Affiliated Foods Southwest

Affiliated Foods Southwest was a cooperative wholesale food distributor in Little Rock, Arkansas. The company, which specialized in serving the Mid-South independent grocer market, is currently in receivership. One division of the company still in business is Supermarket Investors Inc., which owns a number of Harvest Foods, Piggly-Wiggly, and Sav-Marts in Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma.

The company was founded in 1956. Into the early 21st century it was one of the largest employers in Pulaski County.

References

• David Smith, "Affiliated Foods Files Chapter 11; Jobs Lost," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, May 6, 2009.
• David Smith, "Questions Linger in Affiliated Foods Postmortem," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, August 23, 2009.