Unified Grocers ("Unified") is a retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that provides grocery products and services to independent retailers throughout the Western United States. Unified and its subsidiaries offer independent retailers all the resources they need to compete in today's supermarket industry.

Unified Grocers is an organization that generates approximately $4 billion in annual sales. This sales volume represents the combination of Unified's 2007 sales volume (approximately $3 billion) and the sales volume of Associated Grocers, Inc., Seattle, Washington (approximately $1 billion), which was acquired by Unified on September 30, 2007. As the largest wholesale grocery cooperative in the West, Unified now serves independent retailers from Seattle to San Diego, from El Paso to Boise and to Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Rim.

Unified Grocers was founded in 1922 under the name Certified Grocers of California by 15 independent retail grocers who wanted to improve the efficiency of their businesses by combining their resources and forming a cooperative. The Company's first grocery purchase, a carload of soap, was literally divided among the founding members in a Southern California rail yard.

Over the years, Unified Grocers has enjoyed steady and consistent growth and has celebrated several milestones - the Company purchased its first warehouse in 1931, introduced its Springfield line of private label products in 1947, generated $1 billion in annual sales in 1977 and passed $2 billion in annual sales in 1997. In 1999, the Company changed its name to Unified Western Grocers after merging with United Grocers, Inc., a $1 billion grocery cooperative based in Portland Oregon.

In May, 2007, as part of an initiative to strengthen its corporate brand and image in the marketplace, the Company changed its name again, this time to "Unified Grocers" and is now conducting business under that designation.