EXCLUSIVEBRANDSOURCING RETAILER/WHOLESALER ...

Procurement Contacts: Rita Kessell, Private Label Brand Manager
U.S. FOODSERVICE
9399 W. Higgins Rd., Suite 500, Rosemont, IL 60018 USA
Tel: (847) 720-8000
Fax: (847) 720-8099
www.usfoodservice.com
Total 2010 Sales: $19 billion (E)
Percentage of Sales in Exclusive Brands: 24%
Principal Business: U.S. Foodservice, the 2d largest U.S. broadline foodservice distributor for
food and related products (43,000+ national, private label and signature brand items) to more than
350,000 foodservice customers, including restaurants, hotels, health care facilities, cafeterias,
schools, business and industry. Some of its predecessor companies, such as Monarch Foods and
John Sexton and Co., trace their histories back to the 19th Century.
EB Identities: 24 identities listed managed by its Monarch Foods Division, including: Chef’s Line,
Glenview Farms, Harvest Value, Metro Deli, Molly’s Kitchen, Patuxent Farms, etc.
EB skus: 10,000+
Profile: Formed from the 1997 merger of JP Foodservice, Inc. and Rykoff-Sexton, Inc., this
company followed up with four more acquisitions, until in April 2000, Royal Ahold of The
Netherlands (also in this database) took over, while also adding PYA/Monarch. Via resolutions
of an account scandal at U.S. Foodservice, that business in July 2007 was sold by Ahold (a belttightening
measure) for $ 7.1 billion to two private equity firms, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Fund
VII, L.P. (“CD&R”) and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co L.P. (“KKR”) . Recently, U.S.
Foodservice’s Monarch Food Group cut its portfolio of 60 exclusive brands down to 25.
Procurement Contacts: Mark Kaiser, Executive Vice-President, Marketing & Procurement