Hearn Kirkwood is a privately held Food Service Distributor specializing in produce, meat, poultry, dairy, and seafood. Since our founding in 1946, we have grown from a store front on the downtown Baltimore Produce Market to a 60,000 sq. ft. facility. Hearn Kirkwood purchases 90% of our fresh produce direct from California, Florida, Texas, etc. with the balance supplied by local markets. We are located within one mile of Route 295 and I95 providing us with easy access to Baltimore, Washington and Virginia.

Hearn Kirkwood currently operates a fleet of 33 refrigerated trucks. Our service area includes all of Maryland, Washington D.C., Delaware and Northern Virginia. With limited service to Fredericksburg, Philadelphia, and New Jersey.

Diversity...
While produce represents 70% of our volume, we also carry a full line of fresh, frozen and portion cut meats, poultry and seafood. Our product line is further enhanced by a select number of perishable, frozen and proprietary products, including a complete line of dairy items, including fluid. milk. Hearn Kirkwood was the first company servicing the Baltimore, Washington and Virginia corridor to realize the need for fresh cut produce. We started processing in fresh fruits and vegetables in early 1977 and eventually had to build a 5,000 sq. ft. addition to Hearn Kirkwood in 1980. After expanding from within to double shifts and 9,000 sq. ft. plus, Prime Cuts moved to it's current home, a 15,000 sq. ft. facility in the summer of '04, just outside the Jessup Produce Market. Fresh fruit and vegetables for both retail and foodservice are processed daily, shipped to Hearn Kirkwood's distribution facility each day for shipment the next. The Prime Cut label, the first in the area for pre-cut produce, has become the standard to which all others are compared.

Expansion...
Baltimore Meat Packing, purchased in 1984 is a 7,300 sq. ft. building located just 18 miles from Hearn Kirkwood. It is a U.S.D.A. federally inspected plant where meat is processed daily and delivered to Hearn Kirkwood each night for delivery the next day. Our managers have been in the meat and restaurant business for over 30 years combined.

Food Unlimited is our in-house U.S.D.A. kitchen that was added to the Hearn Kirkwood facility in 1990 to further extend our manufacturing capabilities. It serves as an extension of our customer's kitchen during holidays and peak times as well as its own manufacturing division specializing in custom made Hor D'oeuvres, entrée's, grilled vegetables, and a complete line of up scale salads.

In September 1991, Hearn Kirkwood co-founded a Produce Buying Co-op with 6 other distributors called Pro*Act. We have our own buying office in Monterey, California, doing over one billion dollars in annual sales and over 700 million in average produce sales. This has proven to be a definite advantage in quality and cost for Hearn Kirkwood. Pro*Act is currently 44 distributors strong with 68 distribution centers across the country to service multi-unit operators.

Through the years, Hearn Kirkwood has continued to respond to our customers needs by evolving into the Full Line Perishable Specialist we are today.