Frick’s Quality Meats Inc. has broken ground on a 28,320-s.f. expansion of its existing 120,000-s.f. facility in Washington, Missouri. The expansion represents a $11.5 million investment in the region and will create 40 new jobs. Frick’s Quality Meats is a family-owned company that makes smoked meats and sausages with distribution to grocery retailers in 44 […]
Category: Meat/Seafood/Poultry
The Shelby Report covers meat, seafood and poultry for grocery retailers nationwide, from protein trends and pricing developments to supplier announcements and meat department merchandising strategies. Updated regularly across our five regional editions.
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All Hy-Vee Brand Shelf-Stable Tuna Products Now Responsibly Sourced
Less than one year after Hy-Vee announced it was expanding its Seafood Procurement Policy to include the shelf-stable tuna category, 100 percent of its private-brand shelf-stable tuna products are now sourced from environmentally preferred fisheries. “We continue to push forward in our seafood sustainability goals and add categories to our list of responsibly sourced items,” […]
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Sprouts Farmers Market Readying Stores In Its Home State
Sprouts Farmers Market soon will finish construction on new locations in Tempe and Scottsdale, Arizona. Those stores will be among four opening in the first quarter of 2018 in the grocer’s home state. The 30,000-s.f. Tempe store is located at 931 East Elliott Road and will open on Wednesday, March 21, at 7 a.m. The […]
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Give Fresh Departments A Boost With Chinese New Year Promotions
Frieda’s Specialty Produce offers training and programming to help retailers ring in the Year of the Dog: Draw in shoppers to your store with the unique food experience of a Chinese New Year promotion. Frieda’s Specialty Produce offers special support to customers who book a Chinese New Year promotion by Jan. 10; it includes a […]
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‘Beef. It’s What’s For Dinner.’ Holiday Campaign Targets Young Consumers
Beef. It’s What’s for Dinner. is giving consumers the “tips and recipes they need to make beef the star of those big family meals,” all while rolling out the next phase of the brand’s relaunch. “Beef is the one thing that won’t be debated this holiday season,” said Alisa Harrison, SVP, global marketing and research at the […]
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Midan Marketing’s Top Meat Industry Headlines Of 2017
by Danette Amstein/Principal, Midan Marketing Oh 2017—what a news-filled, exciting year you have been! Here at Midan we work hard to stay on top of news and trends in the meat industry. As this year wraps up, I wanted to reflect with you on some of 2017’s prominent trends that we believe will impact 2018. The […]
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Hy-Vee Partners With First Responders To Give Away 3,700 Holiday Hams
Hy-Vee Inc. is partnering with first responders in seven cities across the Midwest for a community initiative called Hy-Vee Hams for the Holidays. Over the next week, Hy-Vee will hand out more than 3,700 Hormel Cure 81 hams to families in need throughout the company’s eight-state region. “We are fortunate to have great partners to […]
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Ralphs Reopening Remodeled Mission Viejo, Calif., Store Dec. 13
Store to feature Ralphs’ Fresh Fare format Ralphs Grocery Co. is hosting a grand re-opening of its completely remodeled Portola Plaza supermarket at 27730 Santa Margarita Parkway in North Mission Viejo, California, next week. Following more than three months of ceiling-to-floor renovations, the supermarket is set to celebrate the re-opening on Wednesday, Dec. 13. As […]
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Price, Freshness & Brand Loyalty: Top Influencers Driving Retailer Traffic
Whether in store or online, shoppers like to have options when it comes to where they purchase their everyday groceries and supplies. Shopping and hopping from store to store go hand-in-hand for today’s consumers as new research and insights from Acosta—a full-service sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry—shows that 76 percent […]
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Tyson Foods Expanding Chicken Production In Western Tennessee
Tyson Foods Inc. has accepted an invitation from city, county and state leaders to build a new chicken production complex in Humboldt, Tennessee, part of Gibson County in the western part of the state. The $300 million project is expected to create more than 1,500 local jobs once the new complex begins operations in late […]
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California Beef Council’s BEEFabulous App Offers Recipes, Nutritional Info
This scenario might sound familiar to some consumers: You’re in the grocery store and you see a special on chuck roast, but you’re not sure what to do with a chuck roast—Slow-cook? Braise? Or you need meal options that are fast, satisfying and nutritious. “We’ve all been there in one form or another,” says Annette Kassis, […]
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Meat MythCrusher Video Addresses Meat And Cancer Research Myths
The North American Meat Institute and American Meat Science Association have once again teamed up to produce new Meat MythCrusher videos, addressing many of the common consumer misconceptions about meat and poultry. The newest video discusses the commonly reported myth that the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) found 800 studies linking red and processed […]
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Vallarta Supermarkets Opens 50th Store In Pasadena, California
Vallarta Supermarkets, a Hispanic supermarket chain, opened its 50th store this week, located in Pasadena, California. The new supermarket in in the Renaissance Plaza Shopping Center on the southwest corner of North Fair Oaks Avenue and Orange Grove Boulevard. It previously was occupied by a Vons Supermarket. The remodeled 50,000-s.f. facility was built with an […]
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AFPD, Local Businesses And Nonprofits Distribute Turkeys In Michigan
The Associated Food and Petroleum Dealers (AFPD) says it is one of the largest turkey drives in the country, having distributed more than 85,000 of the holiday birds since 1980. AFPD teams with local independent retailers and suppliers to bring free turkeys to families in need during the holiday season as part of AFPD’s Annual […]
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H-E-B Huntsville Preview Included Concert, $100K In Donations
H-E-B’s newest store opened to shoppers Nov. 15 in Huntsville, Texas. The day before, the grocer and H-E-B Chairman and CEO Charles Butt donated $100,000 to local nonprofits and invited the community to a concert at 6:30 p.m. that evening featuring Texas country singer-songwriter Kevin Fowler. The 82,000-s.f. store, located at 1702 11th Street, is […]
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Fareway Stores Opens New Meat Market In Lincoln, Nebraska
Fareway Stores Inc. held a ribbon-cutting ceremony this week for its new meat market location at 3033 S. 84th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska. The new 6,400-s.f. meat market offers a full-service meat counter, serving USDA Choice and Prime beef and all-natural chicken and pork. In addition, the store will offer seafood, a selection of cheeses, […]
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National Beef To Expand Consumer-Ready Meat Plant In Georgia
National Beef Packing Co. LLC is starting a project to expand its capacity to produce consumer-ready products at its Moultrie, Georgia, plant. “We are experiencing an increased demand for fresh consumer-ready protein products. The expansion will allow us to deliver on this growing opportunity,” said Dave Davidson, VP of case-ready operations. The $30 million-plus project […]
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Bashas’ Unveils Newly Remodeled Navajo Nation Grocery Store
Bashas’ Diné Market opened the doors this week to its newly remodeled store in Window Rock, Arizona, with a store blessing, remarks from Navajo Nation VP Jonathan Nez, and a performance from Roxyanne Harvey, a traditional Navajo singer. “From the moment shoppers step through the doors, they are welcomed by the new look and feel […]
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Raley’s Partners With American Homestead To Offer GMO-Free Pork
Raley’s has entered into a new partnership across all its stores with American Homestead Pork, a group of family farms, for a program that will offer several varieties of fresh pork, all non-GMO and antibiotic-free. American Homestead is a group of thirty-five family farms in Iowa. Its animals are never given antibiotics or growth promotants, […]
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Home Market Foods Buys Chicago Corned Beef Company
Home Market Foods, headquartered in Norwood, Massachusetts, has acquired Kelly Corned Beef Co., which is known in the marketplace as as Kelly Eisenberg, in Chicago. More than 50 years ago, Home Market Foods began as a purveyor of fresh meats and is producer of fully cooked meat-based prepared foods for both retail and foodservice customers. […]