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Golden Sun Marketing Welcomes Two New Team Members

Mound, Minnesota-based Golden Sun Marketing has hired two experienced professionals—Tim Rogers and Jason Fuller. Rogers joined the team as business development manager at the beginning of January. Fuller joined as VP, effective Feb. 1. Rogers joins Golden Sun Marketing from The Fresh Market, a specialty grocer in the southeast. “Tim’s deep understanding of both procurement […]

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Crispy Green Hires Torres As New Regional Sales Manager

Fairfield, New Jersey-based Crispy Green has hired Janet Torres as regional sales manager to strengthen its key accounts and regional sales to meet its aggressive growth plan for 2020 and beyond. Torres brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this role and will be a solid asset to the team, the company says. In addition […]

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Verc Enterprises Presents $500 Grant To Fitchburg High School

Verc Enterprises, a convenience store and Mobil/Gulf/Irving gasoline operator with locations throughout Eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire and owner of Mayflower Provisions in Plymouth, Massachusetts, recently presented Fitchburg High School with a check for $500, a grant made possible through the ExxonMobil Educational Alliance Program. Funded by the ExxonMobil Corp. and Global Partners LP, the […]

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Zapp’s Offers New Orleans Kettle Style Evil Eye Potato Chips

Zapp’s new Evil Eye Potato Chips were “born in the spirit of New Orleans and Voodoo healer Marie Laveau,” the company says, and “peer into your soul with the reverie of a mysterious, intense stare.” In the 1800s, Laveau’s evil eye “cast fear, mystery and hexes into the hearts of the nefarious and noble of […]

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Iowa Grocery Industry Association Offers Build With Bags Grants

Iowa’s grocers are offering help to communities that want to spruce up a park, school playground, recreation trail and more with a Build with Bags Grant from the Iowa Grocery Industry Association (IGIA). The Build with Bags program awards grants of up to $2,000 for purchases of picnic tables, park benches, planters and playground equipment made […]

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Allegiance Retail Services Opens Foodtown Of Roosevelt Island In NYC

Allegiance Retail Services LLC held the grand opening of the Foodtown of Roosevelt Island on Friday, Feb. 7.  The store, which is a former Gristedes, is operated by the New York Food Group (John Catsimatidis, chairman, and Nick D’Agostino III, president).  The supermarket is located at 686 North Main Street and is open every day […]

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SpartanNash Foundation, Store Guests Support Habitat For Humanity

As part of its commitment to building stronger communities, the Grand Rapids, Michigan-based SpartanNash Foundation invites store guests to take part in its companywide fundraising effort to build a strong foundation and a path toward homeownership in partnership with Habitat for Humanity. The SpartanNash Foundation’s fundraising effort to secure shelter—one of the Foundation’s pillars—will run […]

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New Magic Fruity Pebbles Available In Time For National Cereal Day

Lakeville, Minnesota-based Post Consumer Brands is releasing a new, limited-edition Magic Fruity Pebbles cereal in celebration of National Cereal Day on March 7. Inspired by the Flintstone family’s pink dinosaur Dino, this hot pink, crispy rice cereal turns milk blue. The limited-edition Magic Fruity Pebbles are also gluten-free. “The Pebbles brand is always looking for […]