As Market Basket navigates this governance crisis, it underscores the need for family businesses to balance family interests with robust corporate governance to ensure long-term stability and success.

Michael Benoit, of Claremont, N.H., right, and other Market Basket employees try to encourage shoppers to boycott the store as they protested outside the Market Basket in Claremont, on July 22, 2014.

Two longtime Market Basket executives with a combined nearly 90 years of experience with the grocery chain said they expect to be fired as part of a decision to put the company’s CEO on leave.

Readers Say Should you boycott Market Basket? Here’s what readers are saying. “If the employees think another walkout makes sense, then I'd support them.

File photo of Market Basket's longtime chief executive, Arthur T. Demoulas from 2014. W. Marc Bernsau | Business Journal By Maya Shavit and Grant Welker – Boston Business Journal ...

Market Basket's board says it has placed CEO Arthur T. Demoulas on leave, citing allegations that he was planning a work stoppage among employees at the family-controlled supermarket chain.

Market Basket employees walked off the job to defend the man they know as "Artie T." It lasted six weeks and Demoulas and his sisters won. "Under Mr. Demoulas' leadership in December of 2024, ...

1975: The Demoulas family opened its first “Market Basket” store in Salem, New Hampshire, thus the chain as we know it today was born. 1990: Arthur S. files a lawsuit alleging that Telemachus ...

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A Market Basket board member revealed information on his time with the company after the beloved grocery chain's Board of Directors placed its CEO, Arthur T. Demoulas, on paid administrative leave.