Growing and selling peaches in the 60's presented a variety of challenges. The peaches need to be packed and shipped to market immediately upon ripening. This practice delivered wonderful products to Philadelphia, but at the height of the peach harvest, the market became flooded and greatly  depressed prices. Mr. Sorbello noticed that just a few short weeks after the New Jersey harvest peaked and supplies dwindled, the price of a bushel of peaches rose dramatically.

In 1964, Mr. & Mrs. Sorbello built their first cold storage building, a modest 1,500 square foot facility that could be chilled to 36 F. The building included an open packing shed where fruit was washed, sized, sorted and weighed. With cold storage available, Mr. Sorbello could hold the last 6,000 bushels of his harvest in reserve until other farms had picked and sold their fruit. Delivering to merchants in Philadelphia a few weeks later, he tripled the value of the peaches he had stored because he was the only grower with a supply.

Over the next few years, Mr. Sorbello began packing for other growers and in 1968 he added more cold storage. By the early 1970's, Mr. Sorbello was approached by a number of potential customers and so, in 1973, he built a refrigerated warehouse for frozen food, including seafood and blueberries.

In 1978, Mr. Sorbello responded to a customer's request and built the first USDA inspection facility in the Philadelphia area. This venture was in response to a meat importer being dissatisfied with the services available from New York City's port. This facility attracted the business of many beef importers who formerly relied on New York and shortly thereafter, Philadelphia dominated this buisness.

Mr. Sorbello and a business partner expanded, buying frozen food facilities in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. One Camden warehouse, "Dockside," was the largest portside frozen foods warehouse in the world. Mr. Sorbello eventually sold his interest in these operations and returned to his roots in Mullica Hill, NJ.

Mr. Sorbello's eldest son Fred began running the family farm and assumed the management of the storage business, adding a third warehouse in 1989. Additional expansions in 1993, 1998 and 2002, brought their storage capacity to more than three million cubic feet.

Mr. Sorbello's youngest son Sam, and his wife Colleen, built their own cold storage facility in 1999 and then added two more in 2001 and 2005. South Jersey Cold Storage now includes 2.7 million cubic feet of cold storage. In 2006, Sam acquired Atlantic Coast Freezers, adding 4.1 million cubic feet to their business.

Over the years, a variety of value added services have been added; Sam now offers freezer and cooler services that are remarkably sophistocated and are tailored to meet the needs of his clients; blast freezing, rail and re-packing/re-styling are also available. Combined, Sam and his brother are the largest USDA import meat inspection operation in the U.S.

As important as any service surrounding the warehouses is the transportation business. Fred began Aldan Transportation in 1990, picking up and delivering products into and out of the Sorbello warehouses. In 1994, Aldan expanded their ICC authority to broker vehicles to an operating authority and began purchasing trucks. In 2008, Sam added LTL Service to NJ, DE, MD, and parts of VA, PA and NY. Combined, the Mullica Hill Group transportation services allows ACF to service the entire continental United States.

Today, the family tradition of dedication and hard work continues as Sam's son Jeff and Fred's son, Dan, have begun to work alongside their fathers in managing the day-to-day operations.

The Sorbello family brings a deeply ingrained sense of hard work and dedication to their customers, passed down from Mr. & Mrs. Sorbello to their sons.

Great businesses come from more than good planning and intelligence; they spring from generations of effort.