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Affiliated Foods Midwest
Company typeRetailers' cooperative
IndustryRetailing
FoundedPlainview, Nebraska, U.S. (1931 (1931))
HeadquartersNorfolk, Nebraska, U.S.
Number of locations3 distribution centers (2010)
Area servedCentral United States
Key peopleMartin W. Arter, President
ProductsGroceries
Number of employees800
Websitehttp://www.afmidwest.com/

Affiliated Foods Midwest was a retailers' cooperative based in Norfolk, Nebraska, Elwood, Kansas and Kenosha, Wisconsin, serving the states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky and Michigan. It distributed Shurfine products, and was affiliated with IGA (supermarkets).

It was founded in 1931 in Plainview, Nebraska, it took the name General Wholesale in 1936, and the name Affiliated Foods in 1977. In 2016, it merged with Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG); the combined entity operates under AWG name.

References

  1. Cloud, Kristen. "AWG Wraps Merger With Affiliated Foods Midwest". The Shelby Report. October 26, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
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