At C&S, our focus is simple but meaningful: we help feed our families, our neighbors and our communities.
From our distribution centers and grocery stores to our corporate offices, every team member plays a role in delivering the food, products and support our customers count on every day.
It’s more than a job to us — it’s our legacy.
For more than 107 years, we’ve helped shape the rapidly changing grocery industry — adapting, innovating and staying ahead of what customers need most. Today, our family of companies delivers innovative supply chain solutions, products and services to chain, independent and military customers from 60 distribution centers across the country. We also operate more than 200 corporate-run grocery stores primarily under trusted banners, including D&W® Fresh Market, Grand Union, Family Fare®, Martin’s Super Markets and Piggly Wiggly®.
As a distributor, wholesaler and retailer with a global supply chain network, we proudly serve national accounts, independent and chain grocers, e-commerce retailers, U.S. military commissaries and exchanges, and our own brick-and-mortar stores, pharmacies and fuel centers. Across every aisle — from fresh produce to household goods, including within our private label portfolio — we deliver quality, consistency and innovation at scale.
From coast to coast, our commitment remains the same: making sure shelves are stocked, helping businesses thrive and keeping our communities fed.
C&S is founded by Israel Cohen and Abraham Siegel in Worcester, Mass.
C&S moves to a 35,000-square foot facility; Israel's son Lester joins the company.
C&S wins the Big D Supermarket account, signaling a transition from small independent stores to supermarket chains.
Lester's son Rick, current Executive Chairman, joins C&S.
C&S builds a 300,000-square foot warehouse and distribution complex in Brattleboro, V.T.
C&S purchases a 350,000-square foot warehouse in South Hatfield, Mass. In the same year, C&S opened one of the largest freezers in the world in Westfield, Mass.
C&S opens a warehouse facility in Newburgh, N.Y.
C&S purchases assets of former Grand Union companies.
C&S purchases assets of former Fleming companies, including warehouses in Hawaii and California.
C&S purchases the assets of Associated Wholesalers, Inc. (AWI) and Piggly Wiggly Carolina Co., expanding C&S's independent customer base in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. C&S also acquires Grocers Supply in Houston.
C&S acquires The Davidson Specialty Food Group, expanding C&S's fresh customer base.
C&S purchases Piggly Wiggly® Midwest.
C&S opens Grand Union stores in New York and Vermont, and one Piggly Wiggly® supermarket in New York state.
C&S, as part of a consortium, purchases SEG.
C&S acquires SpartanNash, further expanding its footprint in the grocery industry.
