LoCo Food expands to larger location

FORT COLLINS – LoCo Food Distribution, a service connecting local food and drink producers and suppliers with customers who want to buy the products, has procured $350,000, enough to allow the organization to move into a new location.

With a goal of “making eating local easier,” LoCo Foods was founded in 2011 by Ben and Elizabeth Mozer, the same entrepreneurial couple who founded Lyric Cinema Café in downtown Fort Collins.

The company grossed nearly $1 million in 2013, according to a release, housed in a temporary warehouse and with limited funding. 2014 is set to be the organization’s first profitable year, according to the release.

LoCo Foods operated out of the Mozers’ basement with a two-person team, but earlier this month occupied warehouse and office space at 229 N. U.S. Highway 287 and has 10 employees. The $350,000 in funding comes Colorado Lending Source.

“It’s been three years of building relationships, connecting the disjointed web of local producers with food buyers who are desperate for local food,” the release said.

LoCo Foods offer an online ordering catalog that allows wholesale customers to have local food delivered to their doors. Customers include Whole Foods, Sprouts, Vitamin Cottage and Albertsons’s, according to the release, as well as hospitals, restaurants, schools and retail outlets such as Jax Outdoor Gear.

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