Nicholas & Company awarded “Distribution Center of the Year”
Salt Lake City, Utah – December 15, 2010
Nicholas & Company was awarded Distribution Market Advantage’s (DMA) first Distribution Center of the Year Award at DMA’s annual conference held at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona, on November 17, 2010.
As the inaugural winner of Distribution Center of the Year Award, Nicholas & Company was given this award based upon the criteria of 1) high customer satisfaction scores, 2) support of developing markets, and 3) overall fill rate and sales growth.
Bob Sala, President and CEO of DMA commented “Nicholas & Company received this award because of their great performance and placement in the top ten percent of all warehouses for fill rates, top five percent in customer satisfaction, and near perfect scores in inventory management.” Nicholas & Company was selected from over 80 warehouses in the DMA network.
About Nicholas & Company
Since 1939, Nicholas & Company has been a family-owned, local, independent foodservice distributor delivering to the intermountain west. Their corporate office and distribution center is located in Salt Lake City, Utah, providing over 500 jobs in the local community. Nicholas & Company won their ninth consecutive Work/Life award this year and was honored with the Best of the Best of State statue this summer, their fourth Best of State award. About DMA For more than twenty years, DMA has been providing multi-unit foodservice operators with access to the best regional broadline distributors in the nation. DMA is a national foodservice distribution system whose shareholders are prominent regional foodservice distributors. They provide foodservice operators with the pricing, distribution and technological advantages of a national organization, and the service priority of a local business.