A-Treat Closure

A-Treat Beverages in Allentown informed customers Friday that it was ceasing operations.

(Bill Adams)

A-Treat Beverages has shut down operations after nearly a century of business in the Lehigh Valley.



The company headquartered at 2001 Union Boulevard in Allentown notified its customers Friday afternoon that it had ceased operations, according to Eric White, a spokesman for Redner's Warehouse Markets. A-Treat, a Lehigh Valley staple, had notified Redner's chief operating officer, and White said he learned of the closing about 3:30 p.m.



The A-Treat products currently on store shelves will be the only ones available to retailers, White said. A-Treat self-distributes meaning each Redner's branch was on its own delivery schedule, so White couldn't say when the chain had received its last shipments.



Individual stores had been seeing sales representatives and receiving products on a regular basis, he said.

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A-Treat told its employees of the pending closure on Wednesday, which was the last day for some and Friday the last day for the remaining staff, according to a report on WFMZ.



A phone call to the company headquarters Friday went unanswered, and the A-Treat website, where customers could order products, has closed on-line sales.

Joseph and Jack Egizio founded the company in 1918, moving to its current location on Union Boulevard in 1932.