About

I started Greatland Foods as a Food Brokerage Company in 1958 having gained valuable experience with General Mills in Seattle beginning 1947. In 1952, I was invited to join a Food Broker in Alaska. We represented nine major food lines, twenty-seven liquor lines and two clothing lines. We covered the state and had something to sell in almost every village or town in which we stopped. In 1957 General Mills called and asked if I would represent their company. I said “yes”. Alaska’s population was approximately 250,000 at that time and within a year we were representing General Mills, Crown Zellerbach, Hunt Foods, Frito Lay, M&M Mars, Wrigley Gum, and Folgers Coffee. At that time there was only one wholesale grocer here and that one carried very little stock. Also, with only one boat arriving each week from Seattle, handling just one line was out of the question. As the population and business grew, we could see that the answer to continued growth and to show the manufacturer that we had the ability to service their needs, was to have adequate warehouse space. In 1984, we began building our present building which houses our offices, our 42,000 sq ft. warehouse and the adjacent 14,000 sq. ft. freezer here in Anchorage. This space plus using our refrigerated trucks immediately gave daily delivery to our wholesalers and the military. In addition, we have a 24,000 sq. ft. warehouse in Soldotna – centrally located on the Kenai Peninusla.