UNFI Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be Webcast

December 9, 2010: UNFI announced today that its Annual Meeting of Stockholders will be held on Thursday, December 16, 2010 at 5:30 pm EST on the internet through a virtual web conference. The matters to be voted on at the meeting are set forth in UNFI's Proxy Statement which was posted on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website on November 5, 2010.

The Company is offering a live webcast of the Virtual Annual Meeting at www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/unfi.

Additionally, UNFI shareholders of record as of October 18, 2010 will be able to vote and ask questions online during the virtual meeting. Any UNFI stockholder who received a proxy voting card will be able to enter the virtual conference by using the dedicated 12-digit access proxy control number distributed with their Notice of Proxy. Once in the virtual shareholder meeting, UNFI stockholders can hear the live webcast as well as interactively cast or change a vote during the meeting.

Please allow at least 10 minutes, prior to the event, to visit the site and download the necessary software to listen to the Internet broadcast.