Three New Distributors Join Golbon Foodservice Marketing Group

BOISE, ID (August 21, 2013)—Golbon, a foodservice marketing group, announced the addition of three new members: Ashland Specialty Co., LLC, ATI Provisions LLC and Trade Supplies, Inc.

Ashland Specialty is a convenience store wholesale distributor servicing grocery and convenience store customers within a 150-mile radius of Ashland, Ky., including counties in Ohio and West Virginia. They carry a full line of convenience store items and have joined Golbon to grow the foodservice-at-retail segment of their business.

ATI Provisions services the northeast in the New Jersey, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania markets, focusing on independent operators. The company, along with a network of small independent distributors, are the exclusive supplier of Freda Branded meats throughout the Northeast. With Golbon's supplier partners at hand, they plan to further expand their product offering.

Trade Supplies has been servicing the California market since 1972 with non-food and janitorial products. Trade Supplies’ customer base consists of independent operators, national chains, schools, healthcare, hotels and government bids.The company plans to expand their growing dry and canned category to complement their existing product lines.

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