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Produce distributors in Los Angeles

Los Angeles has two wholesale produce markets half a mile apart, and the newer one, which was built in 1986 to replace the older one, has no website at all. Seven of the distributors below trade from it, and because the market publishes nothing, their suite numbers come from the companies themselves.

  • 18 suppliers, verified in September 2026 against each company's own website.
  • Seven trade from 1601 E Olympic Boulevard. The market publishes nothing, so their suite numbers come from their own sites.
  • Vernon, Commerce, Irwindale and City of Industry are separate cities, not Los Angeles. Each card says where a supplier really is.
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SGS Produce

Every produce distributor we verified in Los Angeles

Filter by what they carry, how the business is set up, who they sell to, how you can buy, and where they are. 17 of 18 publish a phone number and 17 publish a street address; where a company does not, the field is left out rather than filled in.

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Valley Fruit and Produce

Regional distributorLA Wholesale Produce Market

The largest distributor on the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market by its own account, running daily deals on more than 100 commodities from its Building 300 suites and a 95,000 square foot warehouse in the Alameda Trade Center across the street. Three divisions: Valley Wholesale, Valley Retail Management, and Continental Sales, which handles export by land and sea.

  • The largest distributor on the market, in its own words
  • Daily deals on over 100 commodities, from rambutan to head lettuce
  • 95,000 sq ft warehouse with 10 separately controlled coolers

Named programmes

Valley WholesaleContinental SalesValley Chopp'd

Serves: Independent retailers, Foodservice purveyors, Distributors, K-12 schools

Address
1601 E. Olympic Blvd, Suite 300, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(213) 627-8736
Delivers
California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Idaho
Visit valleyproduce.com

Umina Brothers

Regional distributorLA Wholesale Produce MarketEst. 1914

The oldest company on this page, and the one whose history is the market's history. Founded in New York in 1914, moved to Los Angeles a decade later to sell citrus and wine grapes, traded on the 7th Street Market for decades, and moved into the new Olympic Boulevard market when it opened in 1986. Now a full-line house with its own groves in the Central Valley and an export operation in Oxnard.

  • Trading since 1914, on both of LA's produce markets
  • Own groves in the Central Valley
  • Export operation in Oxnard

Serves: Retailers, Foodservice distributors

Address
1601 East Olympic Blvd., Suite 405, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(213) 622-9206
Visit umina.com

Melissa's / World Variety Produce

Regional distributorVernon

The specialty produce house every Los Angeles chef has heard of, selling conventional and organic fruit and vegetables alongside exotics, farmer's market picks, microgreens, edible flowers, dried fruit, mushrooms, frozen fruit, juices and purees to culinary professionals from its Vernon warehouses.

  • Built around specialty and exotic lines, not commodity volume
  • Microgreens, edible flowers and farmer's market picks
  • Sells to culinary professionals rather than to the trade at large

Serves: Chefs, Restaurants, Hotels, Institutional foodservice

Address
5325 South Soto Street, Vernon, CA
Phone
(323) 584-4940
Visit melissasfarmfreshproduce.com

Coast Produce Company

Regional distributorProduce district

A family-owned Los Angeles produce house that has grown from one man selling a truckload of a single item a day into what it calls a produce supply chain integrator, handling procurement, mixing, transportation and retail support. Still owned and run by the Dunn family.

  • Started nearly 60 years ago with one man and one truckload
  • Procurement, mixing, transport and retail support in one company
  • Still owned and run by the founding family

Serves: Retailers

Address
1791 Bay Street, Los Angeles, CA
Phone
(213) 955-4900
Visit coastproduce.com

SGS Produce

Regional distributorProduce districtEst. 1907

A fifth-generation downtown produce house, trading as Shapiro-Gilman-Shandler since 1907, that sells to retailers, distributors and wholesalers and also rents out its capacity: cross-docking, consolidation and cold storage across 20 truck docks with street-level loading. USDA audited annually, HACCP certified, and certified TRUE Zero Waste. It has been owned by GrubMarket since 2021.

  • Fifth generation, trading since 1907
  • Rents cross-dock, consolidation and cold storage capacity to others
  • Owned by GrubMarket since 2021

Serves: Retailers, Distributors, Wholesalers

Address
739 Decatur Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(213) 593-1200
Visit sgsproduce.com

Worldwide Produce

Regional distributorAlameda corridor

A Los Angeles headquartered foodservice distributor running five climate-controlled distribution centres across California and Nevada, carrying fresh, frozen and specialty products plus a USDA federally inspected meat room, and selling to everyone from single restaurants to national chains.

  • Five climate-controlled distribution centres
  • USDA federally inspected meat room alongside produce
  • Single restaurants through to national chains

Serves: Restaurants, National chains, Institutional foodservice

Address
2652 Long Beach Ave, Unit 2, Los Angeles, CA, 90058
Phone
(213) 747-4411
Delivers
California and Nevada
Visit wwproduce.com

Professional Produce

Regional distributorVernonEst. 1994

A Vernon grower, shipper, packer and wholesale distributor two miles from downtown, running a 50,000 square foot warehouse with five coolers, 17 truck bays and an automated repack room that sorts fruit by quality, colour, size, count and weight. Around 150 full-time staff. The site does not say who it sells to, so that field is left empty here.

  • Grower, shipper, packer and distributor in one company
  • Automated repack room sorting by quality, colour, size and weight
  • 50,000 sq ft with five coolers and 17 truck bays
Address
2570 East 25th Street, Vernon, CA, 90058
Phone
(323) 277-1550
Visit profproduce.com

Nature's Produce

Regional distributorVernon

A Vernon foodservice house that calls itself one of the largest direct receivers of fresh produce for the Los Angeles foodservice industry, running its own refrigerated fleet, temperature and humidity controlled coolers, and a mobile ordering app. It sends every customer a weekly written market update on pricing, supply and quality, which almost nobody else in this trade publishes.

  • Weekly written market update on pricing, supply and quality
  • Own refrigerated fleet and mobile ordering app
  • One of the largest direct receivers for LA foodservice, by its own account

Serves: Restaurants, Institutional foodservice

Address
3305 Bandini Blvd., Vernon, CA, 90058
Phone
(323) 235-4343
Delivers
Los Angeles
Visit naturesproduce.com

Heath & Lejeune

Local specialistCity of CommerceEst. 1981

A CCOF-certified organic produce wholesaler trading as Soully Organic, founded in 1981 as an inbound brokerage and now a full-line organic distributor working from an 83,000 square foot warehouse with ten coolers and five temperature zones. It still provides consolidation and storage for other organic wholesalers and retailers.

  • Organic only, CCOF certified, since 1981
  • 83,000 sq ft with ten coolers and five temperature zones
  • Consolidates and stores for other organic wholesalers

Serves: Retailers, Other wholesalers

Address
1417 South Eastman Avenue, Commerce, CA, 90023
Phone
(213) 614-1909
Delivers
United States and Canada, with Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties named
Visit soullyorganic.com

Produce International

Local specialistLA Wholesale Produce Market

A market house in Building 300 supplying retail grocers and foodservice purveyors, and the exclusive Southern California distributor of Well-Pict Berries. Its 30,000 square foot facility runs a selling floor, refrigerated storage and a three-door dock, and its sales desk keeps market hours: midnight to 10am.

  • Sales desk open midnight to 10am, which is market time
  • Exclusive Southern California distributor for Well-Pict Berries
  • Selling floor, refrigerated storage and a three-door dock

Named programmes

Well-Pict Berries

Serves: Retail grocers, Foodservice purveyors

Address
1601 East Olympic Boulevard, Suite 308, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(213) 622-2228
Delivers
Southern California
Visit produceinternational.com

Maui Fresh International

Regional distributorLA Wholesale Produce MarketEst. 2007

A market house started by a growing family from the Sinaloa Valley, selling Hawaiian and Latin American fruit alongside a full line to retailers and foodservice distributors. It runs a store on the market floor and a separate warehouse on Long Beach Avenue.

  • Founded by a growing family from the Sinaloa Valley
  • Hawaiian and Latin American fruit alongside the full line
  • Store on the market floor plus a separate warehouse

Serves: Retailers, Restaurants, Hotels, Foodservice distributors

Address
1601 E. Olympic Blvd. #509-513, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(213) 688-0880
Delivers
Local, regional and national
Visit maui-fresh.com

LA Produce Distributors

Local specialistLA Wholesale Produce MarketEst. 2016

One of the newer houses on the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market, opened in 2016 by two friends with more than fifty years of produce experience between them, running seasonal availability lists on melons, citrus and a rotating line of fruit. The site does not say who it sells to, so that field is left empty here.

  • Opened on the market in 2016
  • Seasonal availability lists rather than a fixed catalogue
  • Melons, citrus and rotating fruit lines
Address
1601 East Olympic Blvd., Bldg. 100, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(562) 448-5555
Delivers
West Coast
Visit laproducedistributors.com

SJ Distribution

Local specialistLA Wholesale Produce Market

A grower-distributor in Building 100 of the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market, selling farm-direct fruit and vegetables and naming what it grows itself, including mandarins, pomegranates, medjool dates and Italian eggplant. The site does not say who it sells to, so that field is left empty here.

  • Grows part of its own line, and names which part
  • Mandarins, pomegranates, medjool dates and Italian eggplant
  • On the market floor in Building 100
Address
1601 E Olympic Blvd, Ste 101/102, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(323) 999-9950
Visit sj-distribution.com

Fresh Quality Produce

Regional distributorProduce district

A family produce business in the downtown district that has grown into a vertically integrated operation, farming and packing as well as importing and selling, and running grower programmes with three sister companies to keep a full line available year round.

  • Farms and packs as well as importing and selling
  • Grower programmes with three sister companies
  • Full line available year round

Serves: Retailers, Restaurants

Address
2022 Violet St., Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Phone
(213) 891-1122
Visit freshqualityproduce.com

Produce Services of Los Angeles

Regional distributorProduce district

A wholesale produce distributor built around the Southern California hospitality trade, running twenty refrigerated trucks six days a week across Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties from a facility it places two blocks from the wholesale produce market. It also carries pre-cut produce, dairy, dry goods and frozen. It publishes no street address, so that field is blank here.

  • Twenty refrigerated trucks, six days a week
  • Two blocks from the wholesale produce market, by its own description
  • Pre-cut produce, dairy, dry goods and frozen on the same order

Serves: Restaurants, Hotels, Institutional foodservice

Address
Los Angeles, CA
Phone
(800) 714-4871
Delivers
Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties
Visit pslainc.com

Charlie's Produce, Los Angeles

Regional distributorIrwindaleEst. 2015

The Los Angeles branch of a West Coast produce distributor, opened in 2015 out in Irwindale, covering Southern California, Arizona and Nevada with conventional, organic, specialty and value-added produce plus a full floral line, delivered daily to foodservice and retail.

  • West Coast group, LA branch opened 2015
  • Conventional, organic, specialty and value-added on one order
  • Floral line alongside the produce

Serves: Restaurants, Retailers

Address
5301 Rivergrade Rd, Irwindale, CA, 91706
Phone
(626) 509-1230
Delivers
Southern California, Arizona and Nevada
Visit charliesproduce.com

Restaurant Produce Service

Local specialistProduce district

A produce and dry goods delivery service for Los Angeles kitchens, selling on terms rather than scale: next-day delivery inside a two-hour window you choose, no minimum order, no delivery fee, and a 24-hour return for a full refund on anything you are not happy with. It works with restaurants and family-owned food trucks alike. The contact page carries a placeholder phone number, so no phone is listed here.

  • No minimum order and no delivery fee
  • Next-day delivery inside a two-hour window you choose
  • 24-hour return for a full refund

Serves: Restaurants, Food trucks, Caterers

Address
1480 Long Beach Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90021
Delivers
Greater Los Angeles
Visit restaurantproduceservice.com

FreshPoint Southern California

National broadlineCity of IndustryEst. 1921

The Southern California operating company of FreshPoint, which its own footer describes as a division of Sysco Corporation, and which calls itself North America's largest wholly-owned produce distributor. Established in 1921 as G&G Produce Co., it covers seven counties from City of Industry and runs fresh-cut and ripening programmes alongside the standard line. It is listed here as a broadline so you can filter it out if you want an independent.

  • A division of Sysco Corporation, in its own words
  • Trading since 1921, originally as G&G Produce Co.
  • Fresh-cut and ripening programmes across seven counties

Serves: Restaurants, Hotels, Institutional foodservice

Address
155 North Orange Avenue, City of Industry, CA, 91744
Phone
(626) 855-1400
Delivers
Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties
Visit freshpoint.com

The city has two produce markets, and neither has a website

In October 1986 the Los Angeles Times covered the dedication of the Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market at 1601 East Olympic Boulevard: a 90 million dollar facility, already fully leased, with 27 fruit and vegetable wholesalers inside and murals by Thomas Suriya on the wall. It was built to replace the old 7th Street Produce Market, and the tenants were reportedly already asking for more space.

Forty years later, seven of the distributors on this page trade from that building, and the market itself publishes no website. There is no merchant directory, no tenant list, no hours. Our Chicago produce page leans heavily on the Chicago International Produce Market's own directory, which gives every tenant's unit number and phone. Los Angeles has nothing equivalent, which is why the suite and building numbers below come from each company's own site instead.

The other surprise is that the market it replaced did not close. The 7th Street Produce Market still trades at ROW DTLA, half a mile away, open to the public overnight. So the city has two working wholesale produce markets, one of which was built to make the other unnecessary. Umina Brothers, founded in 1914 and the oldest company on this page, traded on 7th Street for decades before moving into the Olympic Boulevard market when it opened.

  • 1601 E Olympic Boulevard. The Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market, dedicated in 1986. Seven suppliers here trade from it, in Buildings 100, 300 and 500. It publishes no website.
  • The 7th Street Produce Market. At ROW DTLA, the market the 1986 building was meant to replace. Still trading, still overnight, and still open to the public.
  • The produce district around it. Violet Street, Bay Street, Decatur Street and Long Beach Avenue. Several houses sit within a few blocks of the market rather than inside it.
  • Vernon, Commerce, Irwindale and City of Industry. Independent cities where the larger warehouses are, because the land is cheaper and the yards are bigger. They are not Los Angeles, and the cards say so.

The kinds of supplier on this page

The useful division here is whether a company trades on the market floor, runs a warehouse in the industrial cities, or does both. That decides when you can collect, how early the sales desk answers, and whether you are buying from someone who took delivery this morning or someone who grew it.

Supplier typeCatalogueCuttingMinimumDeliveryBest for
Local specialist5 hereNarrow, protein onlyCuts to your specificationUsually negotiableScheduled, local routesMenus where the cut is the dish
Regional distributor12 hereBroader, may run past proteinSome, varies by houseSet per accountMulti-state or multi-marketGroups wanting fewer accounts
National broadline1 hereEverything, one invoicePortion programmes, fixed specsDrop-size drivenFixed schedule, wide coverageConsolidating staples and dry goods

The count column is computed from the listings above. The rest describes how each business model typically works, not a term any individual company has published. Minimums and delivery days are always set per account, so treat this as a shortlist tool, not a quote.

Eight roads carry the produce for a city of four million

Los Angeles is the one market in this directory that the federal government has studied directly. A September 2025 paper from the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service and the Volpe Center, on freight network performance around terminal wholesale produce markets, uses the Los Angeles terminal market as its worked example, and the numbers are worth knowing if you buy here.

706 counties supply agricultural products to the Los Angeles area, and the modelled demand fulfilled through the terminal market is 5,087,277 tons. All of that arrives on a startlingly thin road network: the study finds produce is routed on only eight major roadways within 90 miles of the market, and five within 25 miles. That is the whole funnel.

The study then tested what happens when part of it closes, using the early 2025 wildfires as the disruption. Everything was successfully rerouted, at a 4.3 percent increase in total transportation cost from origin to market. That is a small number and a reassuring one, but it is the measured cost of one event on a network with five roads in the last 25 miles. It is the clearest argument we have seen for why a kitchen should know more than one supplier's delivery route.

The shape of Los Angeles's supplier base

Counted from the 18 listings above. Change the view, then narrow by supplier type to see how the mix shifts.

Produce18
Fruit13
Vegetables13
Organic5
Citrus3
Dairy3
Dry goods3
Fresh cut3
Frozen3
Specialty3
Herbs2
Value added2
Berries1
Juice1
Meat1
Tropical1

18 suppliers in view. Bars count suppliers carrying each product line, so they add up to more than 18: most suppliers carry several.

Market hours, and what that means for your order

This trade runs overnight, and the published hours make that concrete. Produce International's sales desk on the market floor works midnight to 10am. The 7th Street market trades from midnight to noon, Monday to Saturday, and it is open to the public. If you have never bought produce at 3am, that is genuinely how a large part of this market works.

The distributors outside the market run more conventional hours but the same rhythm, because they are buying on the floor before they deliver to you. Nature's Produce sends every customer a weekly written market update on pricing, supply and quality, which is unusual enough that it is worth asking others for the same thing. Restaurant Produce Service goes the other way and sells on terms rather than scale: no minimum order, no delivery fee, next-day delivery in a two-hour window, and a 24-hour return.

The questions that decide whether an account works are the familiar four, minimum drop, delivery days, cut-off time and what happens on a short. In this city add a fifth: are you buying from someone on the market floor or from someone who bought there this morning. Both are legitimate, and the price difference has a reason behind it.

SupplierProduceFruitVegetablesOrganicFresh cutCitrusSpecialtyDry goodsDairyFrozenHerbsValue addedDeliversWalk-in counterSame-day availableShips nationally
Valley Fruit and Produce
Umina Brothers
Melissa's / World Variety Produce
Coast Produce Company
SGS Produce
Worldwide Produce
Professional Produce
Nature's Produce
Heath & Lejeune
Produce International
Maui Fresh International
LA Produce Distributors
SJ Distribution
Fresh Quality Produce
Produce Services of Los Angeles
Charlie's Produce, Los Angeles
Restaurant Produce Service
FreshPoint Southern California

A blank cell means the company does not list that line on its own site, not that it cannot get it. Most of these houses will source outside their published range for an account they want. Columns showing only one supplier are hidden to keep the grid readable.

1

Go to the market once, at night

Seven of these companies are in one building and the 7th Street market is open to the public overnight. An hour there tells you more than a week of calls.

2

Ask for the market report

Nature's Produce publishes a weekly written update on pricing, supply and quality. Ask your own supplier for the same and see what comes back.

3

Check the minimum before the price list

One supplier here publishes no minimum and no delivery fee. Most set both per account, and it decides whether they are an option at all.

4

Know which road your produce comes in on

The federal study found five major roadways carry it in the last 25 miles. Suppliers with different routes and different warehouses fail differently.

Two of these belong to somebody bigger

SGS Produce trades under the name Shapiro-Gilman-Shandler and describes itself as a fifth-generation family business, which it is, dating to 1907. It has also been owned by GrubMarket, a venture-backed food technology company, since 2021. Both things are true, and only one of them is on the front of the website.

FreshPoint Southern California is the clearer case, and we have listed it for that reason. Its own footer says it is a division of Sysco Corporation, so it is not passing as an independent. It was established in 1921 as G&G Produce Co. and covers seven counties from City of Industry. We label it a national broadline so you can filter it out in one click if you want an independent, but a produce buyer in Los Angeles who does not know FreshPoint is Sysco is exactly the reader this directory exists for.

That is the same test applied on every page here: the question is not whether a company is owned by somebody, it is whether you can find that out before you build a buying strategy around it. Where the answer is on the company's own site, we say so. Where it took a filing or a press release to establish, we say that too.

  • SGS Produce. Fifth generation since 1907, and owned by GrubMarket since 2021. Also rents cross-dock and cold storage capacity to other distributors, which is unusual.
  • FreshPoint Southern California. A division of Sysco, in its own words, trading since 1921 as G&G Produce Co. Filterable as a broadline.
  • The market houses are mostly independent. The seven suppliers inside 1601 E Olympic are family and founder-run businesses, including one founded in 1914 and one opened in 2016.

Unfiltered

What people say about buying produce in Los Angeles

23 comments quoted verbatim from public threads, researched specifically for this city rather than reused from elsewhere on the site.

r/FoodLosAngeles23 points
Little Tokyo Marketplace H Mart Northgate Superior Downtown at the wholesale produce vendor markets off of Olympic (bulk purchases typically)
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r/FoodLosAngeles10 points
Okay. Easiest route is to go to Olympic/Central to the wholesale produce markets. Years ago you could have just gone to Valley Fruit and Produce and bought everything there but company is going in a different direction and they don't hold a lot of inventory in that warehouse. So here's the companies to check out. Produce International for Berries, and Leaf vegetables Nutz Produce for Beans, Rice, primarily but they also do veggies like squashes Davalan and Cooseman for specialty stuff Aramburo for chiles and Mexican fruit and veggies Maui Produce for organic vegetables Umina has pretty much everything Coast Tropical also pretty much has everything Vera Bros for avocados Most shops there have an assortment of everything in season so just cause you see a box of avocados in one place doesn't mean you should buy it there. Ask around because good chance it'll be a dollar or two cheaper in another shop. Lastly. All these places open at midnight and close at maybe 8am give or take.
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r/FoodLosAngeles6 points
LA Wholesale Produce Market is the largest complex and it houses multiple vendors. It’s at 16011 Olympic Blvd. at Central Ave. The Wholesale Produce Market is at 746 Market Ct. off of Central. Also multivendor. There are other smaller businesses in the area that mostly cater to restaurants, but I’ve never had an issue buying a case of corn or strawberries or 76 watermelons for that matter. Cash is King.
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r/FoodLosAngeles6 points
Near Alameda & 7th, theres the LA produce market. It opens very early. It bigger than a city block. Last time I was there it was cash only.
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r/LosAngeles5 points
If anyone does go to the 7th street market they should know all of the businesses open at 12am or 1am and usually close at 10am the latest.
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r/LosAngeles4 points
You are going to want to go to downtowns produce market where they sell wholesale. 7th street produce market https://rowdtla.com/collective/7th-street-produce-market
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Pulled from 80 Los Angeles threads across r/LosAngeles, r/AskLosAngeles, r/FoodLosAngeles and r/KitchenConfidential. Its own corpus: no comment here appears on any other page of this site. Comments are unedited and link back to the original thread. They are individual experiences, not evidence about any distributor in general, and we deliberately do not aggregate them into a score.

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Questions

Produce distributors in Los Angeles: common questions

Where is the LA wholesale produce market?

The Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market is at 1601 East Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90021. It was dedicated in October 1986 as a 90 million dollar facility with 27 wholesalers, built to replace the older 7th Street Produce Market. It publishes no website, no merchant directory and no hours, so the suite numbers for the seven suppliers here that trade from it come from each company's own site.

Is the old 7th Street produce market still open?

Yes. It still trades at ROW DTLA, about half a mile from the market that was built in 1986 to replace it, and it is open to the public overnight, from midnight to noon Monday to Saturday. So Los Angeles has two working wholesale produce markets. Umina Brothers, founded in 1914 and the oldest company on this page, traded on 7th Street for decades before moving to Olympic Boulevard.

Can a restaurant buy at the Los Angeles produce market?

At the 7th Street market, yes, it is open to the public overnight. At the 1601 East Olympic market the houses are wholesale businesses with their own terms, though several publish walk-in or pickup as an option, and Produce International's sales desk works from midnight to 10am. As always the terms are per account, so it comes down to a phone call, ideally an early one.

How does produce actually reach Los Angeles?

On very few roads. A September 2025 USDA and Volpe Center study of terminal produce markets uses Los Angeles as its worked example and finds that 706 counties supply the area, that the modelled demand fulfilled is 5,087,277 tons, and that produce is routed on only eight major roadways within 90 miles of the market and five within 25 miles. When the early 2025 wildfires closed parts of that network, everything rerouted at a measured 4.3 percent increase in total transportation cost.

What is the minimum order for a Los Angeles produce distributor?

It is set per account by almost everyone, which is normal for the trade. The exception on this page is Restaurant Produce Service, which publishes no minimum order and no delivery fee, with next-day delivery inside a two-hour window. If you are too small for a delivery minimum elsewhere, the 7th Street market is open to the public overnight and several market houses list walk-in or pickup.

Are any Los Angeles produce distributors owned by larger companies?

Two on this page are. SGS Produce is a genuine fifth-generation family business dating to 1907 and has been owned by GrubMarket since 2021. FreshPoint Southern California states on its own site that it is a division of Sysco Corporation, and was established in 1921 as G&G Produce Co. We list FreshPoint as a national broadline so you can filter it out, rather than leaving it off, because knowing it is Sysco is more useful than not seeing it.

Is this directory paid or independent?

No distributor paid to be listed and there are no affiliate links to any of them. The directory is published by VoiceOrder Solutions, an ordering software company, and that relationship is disclosed in the footer of every page and on our about page. Listings are ordered by supplier type, not by any commercial relationship.

How was this list of Los Angeles produce distributors built?

We ran search passes for Los Angeles wholesale produce suppliers, tried to find a directory for both wholesale markets, and then captured each candidate company's own website and read the details off it, in September 2026. Everything listed is in Los Angeles County, with the real municipality shown where a supplier is in Vernon, Commerce, Irwindale or City of Industry. Companies were excluded for being outside the county, for being grower-shippers rather than local distributors, and for having no capturable website.

A note on what is missing

Two known gaps. Greco and Sons, a large Chicago Italian foodservice distributor now being acquired by Sysco, is not listed because its site blocked our capture and we would not write it up from third-party sources. Stock Yards is a US Foods brand rather than an independent distributor, so it appears under US Foods rather than as its own listing. If you run a Los Angeles produce distribution business and we have missed you, that is an omission rather than a judgement.

Listings verified September 2026. Details change; always confirm terms on a call.