• 1853 Monarch Food traced back to Reid Murdoch Co, a wagon train provisioner
• 1883 John Sexton & Co begins as a tea merchant in Chicago
• 1911 S.E. Rykoff & Co was established
• 1946 PYA forms as a school food distributor
• 1971 PYA and Monarch merge
• 1972 S.E. Rykoff goes public
• 1983 S.E. Rykoff acquires Sexton & Co
• 1988 Phillip Morris Acquires Kraft Foodservice
• 1989 PYA Monarch creates JPF Holdings
• 1990 JP Foodservice exceeds $1 billion in sales.
• 1995 Rykoff-Sexton is the 2nd largest distributor, Kraft Foodservice the 3rd largest, US Foodservice is the 4th largest, JP Foodservice the 5th largest, and JP the 6th largest distributor
• 1995 Phillip Morris sells Kraft Foodservice which becomes Alliant Foodservice
• 1996 S.E. Rykoff and US Foodservice merge
• 1997 JP acquires US Foodservice and retains US Foodservice name
• 2000 Royal Ahold acquires US Foodservice
• 2001 US Foodservice acquires Alliant
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