Allen Lund Company Press Release

Navidad en el Barrio 2025 Wrap Up

La Cañada Flintridge Calif., January 5, 2025:

For Immediate Release

Since 2004, the Allen Lund Company has supported the efforts of Navidad en el Barrio, an organization dedicated to helping communities around the Los Angeles area. Started by former NFL player, Danny Villanueva, local Hispanic radio, and students from UCLA, their mission was to provide a robust Christmas dinner to families in Southern California. This year, 10,000 families were fed throughout Southern California.



"Every year, and this marks our 21st, we look forward to working with Navidad en el Barrio to collect, organize, and distribute groceries for families to make a healthy Christmas dinner. We also rely on our network of truck drivers to move the donations,” said Nora Trueblood, Director of Marketing at ALC.

Since 2004, ALC has provided transportation and accumulated all the food products for the Christmas Dinner groceries. Additionally, ALC provided volunteers at two Catholic Charities sites, at The Society of St. Vincent de Paul and the staging warehouse. 34 organizations distributed to families.

"This event brings together the best of Allen Lund Company. We provide customer contacts, logistics, and our people are involved directly with the assembly and distribution of the food to those who need help at the holidays. We are blessed in so many ways to play a part. Thank you to the amazing team that does this every year!" stated Kenny Lund, Executive Vice President.

The Allen Lund Company appreciates our Navidad en el Barrio donors immensely, and we thank them for their generosity in helping a great cause.

2025 Navidad en el Barrio donors:

• Coca-Cola
• Costco
• Grimmway Farms
• P&L Imports
• Mission Produce
• PepsiCo

• The Salvation Army
• Taylor Farms
• The Flores Family
• Wada Farms
• Wonderful Citrus
• Allen Lund Company

If you would like help next year, please contact Nora Trueblood via email at nora.trueblood@allenlund.com.



About Allen Lund Company:

Specializing as a national third-party transportation broker with offices across North America and over 750 employees, the Allen Lund Company works with shippers and carriers nationwide to arrange dry, refrigerated (specializing in produce), and flatbed freight. ALC manages over 640,000 loads a year and was designated by Transport Topics in 2025 as the 14th Top Freight Brokerage Firm. The Allen Lund Company has a logistics and software division, ALC Logistics, ranked 47th in the Transport Topics 2025 list of Top 100 Logistics Companies and an International Division licensed by the FMC as an OTI-NVOCC #019872NF. Please click here if you want to join the Allen Lund Company team.

Established in 1976, the Allen Lund Company was named to the 2024 Food Logistics' Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers list. In 2023, ALC was included in Transport Topics' Top Freight Brokerage Firms and Top 100 Logistics Companies lists. Other awards in 2023 include recognition as a Top Food Chain Provider by Food Shippers of America for the second year in a row and a designation as a Top Food Chain Technology Provider. Armstrong & Associates, Inc. placed ALC on their Top 50 U.S. 3PL List and Top 100 DTM 3PL List. In 2022, ALC was named to the Inc. 5000 list of Fastest Growing Companies, received a Top Software and Technology award from Food Logistics, a Bronze EcoVadis Sustainability rating, and a Bestie Award for Best Philanthropic Initiatives. The Los Angeles Business Journal named ALC one of the best places to work in Los Angeles for 2021. ALC was recognized by Food Logistics magazine as a 2019 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Provider for TransKool Solutions, and Logistics Tech Outlook for our software division ALC Logistics as a 2018 Top 10 Freight Management Solution Providers. ALC has also received the TIA 3PL Samaritan Award and NASTC (National Association of Small Trucking Companies) named Allen Lund Company Best Broker of the Year. More information is available at allenlund.com.