Robert Bernard Wegman (October 14, 1918 – April 20, 2006) was a pioneer of the one-stop shopping concept. He was the son of

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co-founder Walter Wegman. From 1969 until his death in 2006 at age 87, he was the chairman for Wegmans. In over a half-century under his leadership, the family grocery business grew into one of the largest private companies in the United States. In 2005, when the company ranked #1 on Fortune magazine's list of best companies to work for, Robert Wegman is known to have said:

"This is the culmination of my life's work."

He and his wife, Peggy, grew up attending Rochester

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schools. He was a major benefactor of the local high school he attended,

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, as well as other

education at

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. At the collegiate level, significant gifts from Robert Wegman to

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helped create the Wegmans School of Pharmacy and the Wegmans School of Nursing. Robert Wegman's granddaughter Colleen Wegman is the current head of Wegmans. Mr. Wegman was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 2004.

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