PHILADELPHIA & MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arctic Glacier, LLC, a leading provider of premium ice products and related services announces today the acquisition of Mid-Central Ice, a leading producer of high-quality packaged ice for customers across Minnesota and North Dakota. The transaction, along with the March 22, 2021 acquisition of Norton Ice in Kansas, builds on Arctic Glacier’s well established Midwest Region and further increases the ice company’s production and distribution capabilities to service customers across North America.
“We are very pleased to welcome the customers and associates of both Mid-Central Ice and Norton Ice to the Arctic Glacier team. Each of these companies bring to us outstanding reputations built on decades of experience providing high-quality ice and superior service to their customers. With these acquisitions we are further reinforcing our ongoing commitment to make investments which provide the greatest value for our customers,” said Richard Wyckoff, CEO and President of Arctic Glacier, LLC.
Mid-Central Ice has provided high-quality cubed ice to supermarkets, c-stores, gas stations and recreational customers in Minnesota and the surrounding states for over 25 years. The company boasts a modern ice production and distribution facility in Perham, MN.
Dave Chase, President and Founder of Mid-Central Ice said, “Arctic Glacier is a first-class organization with the depth of resources to offer excellent career opportunities for our employees and deliver the highest-quality of premium ice and service to our customers.”
Norton Ice has provided high-quality ice to a diverse customer base including c-stores, the entire grocery sector as well as recreational customers in Kansas since 1983. The ice company’s newly built state-of-the-art production plant in Norton, KS, along with Mid-Central’s automated production facilities, will add significant capacity to Arctic Glacier.
ABOUT ARCTIC GLACIER, LLC
Arctic Glacier is a North American provider of premium ice products and services. For over twenty-five years the company has been bringing more to the party by perfecting the ice making and DSD (delivery) process to provide the purest, most high-quality ice products. Annually, the company produces and delivers over 2 billion pounds of premium ice to supermarkets, mass merchants, c-stores, dollar stores, gas stations, liquors stores, as well as many other commercial and industrial businesses. From its headquarters in Philadelphia, PA and 51 production facilities and 60 warehouses and distribution centers across the United States and Canada, Arctic Glacier services over 75,000 customers.
Learn how Arctic Glacier is bringing more to the party at arcticglacier.com.
