Agreement comes as AWG hatches plans for ninth full-line division
Midwestern grocer Coborn’s is slated to shift to Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) as its primary wholesale supplier starting next year.
Plans call for AWG to begin grocery shipments to St. Cloud, Minn.-based Coborn’s in January, the companies said. The supermarket chain will be served via AWG’s new Upper Midwest Division in St. Cloud, situated in the former Creative Memories warehouse facility in the city’s I-94 Business Park. Fresh and frozen products will be shipped temporarily from AWG’s Nebraska and Great Lakes Divisions.
The addition of Coborn’s dovetails with AWG’s plan to create a ninth full-line wholesale division. Later in 2022, Kansas City, Kan.-based AWG — the nation’s largest cooperative food wholesaler to independent supermarkets — expects to finish construction of a new fresh and frozen warehouse, at a location yet to be determined. The new facilities will provide more than 650,000 square feet of warehouse space and accommodate full-line distribution of products to Coborn’s and other AWG member stores in the region, the wholesaler said.