Central Grocers Cooperative

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Central Grocers Cooperative, founded in 1917, 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.

It supplies several grocery stores in Indiana and Illinois including: Strack & Van Til, 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.[1]

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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
  1. ↑ Central Grocers, Certified Midwest to Merge
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