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US Foods Corporate Office

US Foods

Many of the entities that make up US Foods have their roots in the 19th century: Monarch Foods was founded in 1853, John Sexton & Company began as a retail tea and coffee merchant in 1883, L.H. Parke Company began in 1889 and S.E. Rykoff & Co. was founded in 1911.

All of these companies were food distributors in the 20th century.

S.E. Rykoff & Co. bought John Sexton & Company in 1983 for $84.5 million, creating the new company, Rykoff-Sexton. This merged company was fourth among foodservice distributors and had $800 million in sales.

History

In 1989 PYA/Monarch’s management created a new holding company, JPF Holdings, Inc., and bought JP Foodservice Distributors from parent company Sara Lee. The new company passed $1 billion in sales the first year.

US Foodservice Inc. was formed in March 1992 and was comprised of five operating segments: White Swan, Bevaco Food Service, Kings Foodservice, Roanoke Restaurant Service, and Bigger Brothers Inc.

In the late 1990’s Rykoff-Sexton bought US Foodservice, then merged with JP Foodservice, changing its name to U.S. Foodservice in 1998.

In 2007 the company was bought out by investors and made a private company.

Today US Foods offers more than 350,000 national brand products as well as its own private-label products. The company provides food and related products to 250,000 customers such as restaurants, health care facilities, and government and educational facilities. US Foods has 25,000 employees and had $18.86 billion in revenue in 2011.

Cox Enterprises Corporate Office

Cox Enterprises

Cox Enterprises was founded in 1898 by James M. Cox, a former school teacher who had always dreamed of owning a newspaper. He realized this dream when he bought the Dayton Evening News with $26,000 he had borrowed from friends and family.

James Cox’s newspaper was a success. He entered politics and became Ohio’s first three-term governor and the 1920 Democratic nominee for president of the United States. When he lost the election he decided to concentrate on his growing media business.

In 1935 Cox started Ohio’s first radio station and in 1939 bought The Atlanta Journal newspaper and started WSB, the South’s oldest radio station, which later became became its first television station in 1948.

History

After Gov. Cox’s death in 1957, his son, James Cox Jr., assumed leadership of the company.

In 1969 the company acquired Manheim Auto Auction, which has grown to be a leading provider of used vehicle services.

Today Cox Enterprises encompasses media and non-media companies. Cox Communications is the #3 cable provider in the United States and has more than 6 million customers. The company owns eight daily newspapers, 15 local television stations, and 80 radio stations.

Cox Enterprises employs 60,000 people through 300 businesses. The company had $14.6 billion in revenue in 2011.

Reyes Holdings Corporate Office

Reyes Holdings

Reyes Holdings, LLC has its roots in the 1976 purchase of of Dixie Systems, a small Spartanburg, South Carolina beer distributor.

History

Reyes Holdings has three operating segments: The Martin-Bower Company, LLC, the largest supplier worldwide of distribution services to McDonald’s, Reinhart Foodservice, LLC, one of the largest broadline foodservice distributors in the United States, and Reyes Beverage Group, which distributes over 100 million cases of beer annually. Reyes Beverage Group is comprised of eleven beer distributors from all over the United States.

Today Reyes Holdings is a wholesale food and beverage distributor in North and South America. The company is #16 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies, has more than 17,000 employees, and had $14 billion in revenue in 2011.

In November 2020, the company renewed their lease on the current corporate office building it occupies in Rosemont, Illinois.

In October 2020, the company acquired Monarch Beverage Company, making Reyes the largest beer distributor.

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Aramark Corporate Office

Aramark Corporation

History

Aramark Corporation was founded in 1936 as Davidson Brothers by Davre and Henry Davidson. The company provided vending services to aviation industry employees in Southern California.

In 1959 Davre Davidson established ARA (Automatic Retailers of America) with William Fisherman. The company went public the following year.

Aramark provides professional services, food services, facilities management, and uniform and career apparel.

ARA provided services at the Mexico City Olympics, the first of 16 Olympic Games they serviced, including Athens in 2004 and later Beijing in 2008.

In 1983 Joseph Naubauer became CEO of the company, now named ARA Services, and a year later coordinated a management buyout.

In 1994 ARA Services changed its name to Aramark.

In 2015, the company also worked on a comprehensive new animal welfare policy that includes purchasing only cage-free eggs by 2020 and eliminating all pork from animals bred using gestation crates by 2017.

In August of 2017, the company partnered with The Humane Society as part of their commitment to increase the amount of plant-based foods. The company has plans to introduce a series of plant-based culinary training a six month period.

In 2013, an investigation by a journalist found that the food provided to inmates at Burlington County Jail in New Jersey was sub-standard and spoiled, so much so that it often made prisoners sick with diarrhea and vomiting. Maggots were found in the food preparation areas at least two jails in Michigan and these may have been the source of the outbreak of food-borne illness. Maggots were also found in Aramark food products at two Ohio prisons, the Ohio Reformatory for Women and Trumbull Correctional Institute. Aramark, however, was cleared by the Michigan Department of Corrections of any responsibility for inmate illness or pest infestation in the state of Michigan. Both the states of Ohio and Michigan fined the company $270,000 and $200,000 respectively.

Today Aramark Corporation is a food-service, facilities, and uniform provider, supplying businesses, educational institutions, sports facilities, federal and state prisons, and healthcare institutions. Aramark is #18 on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. Aramark has 270,000 employees and had $14.41 billion in revenue in 2016.

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Gavilon Group Corporate Office

Gavilon Group

The Gavilon Group has its roots in the 1874 founding of the F.H. Peavy & Company in Sioux City, Iowa. The company built its first grain facility the same year.

The company changed its name to Peavey Company in 1962 and went public in 1973.

In 1982 the Peavey Company was acquired by ConAgra Foods, Inc., making the company the country’s largest publicly held grain merchandiser.

History

In 2008 a group of investors formed Gavilon and acquired the ConAgra Trade Company, successor to ConAgra Foods, making it a private company.

In 2010 Gavilon acquired DeBruce Companies expanding its agricultural operations to Canada and Mexico.

Gavilon Group is a commodity management firm that connects producers and consumers of feed, food, and fuel through a global supply chain network.

Today Gavilon Group is #19 on the Forbes’ list of America’s Largest Private Companies. The company has 1,900 employees and had $12.60 billion in revenue in 2011.

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