Nash Finch Board Announces Quarterly Dividend

    Business Editors

    MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2005--Nash Finch Company (Nasdaq:NAFC), a Minneapolis-based food retailer and distributor, announced today that its board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 13.5 cents per share of common stock. The dividend is payable March 18, 2005 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 4, 2005. It is the Company's 314th consecutive quarterly cash dividend. There are 12,676,395 shares of common stock outstanding.
    Nash Finch Company is a Fortune 500 company and one of the leading food distribution companies in the United States with nearly $4 billion in revenues. Nash Finch's food distribution business serves independent retailers and military commissaries in 27 states, the District of Columbia, Europe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Iceland, the Azores and Honduras. The Company also owns and operates retail stores primarily in the Upper Midwest. Further information is available on the Company's website at www.nashfinch.com.

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CONTACT: Nash Finch Company, Minneapolis LeAnne Stewart, 952-844-1060

KEYWORD: MINNESOTA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: SUPERMARKETS FOODS/BEVERAGES RETAIL DIVIDEND SOURCE: Nash Finch Company

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