Young’s Columbia is joint venture between Columbia Distributing and Young’s Market out of CA. They have a shared services agreement in that Young’s Columbia pays Columbia Distributing for warehouse, delivery, and administrative services on a per case basis. The agreement covers the entire states of WA and OR.  

Young's Market Company was founded in 1888 and is one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the United States.  Initially the Company was engaged in the retail grocery trade and was one of the nation's first chain markets, owning and operating at its peak in 1937 sixty neighborhood stores in Southern California. 

In 1940 management decided to discontinue its retail operations and to engage exclusively in the wholesale distribution of wine, spirits, meat, seafood and gourmet items.  In 1963 Vernon O. Underwood Sr. was named President of the Company and in 1964 Young's Market Company established its first subsidiary wine and spirits distributorship, The William George Company.  In 1967 Young's Market Company acquired two established wholesale distributors in Hawaii and commenced doing business there as "Better Brands".

In 1975 Vernon O. Underwood, Sr. was named Chairman of Young's Market Company and his son, Vernon O. Underwood Jr., was elected President of the Company.  In the mid 1980's Young's acquired two wine and spirits wholesale distributors in Northern California, Rathjen Wines and Spirits and Berberian Brothers, Inc., to become the first statewide wholesale distributor of beverage alcohol in the state of California.

1990 was a sad but important year in the history of Young's Market Company.  The year started with the Underwood family acquiring all of the shares of stock in the Company that they did not then already own.  Shortly thereafter the Company discontinued its distribution of meat, seafood and gourmet items so that it could focus entirely on the growing business of beverage alcohol distribution.  Finally the year concluded with the death of Vernon O. Underwood, Sr., one of the industry's most respected leaders and the Company's mentor and guiding light for almost four decades.

In 1997 Young's Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Young's Market Company, purchased Wilson Daniels, Ltd., an importer and marketer of fine wines and spirits headquartered in St. Helena, California.  Shortly thereafter in 1999 Holdings acquired a majority interest in K&L Beverage Company, a distributor of wine and spirits in Alaska and a broker of wine and spirits in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Montana. 

In 2002 Holdings acquired fifty percent interests in Young's-Columbia of Oregon and Young's-Columbia of Washington, wholesale distributors of wine in those respective states. 

In 2005, Holdings formed Young's Market Company of Arizona, LLC, a wine and spirits distributor in Arizona and commenced operations in that state.

Finally, in 2007 Christopher V. Underwood was named Chief Operating Officer of Young's Market Company, thus ensuring the continuation of the Underwood family presence at the helm of the Company for many years into the future.

In sum, in the 68 years since Young's Market Company decided to engage exclusively in the sale and distribution of wine in spirits it has grown from a relatively small local distributor servicing Southern California to the fourth largest wine and spirits distributor in the United States with operations in California, Hawaii, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming.