About Us

Fresh Connect Central is a wholesale food distributor operated by Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana. With a focus on service, we provide customers with the food products and custom solutions they need at the lowest possible prices.

Endless Possibilities

Let us be the one-stop shop for all your needs. Mix and match all products to create the perfect order that suits your organization.

Whether it is shopping from our extensive inventory of 200+ products or inquiring about a custom pre-packed meal kit, we listen to our partners and promptly answer the call to develop solutions and offerings that allow you to obtain the food and services you need.

Fresh Connect Central’s goals are to:

  • Increase the quality, quantity, and variety of fresh nutritious products available to food insecure neighbors.

  • Reduce costs associated with sourcing and acquiring food.

  • Improve efficiency and planning among food bank nationwide.

We do this by:

  • Building relationships with growers, brokers, wholesalers, state associations and other Feeding America co-operatives.

  • Understanding and aggregating total demand to negotiate better pricing.

  • Centrally planning, negotiating, and purchasing pre-market produce.

  • Capitalizing on zero-cost donations.

  • Converting truckload quantities of single varieties into mixed loads that are easier for food banks to handle and distribute.