The service area will include Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, providing those member-retailers a more localized assortment, lower cost of goods, and saving those AWG members millions of dollars annually through reduced freight expenses. The Upper Midwest Division will supply and support current and future cooperative members closer to the new operation. In total, AWG expects this project to create over 400 new jobs. Additionally, once a site is selected for the new fresh and frozen warehouse and completed, AWG plans a future expansion into a single state-of-the-art facility with automated high-tech operations and with up to one million square feet of space, based on retail demand. Once completed, these warehouses will provide more than 650,000 square feet of warehouse space and accommodate the full-line distribution of products to Coborn’s and other AWG member stores in the region. Later in 2022, AWG will complete a new fresh and frozen warehouse at a location still to be determined. Fresh and frozen products will temporarily ship from AWG’s Nebraska and Great Lakes Divisions. Cloud’s I-94 Business Park at Opportunity Drive and I-94. Cloud, Minnesota, Coborn’s is a 100-year-old employee-owned grocery retailer with nearly 9,300 employees and 59 grocery stores across Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin operating under the Coborn’s, Cash Wise Foods, Marketplace Foods, and Hornbacher’s banners.ĪWG will commence supply of grocery products to the Coborn’s stores in January 2022 from AWG’s new Upper Midwest Division in St Cloud, Minnesota situated in the former Creative Memories warehouse facility located in St. (Coborn’s) announced they have reached an agreement for AWG to serve as the primary wholesale supplier to Coborn’s. CLOUD, MN – Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc.
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