Don Greene History

Late 60's and 70's ...

In 1965, when Miami was a small town, Don Greene established Don Greene Provisions, Inc. as a provisions delivery operation serving local restaurants. Mr. Greene owned a small truck, bought provisions from local distributors and packers, and delivered these provisions to the restaurants. When the business began to grow, the company rented refrigerated storage space and began to maintain an inventory of the faster selling items.

In 1966, the company purchased a facility. Utilizing this facility to increase inventory and expand its marketing base, the company accelerated its growth trend. Fresh poultry was now the main product of the company. As the demand for poultry increased and the company added new products, once again it outgrew its facility.

During the 1970's, as fresh and frozen poultry were the dominant products in the company's sales, the name was changed to Don Greene Poultry, Inc. Expansion continued in the frozen food product category as the company operated from a cold storage facility.

 

The 80's ...

In 1983, the company built a new facility to its specifications in Opa-Locka, Florida. The 45000-sq. ft. facility enabled the company to continue its growth in both fresh and frozen poultry and refrigerated and frozen foods. In 1985, the company began servicing the cruise line industry and continued the expansion of frozen food sales.

In 1987, the company elected to restrict its restaurant sales to poultry products in order to become a "redistributor" of frozen and refrigerated products selling primarily to distributors in South Florida and the Caribbean Basin. In 1988, a 25000-sq. ft. addition to its facility enabled the expansion of redistribution into Central and North Florida. In 1989, the company leased dry warehouse space and began to market dry goods for redistribution.

Stephen M. Greene, Don's son, is now the sole owner of Don Greene Poultry, Inc. The company's current customer base consists of retail markets, fast food poultry restaurants, domestic distributors, export distributors and overseas distributors.

 

Improving for a new millennium...

In 1996, Don Greene Poultry, Inc. introduced its new logo symbolic of the company representing much more than just poultry products. In 2005, DGP Foods built a 90,000 square foot facility adjacent to its existing warehouse. This state of the art facility was built strictly to service the School Food Service Systems in the Tri-County areas. This warehouse has refrigerated, frozen and dry storage space, it also has multiple receiving and shipping doors with completely refrigerated loading docks. DGP Foods has added distribution of fresh and frozen, beef, pork, lamb, veal, kosher products, natural and organic products and many other fine lines of product. We are pleased to announce that DGP Foods is now under the leadership of Jeff Greene, grandson to Don Greene. The company now services 2,400 customers over 10,000 sku’s throughout the state of Florida, Atlanta, The Caribbean, The Bahamas, Central and South America.

We look forward to servicing your food product needs.