Private-label food brand Cadia plants flag in the heart of organic industry mecca

BOULDER — When Naperville, Illinois-based foods company KeHE Distributors LLC bought private-label organic products brand Cadia about a decade ago, the company’s leaders looked westward for a place to nurture and grow their new asset. 

“About eight or nine years ago, KeHE said that we want to be more closely connected to the natural foods community and the epicenter of the natural foods industry,” KeHe executive director of brands Ben Friedland told BizWest.

That epicenter, of course, is Boulder. 

The company launched a satellite office near 38th Street and Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder to serve as the de facto headquarters of the Cadia…