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Metcash is an Australian wholesale distribution and marketing company founded in 1927 in Woolloomooloo, NSW. It supplies and supports independent retailers across three sectors - food, liquor and hardware - providing merchandising, operational and marketing services intended to help each store compete as the strongest retailer in its local market. The company has operated for nearly a century and serves thousands of independent retailers nationwide.

The business traces its origins to Joe David, a family enterprise that in 1935 established Australia's first professionally organised voluntary retail group, allowing independent operators to combine their buying power against major chains. That model underpins the banners Metcash operates today: IGA in grocery, Mitre 10 in hardware and Total Tools in tools retail. Collectively they form a national distribution network supplying independent stores across Australia.

Wholesale distribution is the core of the operation, spanning food, liquor and hardware categories and involving the movement of goods to retailers in metropolitan and regional areas. Metcash describes its approach as local service backed by national strength, and states a belief that sustainable, family-owned businesses are central to Australian communities.