United Natural Foods
Company type | Public |
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Industry | Food Wholesale/Distribution |
Founded | 1976 |
Headquarters | Providence, RI , United States |
Area served | United States, Canada |
Key people | J. Alexander (Sandy) Miller Douglas (CEO)[1] Eric Dorne (COO) |
Products | wholesale natural, organic, ethnic and gourmet, grocery, produce, perishables, personal care, and supplements. |
Revenue | US$27 billion |
US$241.96 million (2015) | |
Number of employees | 28,300 [2] (2021) |
Divisions | Alberts Fresh Produce Honest Green eSolutions Nor-Cal Produce Tony’s Fine Foods UNFI Brands+ UNFI Canada UNFI Easy Options UNFI Wellness Woodstock Farms |
Website | unfi |
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) is a Providence, Rhode Island–based natural and organic food company. The largest publicly traded wholesale distributor of health and specialty food in the United States and Canada,[3][4] it is Whole Foods Market's main supplier, with their traffic making up over a third of its revenue in 2018.[5]
History
UNFI was founded in 1996 by the merger of two regional distributors, Mountain People's Warehouse (founded in 1976, serving the
In 2007, UNFI acquired Millbrook Distribution Services. leading to a drop in share price and two rounds of layoffs, the first in the company's history.
In 2012, UNFI partnered with Buyer's Best Friend to create a unified reordering system.[11] In 2016, the company announced the acquisition of Nor-Cal produce, Inc.[12] It also completed the acquisition of Haddon House Food Products, Inc. in 2016.[13] That same year, it announced the acquisition of Gourmet Guru, Inc.[14] On October 22, 2018, UNFI completed the acquisition of SuperValu, Inc.[15]
Divisions
- UNFI Canada
- Alberts Fresh Produce
- Tony's Fine Foods
- Nor-Cal Produce
- UNFI Wellness
- Woodstock Farms
- UNFI Brands+
- Honest Green eSolutions
- UNFI Easy Options
Brands
- Essential Everyday
- Woodstock
- Wild Harvest
- Equaline
- Tumaro's Carb Wise Wraps
- Field Day
- Shoppers Value
- Asian Gourmet
- Culinary Circle
- Stone Ridge Creamery
- Mt Vikos
- Super Chill
- Arctic Shores
- Springfield
- Koyo
References
- ^ "UNFI Announces Appointments of Sandy Douglas as Chief Executive Officer and Jack Stahl as Independent Chair of the Board". UNFI.com. 28 July 2021.
- ^ "United Natural Foods company profile". Craft.
- ^ "UNFI Becomes a Distributor of KOIOS™ and Fit Soda™ Functional Beverages" (Press release). Denver and Vancouver, British Columbia: Koios Beverage Corp. Globe Newswire. February 10, 2021. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
- ^ "UNFI Reaches Definitive Agreements to Sell 13 Shoppers Food Stores" (Press release). Providence, R.I.: United Natural Foods, Inc. PRNewswire. December 6, 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-18.
- ^ Kim, Eugene (March 7, 2018). "Amazon has committed to roughly $22 billion in future food purchases as it bulks up Whole Foods". CNBC.
- ISBN 9781312937598.
- ^ "UNFI Grows With the Organic and Natural Food Market - Clean Yield". www.cleanyield.com. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
- ^ "UNFI to acquire Millbrook". New Hope. 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
- ^ "UNFI Signs Up Safeway". supermarketnews.com. 25 July 2011. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
- ^ Kaplan, Jennifer (2015-07-21). "United Natural Foods Plunges as Albertsons Contract Canceled". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
- ^ "UNFI, Buyer's Best Friend Create Reordering System". ProgressiveGrocer. 2012-06-21. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
- ^ "UNFI acquires California produce distributor". supermarketnews.com. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
- ^ "United Natural Foods to acquire Haddon House for $217.5 million". USA TODAY. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
- ^ "United Natural Foods (UNFI) Acquires Gourmet Guru". StreetInsider.com. Retrieved 2016-10-17.
- ^ Inc, United Natural Foods. "UNFI Completes Transformative Acquisition Of SUPERVALU". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2019-12-10.
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