Gordon Food Service 401(k) and retirement plans

Gordon Food Service, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI. EIN 38-1249848. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as Ettline Foods Corporation; Gordon Food Services, Inc.

Gordon Food Service, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Gordon Food Service, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan, with 18,591 participants and $2.8 billion in assets in 2024. Vanguard has been its recordkeeper since 2009. No traditional pension plan appears in Gordon Food Service's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 18,591
Plan assets: $2.8 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Vanguard
Plans on file: 3
Industry: Wholesale trade

All 3 plans

Active plans first

Gordon Food Service, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 38-1249848
Participants (2024): 18,591
Net assets (2024): $2.8 billion
Recordkeeper: Vanguard2009–2024
Plan administrator: Gordon Food Service, Inc.
P.O. Box 1787
Grand Rapids, MI 49501
(616) 530-7000As filed for 2024
In effect since: May 1, 1960

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	18,591	$2.8 billion	Vanguard
2023	19,871	$2.5 billion	Vanguard
2022	20,460	$2.0 billion	Vanguard
2021	19,637	$1.8 billion	Vanguard
2020	17,104	$2.1 billion	Vanguard
2019	15,562	$1.8 billion	Vanguard
2018	15,061	$1.7 billion	Vanguard
2017	14,829	$1.6 billion	Vanguard
2016	14,980	$1.5 billion	Vanguard
2015	13,340	$1.3 billion	Vanguard
2014	12,826	$1.1 billion	Vanguard
2013	11,924	$1.1 billion	Vanguard
2012	9,580	$971 million	Vanguard
2011	9,758	$780 million	Vanguard
2010	10,660	$626 million	Vanguard
2009	8,083	$594 million	Vanguard

Ettline Foods Corporation Profit Sharing 401K Plan

401(k)Closed

Closed. The plan filed its final annual report for 2018, which means its assets were paid out or moved and it no longer exists.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 38-1249848
Participants (2017): 144
Net assets (2017): $6.7 million
Recordkeeper: Principal2010–2018
Plan administrator: Gordon Food Services, Inc.
P.O. Box 1787
Grand Rapids, MI 49501
(616) 530-7000As filed for 2018
In effect since: January 1, 1988

Earlier sponsor: Ettline Foods Corporation (2009–2017).

Year by year, 2009 to 2018

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2018	0	$0	Principal
2017	144	$6.7 million	Principal
2016	142	$5.9 million	Principal
2015	140	$5.4 million	Principal
2014	150	$5.6 million	Principal
2013	140	$5.0 million	Principal
2012	136	$4.4 million	Principal
2011	136	$3.8 million	Principal
2010	136	$3.8 million	Principal
2009	141	$3.2 million	not listed

Ettline Foods Corporation Employee Stock Ownership

Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)Closed

Closed. The plan filed its final annual report for 2018, which means its assets were paid out or moved and it no longer exists.

Plan number: 003Employer EIN 38-1249848
Recordkeeper: Principal2018
Plan administrator: Gordon Food Service, Inc.
P.O. Box 1787
Grand Rapids, MI 49501
(616) 530-7000As filed for 2018
In effect since: January 1, 2003

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Vanguard (investor.vanguard.com), which runs the Gordon Food Service, Inc. Profit Sharing Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((616) 530-7000). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan closed, unclaimed balances usually went to an IRA in your name, to the PBGC's missing participants program, or to state unclaimed property. Here is how to check each one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.