In absolute terms, US-1 is a food service management and distribution company supporting food distributors, importers and chain restaurant operators outside of the United States, primarily in the Middle East.

As with many highly specialized companies, summarizing who we are and what we really do is not easy to get across in a single sentence. Even experienced colleagues in related businesses often refer to United Source One as a freight forwarder or consolidator in honest efforts to label what we do. But those miss the mark.

Internationally speaking, selling and shipping specialized food products nearly halfway around the world requires a whole lot more than just loading boxes on a boat or an airplane. What might seem a simple undertaking can get complicated quickly. Imagine having to fit pieces of a puzzle together when most of the pieces don’t quite fit. Or try building a strong chain with different sized links.

Here’s the real bottom line: United Source One is in the business of building bridges between people and places. Our job is to create ease and efficiency in moving goods from one location to a distant destination. But more than that, bridge building is about people and relationships. And that will always be the heart of our business in the truest sense.

Whether we are talking about bridges built on relationships, concrete and steel or linking far away places together logistically, bridges connect people and places. Ultimately, they are designed to improve peoples’ lives. Without bridges, people would know a lot less about one another. Quality of life would suffer, and developing a deeper and more meaningful understanding of one another would be greatly complicated.

Practically speaking, building an effective logistics chain requires a proven game plan, technical expertise in a number of areas and an obsession with execution. As with building physical bridges, small miscalculations can have very unpleasant results. Building bridges is often a risky and complicated business, yet is essential to bring people as well as goods and services together.

While bridge building may be our daily activity, our team members try not to get so obsessed with our day to day challenges that we lose sight of our inner purpose: growing individually and as a group. And why? In our way, we really do believe we can help make the world more livable.

This day in age, we believe there a few higher callings.

So we’ll keep working on building strong, reliable links and bridges as long as there remains the natural human desire to bring people together. And in a very local sense, where better to put that into action than at restaurant tables around the world? So in that same spirit, here’s to international friends, engaging conversation and great food.

Cheers!

Michael Imgarten
President, United Source One