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Grocery distributor to add 125 jobs with latest regional expansion

Merchants Distributors Merchants Distributors LLC, or MDI, is expanding again in its hometown of Hickory.

CHARLOTTE — A wholesale grocery distributor is expanding its operations once again in the Charlotte region.

Hickory-based Merchants Distributors, or MDI, will invest $35 million to expand operations in its hometown. MDI, founded in 1931, plans to add 250,000 square feet of space to its Caldwell County operations and will create 125 additional jobs there.

The state economic investment committee approved incentives for the expansion on a call Tuesday morning, which was followed by a formal announcement.

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