The Merchants Company Announces the Acquisition of Tifton, GA Distribution Center
January 28th, 2010
Merchants Foodservice Expands Distribution Area to Cover Entire Southeast
Hattiesburg, MS., January 29, 2010: Merchants Foodservice, the foodservice distribution division of The Merchants Company, recently acquired a 107,000 square foot food distribution facility in Tifton, GA. This acquisition provides the company with its fourth broadline foodservice distribution center. The distribution center, which will be known as Merchants Foodservice of Georgia allows the company to expand the current distribution area to cover Georgia and Florida.
“Tifton, GA is a prime location in the southeastern United States. Placing a distribution center here gives us the ability to cover the entire Southeast region.” says Andy Mercier, President and CEO of Merchants Foodservice. Mercier explained that Merchants Foodservice’s management team was attracted to this distribution center because of its strategic location and the facility’s pristine condition. “This is the perfect opportunity for us to establish distribution for our customers with locations in Georgia and Florida.” Mercier said. “We now have the ability to provide distribution to our growing base of mulit-unit customers offering one distributor that can supply restaurant locations throughout Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina. We will also be able to pursue additional regional multi-unit restaurant operators, many of whom have locations we were previously unable to service.”
Merchants Foodservice is a privately owned broadline foodservice distribution company with corporate headquarters in Hattiesburg, MS. Merchants currently has $440 million in annual revenues operating three broadline distribution centers in Jackson, MS, Clanton, AL and Newberry, SC. Merchants Foodservice is one of the nation’s leading foodservice distributors, currently ranked 20th on the ID Top 50 Broadline Distributor’s Report and was recently recognized as one of the 40 Fastest Growing Privately Owned Companies by the Mississippi Business Journal. Merchants Foodservice is a member of the Frosty Acres, Inc. buying group and the supply chain solutions group, Tailor Made Distribution. Merchants distributes products from 600 of the nation’s top manufacturers to its growing number of foodservice operators.
What sets Merchants Foodservice apart from other distributors? “Since our beginnings over a century ago, Merchants Foodservice has always been privately-owned. That’s perpetuated a sense of family, not only among our 550+ employees, but among our thousands of customers. And, while Merchants Foodservice is large enough to be competitive and offer real value to every customer, we’re lean enough to act quickly in response to the changing needs of the foodservice industry. We don’t have layers of corporate bureaucracy- we’re directly engaged with our customers from our sales representatives to our delivery fleet to our management team. Treating our customers like family, that’s the Merchants Edge,” Andy Mercier, President and CEO
Photos: http://www.merchantsfoodservice.com/gallery/v/2010/
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