Press Releases

With just over $3 billion in sales in Fiscal 2000, Unified Western Grocers, Inc. now ranks as the 10th largest cooperative in the United States, according to figures released recently by the National Cooperative Bank, Washington, D.C., and published in the November 27, 2000 issue of Forbes magazine.

The survey, conducted annually by the bank, ranks cooperatives throughout the nation on the basis of each organization's sales.  This year, Unified moved up to the number 10 position because of consolidation among other cooperatives and the September 1999 merger of Los Angeles-based Certified Grocers of California, Ltd. and United Grocers, Inc. of Portland, Oregon, which resulted in Unified Western Grocers.

And according to a list published recently by the Los Angeles Business Journal, Unified Western Grocers ranks as the largest privately-owned company in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.  The company's number-one ranking is also based on the company's annual sales.

Unified Western Grocers, Inc. is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independent retailers throughout the Western United States. Unified and its subsidiaries, which generated approximately $3 billion in sales during the 2000 fiscal year, offer independent retailers all the resources they need to compete in today's supermarket industry.