Nash Finch Company
WholesaleMinnesota, United States5001-10000 Employees
Nash Finch Company is a wholesale food distributor headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is a Fortune 500 firm and the second-largest publicly traded wholesale food distributor in the United States. The company supplies grocery products and related services to varied retailers, including conventional supermarkets, military commissaries and exchanges, multicultural stores, and extreme-value formats, with activity across 39 states and the District of Columbia and international markets in Europe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Azores, and Egypt. The business traces its roots to 1885 as a family operation founded by the Nash Brothers in Devils Lake, North Dakota. The first non-family employee, Harry B. Finch, joined in 1889 and eventually led the company, after which it was known as Nash-Finch Company. Today, Nash Finch is a large employer focused on food distribution for independent and corporate retailers and for military commissaries and exchanges, while expanding into new retail formats and related military ventures.