Central Grocers Cooperative

Central Grocers Cooperative, founded in 1917, is a retailers' cooperative based in Joliet, Illinois, near Chicago. It distributes both brand name and private label goods branded as Centrella and Silver Cup Value Buy to about 240 member-owner grocery stores in Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. It owns several grocery stores in Indiana and Illinois—former members of the cooperative that were acquired by the cooperative, including: Strack and Van Til, Town & Country, Key Market, and Ultra Foods. It also purchased a number of former Cub Foods locations in the Chicago area, some of which it operates as Strack and Van Til and Ultra Foods, and others are operated by a member. Fellow co-op Certified Grocers Midwest merged into Central Grocers...