With headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Gordon Food Service employs 17,000 individuals across its GFS Marketplaces in Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, with parts of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Wisconsin also receiving distributions. The first GFS Marketplace was located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Gordon Food Service started out as a humble business delivering butter and eggs over a century ago. Today, the company is the largest family-owned broadline foodservice distributor in Northern America and one of the biggest private companies in the US. A lot has happened since 1897 and the company has have had its fair share of excitement. What holds true from Day 1 until now though is the values that the founder Isaac van Westenbrugge had imbibed when Gordon Food Service began: integrity, reliability, and hard work are the only business practices that matter. To the company, devotion to customer satisfaction is essential.
With headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Gordon Food Service employs 17,000 individuals across its GFS Marketplaces in Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, with parts of West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Wisconsin also receiving distributions. The first GFS Marketplace was located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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