Nash Finch & Co supplies food products and support services to a variety of merchandising formats including extreme value stores, supermarkets, multicultural stores, and military commissaries. Their core business of food distribution serves military commissaries, and independent retailers in 36 states. They also serve the Azores, Cuba, the District of Columbia in the U.S., Egypt, Europe, and Puerto Rico.
About Nash Finch & Co
Nash Finch & Co has been in business for over 125 years. Fred Nash opened his first small store in Devil’s Lake, North Dakota back in 1885. His store was a success and within a year, he purchased a second store in Park River, and soon a third, again in Devil’s Lake.
The first opportunity for expansion really came in 1904, when the Nash brothers Edgar and Willis decided to buy a wholesale house, Minot Grocery Company. In 1912, the Nash brothers also purchased White Brothers & Crumb Company, which included vast orchards and ranches for fruit production. This purchase is what allowed them to enter into the business of growing, packing and shipping their own fruit.
Even now, the business is still growing and continuing to be innovative with their business decisions. For example, the first Family Fresh Market opened in Hudson, Wisconsin in 2008. This store features premium organic and natural products, service meat, and high-end produce. They also acquired three more distribution centers in 2009.
Brands
Our Family – this is an extensive line of high quality products.
Nash Brothers Trading Company – this line features organic, natural, and premium products. To produce these products the company utilizes sustainable and healthy farming practices. They also carry strict guidelines for their natural products.
Value Choice – this product line offers an economical alternative that is comparable to other regional products.
Our Family Labels for Learning – this is a program designed to help students in the region to receive additional funding for their schools. The UPC bar codes on certain products can be redeemed by the schools in the area for funds.
Stats
Annual Sales – by the end of the fiscal year 2010, the company reached $5.2 billion in total sales. That is $572 million in retail, $2,655 million in wholesale, and $1,985 million in military distributions.
States Serviced – Nash Finch & Co currently operates in eight states.
- Colorado
- Nebraska
- Iowa
- Ohio
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
Stores
Currently the company has 54 stores total.
Community
Nash Finch & Co operates the NFC Foundation, which supports nonprofit organizations in the areas in which the associates of the company live and work. The foundation is most concerned with serving the hungry. Every month Nash Finch volunteers serve meals through Loaves & Fishes, which is a local hunger relief agency located in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. Another main focus of NFC is assisting organizations that provide shelter to homeless. The foundation also supports the Special Olympics of Minnesota and its Feeding Imagination program that has resulted in the donation of more than 115,000 K-6 books to schools and nonprofit organizations.
Banners: AVANZA, Buy ‘n Save, Econofoods, Sun Mart, Family Thrift Center, and Wholesale Food Outlet
i would like to buy one gallon storage bags twist tie. there are no stores inTexas. Can I order these?
On the back of a box of Corn Biscuits you have household tips that are fun but two are not true.
#2 tin was shown to be an “old wives tale” and proven wrong in Myth Busters. The ONLY household product that stops ants is… olive oil.
#5. A floating egg doesn’t mean it’s bad just old. But old eggs are easier to peel when hard boiled. BTW: we live in China part time and eggs are not refrigerated and sometimes left in o cooled storage for a month or more, and taste just fine. NOTE: in the USA commercial eggs producers wash eggs with a chemical to wash away its protective coating making our eggs more dangerous to store and eat when stored improperly.
Dear Sirs; I live in chetek WI. your stoe there is KJs fresh market. WHY ARE THE PRICES SO HIGH? I am retired and can not afford, along with long list of other people, these price increases. I can see prices rise in tourist season but not the rest of the year.
I need to know if your Our Family Almond Bark is gluten-free.
Hi I’m a dietary manager at a small nursing home in ND. I wondering if you sell to nursing homes and deliver to them. And if you do how I go about contacting the company.
Thank You
I bought some of the Our Famiky Smokehouse Spicy Andouille Sausage and I find it rather tasteless.
I have made a dozen trips to Alabama and West Florida in the last 8 years so I know what good andouille tastes like.. this ain’t it☹️
I am not happy with you rearanging your store every few weeks so I have to wonder around the whole store to find one item.
I have shopped at this store for years and if this does not stop I will most definately go to another store!!!!!
I mentioned this to your managers and they said they would contact me and they never did.