March 19, 2020
A New York federal judge has let C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. off the hook in a union pension fund's suit claiming it was responsible for $58 million in withdrawal liability, finding that the company wasn't the successor to the operator of a warehouse facility upstate.
May 02, 2017
Grocery distributor C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc. must face a claim it owes $58 million to the New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund after the collapse of Penn Traffic Co., which C&S bought in part in 2008, triggered its withdrawal liability, a New York federal judge ruled Monday.
January 26, 2016
The New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund has taken food distribution company C&S Grocers to New York federal court over a $58 million pension liability, saying the company closed down a Syracuse food warehouse, then tried to avoid paying its workers.