Food and beverage 3PLs
Food fulfillment is a race against the date on the package. Here is what a food-grade 3PL should prove before you send your first pallet, and 3PLs that work with food and beverage brands.
Look for a current third-party food safety audit such as SQF or BRCGS, plus FDA food facility registration. Ask for the latest score and any corrective actions.
Ambient, cool, refrigerated or frozen. Ask where each range is held, how it is monitored, how often it is logged, and what happens when an alarm goes off at 2 a.m.
For perishables, ask how they choose coolant and insulation by destination and season, and whether they hold shipments before weekends.
Retailers and distributors often reject product below a set shelf life. Your 3PL should pick earliest-expiry first and block lots below your minimum.
FDA food traceability rules ask for lot-level records on many foods. Make sure lots are captured on receiving and recorded on every shipment.
If you sell allergen-free or certified organic products, ask how they keep them separate and whether the facility holds the certification you need.
A short list of 3PLs whose own websites say they serve this specialty.
68 of 68 3PLs
Farmingdale, NY · also NJ
Farmingdale, New York 3PL with facilities on Long Island and in Edison, New Jersey, permitted by the New York and New Jersey liquor authorities to store wine and spirits. Offers FDA-registered storage for food and beverage, pick and pack, ecommerce dropship, kitting and transportation.
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles 3PL running several facilities in Gardena and Burbank for ecommerce brands. Handles DTC, retail and Amazon prep, with lot and expiry controls aimed at supplement and beauty clients.
Warehouse system: ShipHero
Morristown, NJ
Family-owned Morristown, New Jersey 3PL (since 1979) with an FDA-registered, food-grade, USDA Organic-certified facility serving food, supplement, beauty and chemical brands. Lot tracking and FEFO are standard, alongside DOT hazmat handling, retail EDI compliance, kitting and FBA prep.
Kennesaw, GA · also IN, MS, PA, SC, TX
Food-grade, temperature-controlled 3PL warehousing company headquartered in Kennesaw, Georgia, with a multi-building Atlanta campus plus sites in Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, Indiana and Pennsylvania. Serves confectionery, food and beverage brands with ambient and mid-temperature storage, co-packaging, kitting, and retail-ready display builds.
Reno, NV · also CA, VA
Reno, Nevada 3PL founded in 1945 with warehouses in Reno, Winchester (VA) and Riverside (CA). Its Reno campus includes an AIB-rated food-grade facility and temperature-controlled space, and it supports retail distribution with EDI.
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 3PL near Port Everglades running an FDA-registered food facility for packaged food, beverages and supplements. Offers lot and expiration-date handling, Amazon FBA prep, kitting, and wholesale plus DTC order fulfillment.
Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, North Carolina warehousing, contract packaging and ecommerce fulfillment company with sites in Charlotte, Concord and Claremont. Holds an NC ABC permit for alcoholic beverages, offers food and beverage secondary packaging, ambient, temperature-controlled and hazardous storage, and EDI retail fulfillment with lot and expiry tracking.
Warehouse system: Cadence WMS
Portland, OR
Portland, Oregon warehousing and distribution company with a licensed food-grade, USDA organic-certified facility. Offers temperature- and humidity-controlled storage, beer and wine storage under OLCC license, and order fulfillment.
Morristown, NJ
Morristown, New Jersey 3PL running an FDA-registered, food-grade warehouse for supplement, food and beverage, organic and cosmetics brands. Offers lot and expiry (FEFO) tracking, kitting and subscriptions, Amazon FBA prep and EDI wholesale distribution.
Wheeling, IL · also CA, MD
Frozen and refrigerated storage and fulfillment provider based in the Chicago area, with additional facilities in California and Maryland. It handles DTC, subscription box and meal kit fulfillment, kitting, FBA prep and retail logistics for food and beverage brands.
Edison, NJ · also CA, IN, FL
Perishable food fulfillment specialist (formerly NutriFresh) with temperature-controlled facilities in California, Indiana, New Jersey and Florida, serving bakery, beverage, dessert, meal kit, meat, seafood and pet food brands. It records lots at receiving, picks by first-expired-first-out, and offers kitting and B2B case picking.
Warehouse system: Deposco
West Haven, CT
West Haven, Connecticut 3PL with a roughly 100,000 sq ft warehouse offering pick-pack-ship, retail and EDI shipping, assembly, refurbishment and personalization. It is FDA registered and holds a Connecticut Food Warehouse License for food storage.
Warehouses in FL, TX, UT
Boutique 3PL founded in 2017 with warehouses in Dallas, Salt Lake City and Jacksonville, handling DTC, B2B and CPG fulfillment. Works with cosmetics launches and packaged food and beverage brands, with custom kitting, POS displays and automated B2B order handling.
Waukegan, IL
North Chicago suburbs (Waukegan and Zion, Illinois) fulfillment provider that is FDA registered and ISO 9001 certified. Serves supplement, food and beverage, and beauty brands with lot tracking, FEFO, kitting, subscription boxes, FNSKU labeling for Amazon and retail/wholesale packaging.
Warehouse system: ASC Software
Warehouses in CA, MN, TX
3PL with facilities in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Houston serving health, beauty and consumer brands across DTC and retail. Runs its own WMS, with store and marketplace integrations powered by Extensiv.
Warehouse system: Extensiv
Wilmington, IL
Chicago-area 3PL with a 500,000 sq ft SQF, organic and kosher certified warehouse in Wilmington, Illinois. Serves food, beverage and nutraceutical brands with B2B/retail fulfillment, kitting and contract packaging including clean-room supplement bottling.
Kansas City, KS
Owner-operated perishable fulfillment company handling frozen, refrigerated and ambient orders for meal kit, seafood, meat and specialty food brands from five facilities. It runs its own FrostIQ order-rules platform and supports subscriptions, kitting, Amazon FBA/SFP and retail case and pallet orders.
Warehouses in NJ, NY
Long Island 3PL with warehouses in Brentwood and Central Islip, New York, and Burlington, New Jersey, licensed to warehouse wine and spirits in New York. Also offers food-grade and climate-controlled storage, supplement handling, kitting, retail-ready prep and lot traceability.
Warehouses in CA, FL, OR, TX, UT
Cold storage and perishable ecommerce fulfillment provider with frozen, chilled and dry capacity in Ormond Beach (FL), Denton (TX), Clearfield (UT), Clackamas (OR) and Colton (CA). Supports DTC and direct-to-business shipping for temperature-sensitive food and beverage products.
Warehouses in TX
Founder-operated 3PL with an FDA-registered, ISO-certified warehouse in Elgin, Texas, serving supplement, health and wellness, and shelf-stable food brands. Offers lot-level traceability, FEFO rotation, temperature-monitored zones, kitting, and retail compliance on an in-house WMS.
Warehouse system: proprietary (Founders OS)
Warehouses in NJ
Family-owned cold storage company with several New Jersey facilities (Paterson, Carteret, Wayne, Elizabeth, Woodbridge) plus other U.S. locations, offering frozen and chilled warehousing, blast freezing, customs bonded storage, repacking and temperature-controlled ecommerce fulfillment for food brands.
Detroit, MI · also CA, DE, TN, TX
Detroit-headquartered ecommerce and omnichannel 3PL with five fulfillment centers in Michigan, California, Tennessee, Texas and Delaware. Handles food and supplements, holds USDA organic handler certification, and offers kitting, Amazon FBA prep and EDI-based retailer compliance.
Dania Beach, FL · also MO, TN
Ecommerce 3PL based in Dania Beach, Florida with fulfillment centers in Florida, La Vergne (TN) and North Kansas City (MO). Serves supplement, beauty and cosmetics, and food and beverage brands with climate-controlled storage, FIFO/FEFO rotation, lot control, kitting, subscription boxes, B2B and FBA prep.
Stuart, FL
Small ecommerce fulfillment company in Stuart, Florida operating an air-conditioned warehouse north of West Palm Beach. Serves vitamin and supplement, cosmetics and skincare, and tea and coffee brands with kitting, subscription box and Amazon FBA prep services.
Aurora, CO
Denver-area food and beverage 3PL based in Aurora, Colorado, with refrigerated and frozen fulfillment alongside dry food storage. Handles DTC and B2B retail distribution, kitting, and lot-level traceability through a client portal.
Grand Rapids, MI
Grand Rapids, Michigan ecommerce fulfillment provider with an FDA-registered, USDA organic certified warehouse. Serves supplement, cosmetics and non-alcoholic beverage brands with refrigerated bin storage, custom kitting, subscription boxes, Amazon FBA prep and retail fulfillment.
Hanover, PA
Hanover, Pennsylvania warehousing and trucking company with four food-grade facilities (1.2+ million sq ft) holding AIB and BRCGS food-grade certifications, with rail docks and customs bonded space, serving food, foodservice and retail distribution in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Temecula, CA
Southern California 3PL in Temecula with an FDA-registered warehouse that handles food, beverage and other expirable products with lot and expiration tracking. Also does kitting, subscription boxes, B2B orders and Amazon FBA prep.
Warehouses in IL
Chicago fulfillment provider handling DTC and B2B orders for food, beauty and pet brands, with ambient and refrigerated zones in FDA-registered facilities. It tracks lots and expiration dates and also offers kitting and Amazon prep.
Fort Wayne, IN · also AZ, CO, IL, OH, TN, VA
Fort Wayne, Indiana public refrigerated warehouse company (part of the Tippmann Group) with frozen and refrigerated facilities in Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Tennessee, Virginia, Colorado and Arizona. SQF-certified sites serve the food industry with consolidation programs for retail and foodservice.
Chalfont, PA
Chalfont, Pennsylvania 3PL with warehousing across metro Philadelphia, offering ecommerce and B2B fulfillment, kitting, contract packaging and retail/grocery distribution. Its food and beverage program includes SQFI-certified warehousing and Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board compliance for alcoholic beverages.
Fontana, CA · also IL, OH, PA, TX
Omnichannel 3PL based in Fontana, California with fulfillment centers in California, Texas, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania, some FDA-registered and food-grade. Serves health and wellness, cosmetics and food brands with lot-level inventory, expiration tracking and FEFO picking, plus B2B, kitting and FBA prep.
Saddle Brook, NJ
Saddle Brook, New Jersey warehousing and distribution company that is FDA registered, New Jersey alcohol-licensed and C-TPAT verified, specializing in storage and transport of beer, wine, spirits and other food and beverage products.
Lansdale, PA
Family- and veteran-owned 3PL founded in 1958 with warehouses in Lansdale, Hatfield, Montgomeryville and Souderton, Pennsylvania. Offers AIB-certified, FDA-registered, ISO 9001 food-grade storage, ecommerce fulfillment, kitting and freight services.
Elgin, IL
Chicago-area (Elgin, Illinois) ecommerce fulfillment provider serving supplement, beauty, food and beverage and other consumer brands. Offers kitting, subscription fulfillment, Amazon FBA prep and retail/wholesale orders on an in-house built warehouse management system.
Warehouse system: proprietary (in-house web-based WMS)
West Bend, WI
West Bend, Wisconsin warehousing, assembly and fulfillment company with over 500,000 sq ft north of Milwaukee. Offers AIB food-grade, climate-controlled storage for food and beverage, kitting, Amazon FBA prep and retail order fulfillment.
Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee, Wisconsin warehouse and distribution provider serving southeastern Wisconsin. Offers SQF-certified, food-grade, temperature-controlled warehousing for dry foods, beverages and food packaging, plus order fulfillment.
Saint Paul, MN · also MO
Saint Paul, Minnesota warehousing company with campuses in the Twin Cities and Kansas City, Missouri. Food and food ingredients are its main commodity, with SQF-certified, GMP-inspected, organic and temperature-controlled storage plus kitting services.
Jersey City, NJ
Jersey City, New Jersey 3PL near Port Newark with two facilities, offering ecommerce and B2B fulfillment, kitting and retail distribution. FDA registered and CBP bonded, it handles supplements, health and beauty and food, with temperature-controlled zones and hazmat-rated areas.
Warehouse system: Synapse WMS
Chicopee, MA
Chicopee, Massachusetts cold storage 3PL with frozen, cooler and dry warehousing for food manufacturers, plus temperature-controlled trucking across New England. Tracks inventory by lot and by expiration or production data on request.
Gilbert, AZ
Gilbert, Arizona 3PL running a 75,000 sq ft climate-controlled fulfillment center in the Phoenix area. Serves supplement and food and beverage brands among others, with kitting, subscription boxes, retail/B2B and Amazon FBA prep.
Cranbury, NJ · also GA, TX
Port Jersey Logistics network headquartered in Cranbury, New Jersey, with food-grade warehousing in New Jersey, Georgia and Texas. Offers ecommerce and B2B fulfillment, kitting, FBA compliance support and temperature-controlled storage for specialty goods such as wine and artisanal foods.
Atlanta, GA · also FL, CA, TX, NJ
Southeast-based 3PL centered on metro Atlanta, with locations in Georgia, Florida, Texas, California and New Jersey. Focuses on food-grade, nutraceutical, temperature-controlled and hazmat warehousing alongside B2B and DTC fulfillment.
Warehouse system: Extensiv
Portland, OR
Portland, Oregon 3PL and prep center running an FDA-registered warehouse on ShipHero, with climate-controlled (not refrigerated) space for food, supplements and beauty products. Offers ecommerce fulfillment, kitting and subscription boxes, EDI retail orders and Amazon FBA prep.
Warehouse system: ShipHero
Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City 3PL with food-grade and cold storage warehousing for retail, B2B and direct-to-consumer distribution. Supports lot and expiration-date control with FEFO picking.
Reno, NV
Reno, Nevada 3PL with a single large fulfillment center serving DTC, subscription, Amazon and B2B brands, including supplement and beauty brands. Supports lot and batch control, FEFO picking, kitting, FBA prep and EDI orders.
Glassboro, NJ · also PA, UT
Cold chain logistics company offering frozen and refrigerated warehousing, transportation and frozen food ecommerce fulfillment from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Utah. It also does kitting for B2B and B2C orders and supports EDI and API integrations.
Westfield, NJ · also CA, GA, PA
Westfield, New Jersey 3PL founded in 1954 with warehouses in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia and California, offering contract warehousing, temperature-controlled storage, DTC and B2B fulfillment and co-packing. Its co-packing facilities are GMP certified and handle food in refrigerated and ambient environments.
Gilroy, CA · also NY, OH
Fulfillment company headquartered in Gilroy, California with US sites in Northern and Southern California, New York and Ohio plus international locations. Handles supplements, cosmetics and food with GMP-certified facilities, refrigerated and cool climate zones, lot and expiration tracking, kitting and retail/B2B channels.
Warehouses in GA, NV, PA
Omnichannel ecommerce fulfillment provider based around the Port of Savannah, Georgia, with additional fulfillment centers in Philadelphia and Reno. Handles food-grade fulfillment, kitting, subscription boxes, retail and wholesale (B2B) distribution, and Amazon FBA prep.
West Jordan, UT · also OH
Salt Lake Valley 3PL headquartered in West Jordan, Utah, with a second warehouse in Cincinnati, Ohio. Runs FDA and cGMP registered facilities with lot tracking for health, wellness and food products, plus kitting.
Nashville, TN
Nashville, Tennessee-based ecommerce 3PL fulfilling DTC orders for health and supplement, beauty and personal care, and food and beverage brands from a single Nashville warehouse. Runs on ShipHero and offers Amazon prep (labeling, bundling, compliance); it does not currently offer B2B or wholesale fulfillment.
Warehouse system: ShipHero
Austin, TX
Austin, Texas 3PL that stores and ships shelf-stable food and beverage, supplements and beauty products from a room-temperature warehouse; it does not handle refrigerated or frozen goods. It tracks expiration and best-by dates in ShipHero and offers kitting, subscription boxes, FBA prep and wholesale orders.
Warehouse system: ShipHero
Overland Park, KS · also AR, CA, FL, IN, MO, NV, PA, SC, TX, WA
Kansas City-area 3PL (founded in Lenexa, Kansas) with a national warehouse network including ambient, refrigerated and frozen sites. Serves food and beverage and beauty brands across DTC and big-box retail, running its own SWIMS warehouse system with FEFO rotation.
Warehouse system: proprietary (SWIMS)
West Seneca, NY
Buffalo-area (West Seneca, NY) family-run warehousing and logistics company with more than 2 million sq ft of ambient and temperature-controlled space, serving food and beverage, pet food and retail goods. Runs a Cadre Technologies WMS with EDI and API integrations.
Warehouse system: Cadre Technologies
Columbus, OH · also AR, IL, IN, KY, MO, SC, TN
Columbus, Ohio 3PL with shared and food-grade warehouses across Ohio and seven other states. Focused on ambient dry storage and B2B distribution with EDI data exchange.
Warehouses in WA
Food-grade warehousing and distribution company in Renton, Washington serving the Seattle-Tacoma corridor. Stores packaged food, cosmetics and hazmat materials and offers order fulfillment, pick-and-pack and climate-controlled storage.
Miami, FL
Miami-headquartered warehousing and fulfillment company operating twelve temperature-controlled facilities across the East Coast and Midwest. Stores dry, refrigerated and frozen products for food, pharmaceutical and retail businesses, with cold chain management and USDA and FDA inspection support.
Warehouses in CA, CT, GA, KY, NC, NV, TN, TX, UT, WA
Commerce enablement and fulfillment network with a flagship fulfillment center in Atlanta, Georgia and nodes across the US, Canada and UK. Serves supplement, beauty and food and beverage brands with cGMP-compliant fulfillment centers, SKU-level expiration and lot tracking, FEFO allocation, subscription and retail B2B fulfillment.
Eagan, MN
Twin Cities 3PL based in Eagan, Minnesota offering food-grade storage, pick-and-pack and web fulfillment for regional manufacturers. Runs its own Logimation warehouse system with lot control and EDI.
Warehouse system: proprietary (Logimation)
Cheshire, CT
Cheshire, Connecticut fulfillment company operating since 1984 from a 50,000 sq ft AIB-inspected, FDA-registered warehouse, specializing in shelf-stable food, beverage and supplement brands. Offers lot and expiration tracking, kitting, subscription pack-outs, retail EDI via SPS Commerce and Amazon FBA prep.
Bloomingdale, IL
Boutique Chicago-area 3PL running one climate-controlled, food-grade warehouse in Bloomingdale, Illinois. Handles DTC, retail and B2B orders with detailed kitting and FIFO/FEFO logic for expiration-sensitive SKUs on a custom-built WMS.
Warehouse system: proprietary (custom-built WMS)
Torrance, CA
Los Angeles-area 3PL with facilities near the LA ports and LAX, headquartered in Torrance. Stores and ships food, beverage, supplement and cosmetic products for B2B and ecommerce brands, including temperature-controlled storage.
Warehouse system: Extensiv
Peoria, AZ
Arizona 3PL in Peoria (Phoenix metro) focused on supplement, beauty and shelf-stable food brands. GMP certified, with lot and expiration capture at receiving and FIFO rotation, plus subscription and kitting work.
Appleton, WI · also AZ, CA, IA, IL, OH, OR, PA, TX
Appleton, Wisconsin-based warehousing and fulfillment provider with a multi-state network concentrated in Wisconsin and Texas. Offers food-grade warehousing with lot tracking and omnichannel fulfillment across ecommerce, retail and B2B.
Houston, TX
Houston cold storage and fulfillment provider with frozen, refrigerated and ambient zones serving food and beverage suppliers. It ships DTC, B2B and Amazon FBA orders, supports retail distribution, and does kitting and assembly from a USDA Organic certified, FDA registered facility.
Santa Fe Springs, CA
California 3PL with a food-grade warehouse network of 11 distribution centers offering air-conditioned, cooler and frozen storage plus refrigerated trucking. It focuses on retail compliance and ecommerce for food brands, with lot tracking for recalls and FEFO or FIFO picking.
Warehouse system: Synapse
Neenah, WI · also ID
Wisconsin food-focused 3PL with roots in dairy, running food-grade distribution centers in Wisconsin and Idaho. Offers ambient, cooler and freezer warehousing at a range of set temperatures, with FDA-registered, ASI-audited facilities.
Listings are in alphabetical order and no 3PL pays to appear. Each claim is checked against the 3PL’s own website on the date shown. Confirm details with the 3PL before you sign.
Everything we would want in hand before talking to a 3PL: questions to send before the sales call, an onboarding checklist, and a worksheet to compare quotes line by line. Free to print, no sign-up.
3PL readiness kit
Send these before the sales call, and ask for answers in writing.
Work through this in the four to six weeks before your first inbound shipment.
Fill in one column per quote, using your real monthly order and pallet numbers.
| Line item | 3PL A | 3PL B | 3PL C |
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| Receiving (per hour, pallet or carton) | |||
| Storage (per pallet, shelf or bin, per month) | |||
| Pick and pack (first item) | |||
| Pick and pack (each additional item) | |||
| Packaging and inserts | |||
| Kitting or assembly | |||
| Retail or B2B order handling | |||
| Returns processing | |||
| Monthly minimum | |||
| Estimated monthly total |
There is no single label. In practice it means FDA food facility registration, written food safety programs (pest control, sanitation, allergen control), and usually a third-party audit under a scheme such as SQF or BRCGS.
Only if your product needs refrigeration or freezing, or is heat-sensitive in transit, like chocolate in summer. Many shelf-stable foods ship fine from ambient storage, but check how the 3PL handles hot-weather shipping.
FIFO ships the oldest received stock first. FEFO ships the stock that expires first. For food they are often the same, but not always, so FEFO is the safer default.
Both should. The 3PL records which lots it received and shipped. The brand needs the full chain, from ingredient lots to finished-good lots to customer orders, which a 3PL alone cannot provide.
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