Associated Wholesale Grocers plans to invest $110 million to upgrade its distribution hub in Southeast Louisiana, state and company officials announced.
AWG, which says it is the nation’s largest food wholesale cooperative, intends to install advanced automation technologies at the Pearl River facility, which would, in turn, improve order accuracy, streamline the campus’ operations, and enhance its supply chain across the region.
Construction is expected to begin early next year and be completed by November of 2027; officials did not indicate that the project would add more jobs at the hub, which currently employs 334 people.
Louisiana Economic Development officials said that the state had offered AWG an incentive package that included a $500,000 grant.
“AWG is excited to partner once again with St. Tammany Parish and LED on this exciting new project within our Gulf Coast Division Support Center – our network’s largest conventional grocery division,” Richard Kearns, AWG’s executive vice president, distribution and logistics said in a statement.
AWG, based in Kansas City, Kansas, operates 10 facilities in the U.S.
