LAFAYETTE, La. -- Church Point Wholesale has announced the acquisition of CONCO Food Distributors' Convenience Store Wholesale Division, reported The Opelousas Daily World. Jack Casanova, president of Church Point Wholesale, said the acquisition adds hundreds of new chain and independent customers, including locations in Alabama and the panhandle of Florida, to the CPW family. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"At a time when many companies are cutting back, Church Point Wholesale is growing," Casanova told the newspaper. "The acquisition of this business adds [image-nocss] a major operating unit of one of Louisiana's oldest grocery and tobacco wholesalers into our company, ensuring that jobs that may have gone to another state will remain right here in Louisiana."
Lafayette, La.-based CONCO Food Distributors is a division of Consolidated Companies Inc. Its foodservice division specializes in the distribution of food and food-related products to businesses that prepare and serve food, said the report.
CONCO Food Service currently operates from three facilities in Harahan, Lafayette and Shreveport, La., and services six states and more than 4,000 customers.
"CONCO Food Distributors Convenience Store Division is a natural fit for Church Point Wholesale. Both parent companies started in the early 1900s as family-run businesses focused on providing superior customer service," Casanova added. "This purchase strengthens our position as an industry leader and advances Church Point Wholesale's goal of expanding into new geographic areas."
Church Point Wholesale is a full-line wholesale distributors to supermarkets, superettes, c-stores and deli food operations in the southeastern United States. It is a division of Acadia Wholesale & Tobacco Co. Inc., which also operates Pelican Cigar & Tobacco of Lake Charles and Lafayette Drugs/Abe's Sales & Service Company of Lafayette, a general merchandise distributor.
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