- March 28, 2024
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BONITA SPRINGS — Specialty foods distributor Innovative Food Holdings opened a Chicago-area distribution center to supply its growing number of customers.
Innovative Food subsidiary Artisan Specialty Foods opened the 28,000-square-foot distribution center in Broadview, Ill. Founded in 2004 as a small distributor to local restaurants, Artisan now has hundreds of customers in the Chicago metro area, the company says.
“The new customized build out, integration and warehouse transition to this new facility went seamlessly due to the hard work of our talented and dedicated team at Artisan Specialty Foods,” says Justin Wiernasz, president of Innovative Food, in a statement.
Bonita Springs-based Innovative Food also uses the Chicago facility to distribute specialty foods to chefs nationwide. “We continue to see strength in the Artisan business and expect this distribution facility to help drive growth with our current local chefs and customers, and to also help facilitate further national sales growth across Innovative Foods' subsidiaries.”
Innovative Food distributes more than 7,000 specialty food items to chefs around the country. It plans to spin off its direct-to-consumer Fresh Diet business as a separate publicly held company.