Dive Brief:
- Gordon Food Service will build a new distribution center in Kannapolis, NC.
- The nation's largest privately held food service distributor will spend some $58 million on the facility and create 275 jobs.
- GFS, with roughly $10 billion a year in revenue, supplies companies in the eastern half of the United States and all of Canada.
Dive Insight:
The open question here is whether GFS will use its new North Carolina center to serve a new retail presence in the area. In addition to its food service operations, GFS runs 170 retail stores under the Marketplace brand. But there are no Marketplace stores in the Carolinas...yet.