Gordon Food Service acquires Perkins




Gordon Food Service, a family company that is the U.S.’s fourth-largest foodservice distributor, will acquire the Perkins restaurant supply business, a 97-year-old family firm based in Taunton, Mass.

The

Patriot Ledger

reported

that the acquisition enables Gordon Food Service to increase its presence in the New England market. Gordon will keep the Perkins name, at least for the time being, and has no immediate plans to cut jobs, according to the report.

The Michigan website

MLive.com said

third-generation members Gary and Larry Perkins will continue to lead Perkins’ 635-member workforce.

Perkins began in 1915 as a clothing store and then branched out into the supply business by selling paper and twine to other local merchants. Perkins entered the food service market in the 1980s when the Mister Donut chain, later sold to Dunkin’ Donuts, asked the company to deliver food ingredients, the

Patriot Ledger

article said.

Perkins had acquired more than 20 companies in the past decade, the Patriot Ledger article said. (Sources:

Patriot Ledger,

Feb. 2, 2012; MLive.com, Feb. 6, 2012.)

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