Performance Food Group Company (PFG) is an American food service distributor. It is the third-largest food service distributor in the U.S., after Sysco and US Foods. The company supplies 250,000 products to 300,000 locations including independent restaurants, chain restaurants, healthcare, hospitality, and educational institutions. It has 155 distribution centers.[1]
It has three divisions: Foodservice, which distributes food products to restaurants (53% of 2025 revenues); Convenience, which distributes food products to convenience and grocery stores (39% of 2025 revenues); and Specialty, which distributes candy, snacks, and beverages (8% of 2025 revenues).[1]
The company is ranked 80th on the Fortune 500[2] and 1129th on the Forbes Global 2000.[3]
History
The company traces its roots to a business founded by James Capers in 1885 in Richmond, Virginia. It later became Pocahontas Foods.[4]
The company became Performance Food Group in 1987.[5]
In 2008, the company was acquired by investment funds managed by Wellspring Capital Management and Blackstone Inc. for $1.3 billion and it was merged with Vistar and Roma Foods.[6]
In October 2015, the company became a public company via an initial public offering.[7]
In May 2017, Blackstone sold its remaining stake in the company.[8]
Acquisitions
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References
- Performance Food Group Company 2025 Form 10-K Annual Report U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, August 13, 2025^
- Fortune 500: Performance Food Group Fortune^
- Forbes: Performance Food Group Forbes^
- ID NEWS: Pocahontas announces umbrella name, also, new group Restaurant Business, March 21, 2003^
- Going to Extremes U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, April 29, 2002^
- Equity Firms Acquiring Food Supplier The New York Times, January 19, 2008^
- Jonathan Maze. Performance Food Group has a modest IPO Nation's Restaurant News, October 1, 2015^
- Blackstone Successfully Exits Performance Food Group Company with $388 Million Secondary Offering Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, May 18, 2017^
- COMPANY NEWS; PERFORMANCE FOOD IS BUYING Springfield Foodservice The New York Times, July 27, 2001^
- Performance Food to buy Springfield Foodservice for $85 million American City Business Journals, July 23, 2001^
- Performance Food Group Company Reports Third-Quarter and First-Nine Months Fiscal 2019 Results U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, May 8, 2019^
- Morgan Forde. Distributor Performance Food Group to acquire Reinhart Foodservice for $2B Industry Dive, July 2, 2019^
- Praveen Paramasivam. Performance Food Group to buy peer Core-Mark in $2.5 billion deal Reuters, May 18, 2021^
- Performance Food to buy foodservice distributor Cheney Bros for $2.1 bln Reuters, August 14, 2024^