Western Family Foods

This article is about the United States Western Family private label brand. For the Canadian Western Family private label brand, see Save On Foods.

Western Family Foods

Formerly	Pacific Mercantile Cooperative
Type	Private
Industry	Private Label
Founded	March 3, 1934 (1934-03-03)
Defunct	2016 (2016)
Fate	Acquired by Topco
Successor	Food Club
Headquarters	Tigard, Oregon, U.S.
Key people	Ron King, CEO
Revenue	$730M (2014)
Number of employees	72 (2012)
Website	www.westernfamily.com

Western Family Foods was founded as the Pacific Mercantile Cooperative on March 3, 1934, by a group of retailer-owned grocery wholesalers. Western Family Foods was established December 19, 1963. The company supplied independent grocery stores with store brands. It is based in Tigard, Oregon. It used to distribute the Western Family, Shurfine, Shursaving, MarketChoice, and Better Buy brands, which were used in many independently owned supermarkets. On June 13, 2016, Western Family Foods announced that they had been acquired by Topco and closed their Tigard office later in 2016.

References

• "Western Family, the 'quiet giant,' gets into organics". Portland Business Journal. 2008-07-06. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
• "'Enviro Green' line of foods introduced by Western Family". Lewiston Morning Tribune. May 5, 1990.

External links

• Western Family Foods web site