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Nash Finch Company
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Nash Finch Company, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is a Fortune 500 company and the second largest, publicly traded wholesale food distributor in the United States. Nash Finch distributes grocery products and provides support services to a variety of retail formats including; conventional supermarkets, military commissaries and exchanges, multicultural stores and extreme value stores. Nash Finch started as a family-owned business back in 1885 when the Nash Brothers; Fred, Edgar, and Willis ran a small candy and tobacco store in Devils Lake, North Dakota. The first non-family employee, Harry B. Finch joined the Nash Brothers as a 14-year old stock boy in 1889 and worked his way up in the organization. In subsequent years, the company became known as the Nash-Finch Company with Harry as the company president. With more than 8,000 associates, Nash Finch is a large company with a small-company feel. It’s an exciting time to be a part of Nash Finch Company as the company grows its food distribution, military businesses and opens new retail store formats. Nash Finch is a fast-paced work environment where associates have a hand in doing work with a purpose—serving independent retailers, military heroes and local communities. Nash Finch’s core business, food distribution, serves independent and corporate-owned retailers and military commissaries and exchanges in 39 states, the District of Columbia, Europe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Azores and Egypt.