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Distributors

Carefully Curated Network

IMA members represent the largest regional distributor presence in their respective markets.

For over 25 years, we’ve stood solid ground in the vision and belief that partnership and growth are everything. The making of legacy. By embedding IMA into the business model, foodservice distributors move from transactional interactions to strategic collaboration, unlocking stronger market presence, increased profitability, and long-term loyalty.

Distributor Alliance

A Stronger Edge on a Larger Scale

IMA members represent the largest regional distributor presence in their respective markets. What makes them powerful is the alliance they have with other industry pioneers who share their vision of success – and the support of IMA behind them. Because the alliance offers a collaborative business planning process and robust EXCLUSIVE BRANDS portfolio, IMA distributor members are able to better compete on a national scale and differentiate themselves in the markets they serve.
Competitive opportunities don’t just present themselves as a result of sheer size. Through the exclusive partnership and its agile and strategy-centric culture, IMA provides:
  • Thorough business planning that delivers an optimized cost of goods at the item level to better meet the requirements of the market
  • Strategic and innovative marketing, member, and supplier networking events and other merchandising opportunities
  • A robust EXCLUSIVE BRANDS portfolio
  • The highest commitment to food safety and quality with a rigorous 10-step FSQA process
  • GS1 completeness and support
  • A state-of-the-art test kitchen for in-depth cuttings and R&D

Distributor Members Gain:

A Voice in Partnership

Members collaborate on strategy and supplier selection to drive growth.

Enhanced Profitability

Category insights and IMA expertise create the most competitive assortment strategy.

Long-Term Salience

Marketing and activation support through a growing and powerful EXCLUSIVE BRANDS portfolio drives sales enablement and brand engagement.

Reinforced Trust

Food safety and quality assurance leadership build confidence by mitigating risk and ensuring the highest product quality.
Harbor Foodservice

Harbor Foods

Harbor Foods has supplied the Pacific Northwest since 1923. Now operating across seven states, they serve restaurants, retailers, and grocers through a network built over five generations and more than 100 years of family ownership. Today they're the largest family-owned independent distributor in the region, still run by the family that started it and still focused on the operators who built it with them. Life happens around the table, and Harbor Foods is proud to play a role in setting that table.
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Nicholas and Company

Nicholas and Company

Serving an eight state area, Nicholas and Company is an independent broadline foodservice distributor providing a wide range of resources to meet customers’ needs. Everything from their team of specialists to national alliances, and their knowledge and expertise on products moves business forward. Nicholas and Company’s Greek heritage and passion is a driving force to delivering the highest quality products and services. They are passionate about food. They are passionate about family. They are passionate about their community. And they are passionate about their customers’ success!
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PFG

Performance Food Group

Built on the many proud histories of our family of companies, Performance Food Group is a customer-centric foodservice distribution leader headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Grounded by roots that date back to a grocery peddler in 1885, PFG today has a nationwide network of over 100 distribution facilities, thousands of talented associates and valued suppliers across the country. With the goal of helping our customers thrive, we market and deliver quality food and related products to over 200,000 locations including independent and chain restaurants, schools, business and industry locations, healthcare facilities, vending distributors, office coffee service distributors, big-box retailers, theaters and convenience stores.
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Shamrock Foods

Shamrock Foods

Founded in 1922, Shamrock Foods Company is an innovator in the food industry specializing in the manufacturing and distribution of food and food-related products through its family of companies including Shamrock Foods – the largest independent foodservice distributor in the West, and top five in the United States – and Shamrock Farms, one of the largest family-owned and operated dairies nationwide.
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Y Hara

Y. Hata & Company

Y. Hata is the largest independent, family-owned foodservice distributor servicing the islands of Oahu, Kauai, Hawaii, and Maui. Founded in 1913, the company is a third-generation family owned business and is now recognized as the premier foodservice distributor, dedicated to bringing superior products and services to customers in their market region.
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