Kehe Distributors 401(k) and retirement plans

Kehe Distributors, Inc., Naperville, IL. EIN 27-1729384. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as Kehe Food Distributors, Inc.; Kehe Distributors Inc.

Kehe Distributors, Inc. has 2 active retirement plans on file. The largest is the Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, with 9,775 participants and $325 million in assets in 2024. Principal has been its recordkeeper since 2023. No traditional pension plan appears in Kehe Distributors's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 2
Participants: 18,357
Plan assets: $2.5 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Principal
Plans on file: 3
Industry: Wholesale trade

All 3 plans

Active plans first

Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

401(k)Active

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

Plan number: 004Employer EIN 27-1729384
Participants (2024): 9,775
Net assets (2024): $325 million
Recordkeeper: PrincipalEarlier: Empower (2011–2022), Prudential (2010), Empower (2009)
Plan administrator: Kehe Distributors, Inc.
1245 E. Diehl Road, Suite 200
Naperville, IL 60563
(630) 343-0000As filed for 2024
In effect since: July 1, 1985

Plans merged into this one: Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Plan (2014); Tree of Life, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan (2010); Dpi Specialty Foods 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (2023).

Earlier sponsor: Kehe Food Distributors, Inc. (2009).

Earlier plan names: Kehe Food Distributors, Inc. Employee 401(k) Plan; Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan - Nonunion Employees; Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings.

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	9,775	$325 million	Principal
2023	7,367	$246 million	Principal
2022	7,426	$227 million	Empower
2021	8,108	$223 million	Empower
2020	7,569	$231 million	Empower
2019	6,956	$180 million	Empower
2018	6,169	$184 million	Empower
2017	6,275	$171 million	Empower
2016	6,178	$158 million	Empower
2014	3,976	$130 million	Empower
2013	3,831	$125 million	Empower
2012	3,930	$112 million	Empower
2011	4,264	$107 million	Empower
2010	4,699	$116 million	Prudential
2009	2,039	$31.8 million	Empower

Kehe Distributors, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan

Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)Active

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

Plan number: 006Employer EIN 27-1729384
Participants (2024): 8,582
Net assets (2024): $2.2 billion
Plan administrator: Kehe Distributors, Inc.
1245 E. Diehl RD
Naperville, IL 60563
(630) 343-0000As filed for 2024
In effect since: May 1, 2000

Earlier sponsor: Kehe Food Distributors, Inc. (2009).

Earlier plan names: Kehe Food Distributors, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	8,582	$2.2 billion	not listed
2023	8,510	$1.6 billion	not listed
2022	7,319	$1.2 billion	not listed
2021	6,817	$960 million	not listed
2020	6,463	$821 million	not listed
2019	5,895	$575 million	not listed
2018	5,639	$342 million	not listed
2017	5,394	$229 million	not listed
2016	5,220	$234 million	not listed
2015	4,740	$271 million	not listed
2014	4,486	$319 million	not listed
2013	4,108	$300 million	not listed
2012	3,827	$164 million	not listed
2011	3,887	$64.4 million	not listed
2010	4,269	$57.3 million	not listed
2009	4,255	$47.6 million	not listed

Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Plan

401(k)MergedUnion (multiemployer)

Merged. In 2014 its assets moved to the Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, sponsored by Kehe Distributors, Inc. (EIN 27-1729384, plan 004). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 005Employer EIN 27-1729384
Participants (2013): 48
Net assets (2013): $1.8 million
Plan administrator: Kehe Distributors Inc.
1245 Diehl Road, Suite 200
Naperville, IL 60563
(630) 343-0357As filed for 2014
In effect since: July 1, 1985

Earlier plan names: Kehe Food Distributors, Inc. Employee Savings Plan; Kehe Food Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan - Union Employees; Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan - Union Employees.

Year by year, 2009 to 2014

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2014	0	$0	not listed
2013	48	$1.8 million	not listed
2012	51	$1.7 million	not listed
2011	41	$1.6 million	not listed
2010	54	$1.8 million	not listed
2009	23	$743,131	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Principal (principal.com), which runs the Kehe Distributors, Inc. 401(k) Retirement Savings 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 ((630) 343-0000). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that 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.