We're built on a passion for retail, attention to detail, working hard, ensuring the safety of our customers and our people, and having fun. Our mission is to deliver to customers a better shopping experience - each and every time. Our vision and values are known as The Woolworths Way . Location Woolworths Limited is an Australian company, with its head office in Sydney. We operate more than 1400 stores in Australia, plus an additional 33 Dick Smith Electronics stores in New Zealand.
Supermarkets is our largest division with stores in all states.
Shareholders Woolworths Limited has over 275,000 shareholders, plus around 45,000 employee shareholders - which makes us one of the largest employee ownership corporations in Australia. People Woolworths employs around 140,000 people. Some 50,000 of our employees are in rural and regional areas. We train more apprentices than any other company in Australia. More information For more information, read our Annual Report in the Shareholder Centre section of this web site.