 Restaurants Serving Philadelphia&#8217;s Signature Sandwich Sheetz, on the other hand, posted a sharper decline. Its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,5795],"class_list":["post-93763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-wawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}