Apr 27, 2007 9:34 AM

Spartan Stores Inc has expanded a distribution supply relationship with Martin’s Super Markets, an independent supermarket retailer headquartered in South Bend IN with locations in southwest Michigan and north central Indiana.

his supply relationship will expand to include frozen products, dairy, dry groceries, and Spartan’s portfolio of corporate private label brands as well as health and beauty care products, general merchandise, and pharmacy products. The relationship includes all of Martin’s Super Market’s 20 Indiana- and Michigan-based retail grocery stores.

Grand Rapids MI-based Spartan Stores is the nation’s 10th-largest grocery distributor with warehouse facilities in Grand Rapids and Plymouth MI. The company distributes more than 40,000 private-label and national brand products to more than 350 independent grocery stores in Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.