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Web-based purchasing cuts food distribution fleet costs

Published Saturday, March 01, 2003

Wholesale food distributors such as Bozzuto's in Cheshire, Connecticut, report savings of 10% to 15% by using FoodFleetXchange, a purchasing partnership of Food Distributors International, the American Wholesale Marketers Association, and the Food Marketing Institute that is managed by AmeriQuest Transportation and Logistics Resources Corp. The savings have been focused on consumable items such as tires and batteries. In its more than 50 years of operation, Bozzuto's has grown from a small distributor into a regional cooperative wholesaler with sales of more than $900 million annually. The company supplies groceries and perishables to 550 supermarkets from its 1 ...

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