This transaction will bring together two highly complementary grocery wholesale organizations with combined sales of approximately $16 billion in 2016.
SUPERVALU INC., Eden Prairie, Minn., and Unified Grocers, Inc., Commerce, Calif., entered into a definitive merger agreement for SUPERVALU to acquire Unified Grocers in a transaction valued at approximately $375 million.
This transaction will bring together two highly complementary grocery wholesale organizations with combined sales of approximately $16 billion in 2016.Together, SUPERVALU and Unified operate 24 distribution centers supplying customers in 46 states and serve a combined customer base of over 3,000 stores. The combined company will be uniquely positioned to efficiently serve a broad range of independent customers and offer a diverse array of value-added services and new growth opportunities across multiple geographies, including the expansion of Unified’s Market Centre division, a growing business providing specialty and ethnic products to independent customers.