Central Grocers Cooperative
Central Grocers Cooperative, founded in 1917 as "Central Wholesale Grocers",[1] is a retailers' cooperative based in Joliet, Illinois, near Chicago. It distributes both brand name and private label goods branded as Centrella and Silver Cup Value Buy to about 240 member-owner grocery stores in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. According to their corporate page it's 400 stores
It supplies several grocery stores in Indiana and Illinois including: Strack & Van Til (acquired in 1998[2]), Town & Country, Key Market, and Ultra Foods. It also purchased a number of former Cub Foods locations in the Chicago area, some of which it operates as Strack and Van Til and Ultra Foods. Fellow co-op Certified Grocers Midwest merged into Central Grocers in 2008.[3][4] Prior to 2009, the company was headquartered in Franklin Park, Illinois.[5][6]
As of 2013, it was the seventh largest grocery cooperative in the United States, with over $2 billion on consolidated annual sales.[7]
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References
- Smaller grocers circling Chicago: Stores open in outlying towns; are burbs next? by H. Lee Murphy in Crain's Chicago Business, 2 16, 2006
- ↑ National Grocers Bulletin, Volume 19 (1932) ("The initial capital was $25,000 in 1917. This was doubled two years later. ... favorable reputation for safe operating and fair dealing have brought the Central Wholesale Grocers to their present very enviable position.")
- ↑ Lazarus, George (16 August 2000). Central Grocers Puts Sterk Chain Into Its Basket, Chicago Tribune
- ↑ Central Grocers, Certified Midwest to Merge
- ↑ http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-200846025.html
- ↑ Manor, Robert (19 March 2008). Grocery cooperative may move from Franklin Park, Chicago Tribune
- ↑ Okon, Bob (26 Jan 2011). More than 1,000 try for 50 union jobs in Joliet, Chicago Sun Times
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-09-10. Retrieved 2014-09-09.