Washington, D.C. – On December 13, C&S Wholesale Grocers announced its support of the 23rd class of Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellows, as it celebrated its 12-year partnership with the Congressional Hunger Center to develop national leaders to end hunger in the United States. Since 2005, C&S Wholesale Grocers has contributed to the Congressional Hunger [...]
Keene, NH – Piggly Wiggly supermarkets and C&S Charities, Inc. are proud to announce that they donated $25,000 from their South Carolina Golf Classic to the Lowcountry Food Bank for its BackPack Buddies program. The event, which was held on October 28, hosted more than 100 golfers at RiverTowne Country Club in Mt. Pleasant, South [...]
Keene, NH – C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. announces grants to 12 food banks in or near communities where the company has a presence. The grants are focused on child hunger, primarily through the BackPack Program. The program alleviates weekend hunger among food-insecure children by quietly filling back packs with nutritious food on Fridays. More than [...]
Keene, NH – C&S Charities, Inc. is proud to announce that it donated $1.7 million to six nonprofit organizations devoted to pediatric cancer and childhood hunger issues through its 31st annual Tee Up for Kids™ charity golf outing. The event, which was held on August 2 and 3, hosted more than 1,000 golfers on four [...]
Keene, NH – For kids, summer should mean fun, but for the 22 million children in the U.S. who depend on free or reduced-price meals offered in school, it can mean worrying about not getting enough to eat. To help with that, C&S Wholesale Grocers has donated paper goods to support summer meals programs for [...]
Keene, NH – In partnership with generationOn, the youth service division of Points of Light, C&S Wholesale Grocers is pleased to announce the results of the 2016 Make Your Mark on Hunger campaign. It was the second year of the campiang and the company provided financial support for both years. A suite of free tools [...]
Keene, NH – During the month of April, when people across the nation made a difference through community service, employees at C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. and its family of companies volunteered at 35 projects from coast to coast. Projects included: Alabama Served meals at the Salvation Army in Montgomery, AL Sorted and packed food for [...]
Keene, NH – C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc., inclusive of its family of companies, today announced that it is joining many in the grocery industry in pledging to shift to cage-free egg procurement for its private label brands by 2025; the remainder of the eggs procured by C&S, which are supplied to its grocery partners, will [...]
Keene, NH and Honolulu, HI – C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary Hawaiian Housewares Ltd. has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire the operations of Edsung Foodservice Company, located in Honolulu, HI. The sale is expected to close in late April 2016, at which point the Edsung business will be [...]
Keene, NH — C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. announces its support of The Edge of Leadership, a program that helps students develop leadership skills to improve the classroom learning environment, set positive examples, and effect positive change in themselves, their schools, and their community. Developed and implemented by High 5 Adventure Learning Center, Edge of Leadership’s [...]
Keene, NH — C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. announces it has relaunched its Community Involvement website dedicated to the positive contributions made by employees across the U.S. and the company’s involvement in the community. The site was originally created in 2009 and may be found at http://community.cswg.com. The new design includes fresh content and an insight [...]
Keene, NH – C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. announced today that it has acquired FreshKO Produce Services, Inc., based in Fresno, CA. The addition of FreshKO and its 142 employees to the C&S Family of Companies is directly aligned with C&S’s commitment to expand its fresh and organic produce business and its continued emphasis on servicing [...]
Keene, NH – During Hunger Action Month in September, C&S Wholesale Grocers announced grants to food banks and other initiatives to address domestic hunger. Contributions to Food Banks C&S made grants to 14 food banks in or near communities where the company has a presence. The focus of the contributions was on child hunger, primarily [...]
Keene, NH – C&S Charities, Inc. is proud to announce that it donated a total of $2 million to six non-profit organizations devoted to pediatric cancer and childhood hunger issues through its annual “Tee Up For Kids®” charity golf outing. The outing, which was held on August 4 and 5, 2015, celebrated its 30th anniversary [...]
Keene, NH – C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc., its family of companies, and its associates across the country surpassed $2 million in donations for communities during the 2015 United Way campaign. More than 6,000 associates made donations during the workplace campaign held in May at 44 locations in 19 states. Contributions were matched dollar-for-dollar by the [...]