Parent organization Associated Wholesalers | ||
Headquarters Carteret, New Jersey, United States | ||
White Rose Food Division (est. 1886) of DiGiorgio Corporation is the largest independent food wholesaler and distributor in the New York metropolitan area. It is mainly distributed at Met Foods and Pioneer and has a large presence in the supermarket Western Beef. White Rose food can also be found in Thriftway/Shop'n'Bag stores in the Philadelphia, PA region.
White Rose utilizes power from KDC Solar and has the second-largest rooftop solar panel in Carteret, New Jersey.
Associated Wholesalers, Inc. ("AWI"), a regional cooperative food distributor, today announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement (the "APA") with C&S Wholesale Grocers ("C&S") pursuant to which C&S will acquire substantially all of AWI’s assets, including its White Rose distribution business. Under terms of the APA, C&S will serve as the "stalking horse bidder" in a court-supervised auction process. Accordingly, the APA is subject to higher and otherwise better offers, among other conditions.
They went out of business in 2014. Moot point.