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Foster's Inc.
Since its founding at the turn of the 20th Century, Foster's has grown into a premier wholesaler of garden, lawn and landscape supplies in the Upper Midwest. But it didn't start out that way. Founder Victor B. Foster started out as one of the largest cream suppliers in the nation in Waterloo, Iowa, and acquired a small coal company in the ‘20s to complement the business.
The Great Depression ruined the dairy industry, but coal came out on top and the business thrived. In the 1930s, Foster's took a seed and mill business as a tenant, and later bought the seed inventory, starting the expansion into home and garden supplies. It opened distribution centers in Green Bay and Minneapolis in the 1980s and ‘90s before consolidating them into one in Rogers, Minnesota in the 1990s.
Find out more about Foster's at www.fostersinc.com
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