In 1983, Greg and Melody Carlston established Alpine Food Distributing, Inc. to purchase and redistribute food products in the Portland Metro area. At that time, there was only one employee.

Our warehouse was approximately 2,000 square feet, 1,500 of which was freezer and we had no coolers. Our major product line was french fries. We eventually expanded to about 8,000 square feet, with 3,000 square feet of freezers, and added three additional employees.

In 1987, we moved to our second location that was nearly double in size at 15,000 square feet, 5,000 of which was freezer. We had a very small cooler as well. Two years later our building burned to the ground including its contents. The offices were spared, but we had to completely rebuild at the same location while operating from several locations for nearly a year.

In 1990, we opened a Seattle sales office.

In 1995, we moved to a new office on Portland's east side. At this location we have approximately 95,000 square feet of warehousing, 7,000 square feet of office, 40,000 square feet of freezer, and 7,000 square feet of coolers.

In December 1999, Alpine Food Distributing started DBA Company Alpine Carriers for outside freight hauling.

In January 2002, we added 26,000 additional square feet (16,000 freezer storage and 10,000 dry storage).

In April 2011, we moved into a 280,000 square foot, newly renovated, state of the art facility. We are now located at 2400 SE Mailwell Drive in Milwaukie, Oregon.  Our new space includes 2.8 million cubic square feet of refrigerated space, 3.5 million cubic square feet of dry space, 26 dock doors, and two rail lines leading into the building.

In 1983, our sales area was in Oregon only. We are now in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska, Northern California, Utah, and Hawaii. We have also grown from a staff of one to around 75 employees!