5x5x5 Growth Awards: Food - C & S Wholesale Grocers Inc., The

Vermont Business Magazine, Sep 01, 2004

C&SWholesale Grocers Inc.

Address: PO Box 821, Brattleboro, VT 05302

Phone: 802 257-4371 Fax: 802 257-6620

Web: vvww.cswg.com

CEO: Rick Cohen

Description: Wholesale grocery distributor

Employment: 1200

Sales 2003: $11300M

Five-Year Growth: 121.6%

C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. is a privately owned company with annual sales of approximately $11 billion. The company is currently the 11th largest privately held company in the nation, as ranked by Forbes magazine in 2003. C&S provides wholes-ale food distribution to grocery chains as well as independent stores throughout the northeastern and midwestern United States. The Company is the wholesale supplier to 19 military bases as well. Under the leadership of CEO Rick Cohen, C&S has gained key supply contracts, expanded its warehousing operations and developed a highly productive workforce with employee incentive plans and teambased structure.

Employing nearly 9,000 associates at over 29 facilities, C&S is a growing and innovative force in the industry.