C.B. Ragland Company

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C.B. Ragland, a former wholesale grocery business, is located in Nashville, Tenn. In 2002, C.B. Ragland sold the grocery business to concentrate on real estate, through its wholly owned subsidiary Colonial Realty and trucking through CBR Transportation. CBR Transportation provides customized service to the Midwest and Southeast areas of the United States. The company was founded in 1919 by Charles Burton Ragland. A year after its beginning, the number of employees that comprised the company was seven. By 2001, the company payroll totaled more than 200 people. C.B. Ragland was the first local wholesale grocery to offer frozen food to retail stores. In 1959, it was the first wholesale grocery company in Tennessee to install a computer. Also, the company was the first wholesale grocery in the country to have 100 percent computerized ordering from its customers.