Wisconsin grocery company Festival Foods will be featured in an upcoming episode of the “World’s Greatest!…” television series as the “World’s Greatest Grocery Store.”
The show will feature comments from Festival Foods associates along with an interview with Mark Skogen, president and CEO.
The episode starts with the history of Festival Foods and its roots starting in Onalaska, Wisconsin, in 1946, and progresses through the company’s growth into the supermarket operator it is today.
The Festival Foods’ episode will be broadcast at 6 a.m. (EST) Monday, Aug. 1, and again a week later on Aug. 8 on Direct TV channel 305 and Dish Network on channel 250. Additional scheduling details can be found online here. The episode also will eventually be available in its entirety on the show’s “episodes” page.
Festival Foods is a family- and employee-owned company founded as a Skogen’s IGA that began operating as Festival Foods in 1990. It employs 6,300 full- and part-time associates and operates 25 full-service supermarkets.