The Middleby Corporation (MIDD)

Commercial kitchen and food processing equipment maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 3, 2026, filed March 4, 2026. Ranked 48 of the 198 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing counts its 8,826 employees by group, status and country, so the commercial foodservice group leads, the food processing group follows and the counted corporate office takes the management pattern.

The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.

What follows from the reading

Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 20% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 40% at the end of 2028, 43% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 43% desk work, 17% people work and 39% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 57% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 34% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

8,826 employees as of January 3, 2026 (stated). Stated: 4,786 of 8,826 employees were located in the United States.

The filing: “As of January 3, 2026, 8,826 persons were employed by the company and its subsidiaries of continuing operations.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 8,826 employees of continuing operations as of January 3, 2026, 4,786 in the United States; Commercial Foodservice 5,878 (2,579 management, administrative, sales, engineering and supervisory; 2,920 hourly production non-union; 379 hourly production union; 2,393 outside the U.S.), Food Processing 2,843 (1,625 salaried; 1,114 hourly non-union; 104 hourly union; 1,647 outside the U.S.), corporate 105; hourly production workers about 51%; unionized employees about 5%, under contracts in California, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Philippines.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI, 6,600 employees)33% now, 50% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

0 sentences in the filing name AI. No sentence in the filing names AI.

Its annual reports, year by year

Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector

• Fiscal 20210median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20240median 4
• Fiscal 20250median 10

Headcount by filing year

As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.

Limits of this reading

• The count is for the company and its subsidiaries of continuing operations, as the filing states it.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000769520-26-000011, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.