Category: Association News

FMI, the Food Industry Association recently presented its “Navigating A Hybrid World” as part of its U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2022 series. The third edition of the series, the June 9 presentation focused on how retailers and consumers are adapting and utilizing both in-store and online shopping techniques in the post-pandemic market. “This year’s trends […]

FMI – The Food Industry Association has released its fourth installment of its U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2022, “Future Outlook,” which focuses on the ways various forces continue to shape how we eat, what we eat and how we obtain food. “Our relationship with food continues to be complicated due to a host of factors, […]

FMI – The Food Industry Association welcomed the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee’s passage of the bipartisan “Pharmacy Benefit Manager Transparency Act of 2022.” The legislation addresses several anticompetitive practices used by many of the drug middlemen known as pharmacy benefit managers while giving the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general greater enforcement authorities to prevent […]

by Jim Dudlicek / NGA Director, Communications and External Affairs Grocery operators are starting to focus more deeply on the well-being of their teams and engage in conversations around employee mental health in our industry. The NGA Foundation hosted a recent webinar that explored how organizations approach their employees’ mental health to ensure their teams […]

The Consumer Brands Association warned that manufacturers continue to face steep production costs as the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers hover near historic levels. The May Producer Price Index showed a 10.8 percent year-over-year rise, still near record highs. On a monthly basis, PPI rose 0.8 percent. For food specifically, wholesale prices rose 12.6 percent, […]

The National Grocers Association concluded a successful Fly-In for Fair Competition on June 9. Focused on leveling the playing field in the grocery industry by calling for enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act, grocers engaged with Congressional offices about the importance of acting now to resolve dominant food retailers’ anti-competitive tactics. “America’s independent grocers played a […]

Mike Beal, chief operating officer of Kansas City, Kansas-based Balls Food Stores, testified June 8 in support of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, on behalf of the National Grocers Association, the trade association representing the independent supermarket industry. Beal affirmed the importance of SNAP to the […]

FMI – The Food Industry Association hosted a reunion June 4-5 of more than 20 former food retail consumer affairs professionals in Washington, D.C. The group notably included six recipients of the Esther Peterson Award for Consumer Service. The reunion of these consumer affairs professionals illustrates the industry’s commitment to feeding families in the communities it serves.   […]

What happened in 2010? We should all know the significance of this year. It is the year that Americans started spending more on food away from home than at home, according to the USDA.  In recorded American history, and probably human history, society started letting others cook for us more often than we cooked for […]

A 29-year employee and role model for diversity at Brookshire Grocery Co. has been selected to receive this year’s PepsiCo Diversity in Leadership Endowment scholarship from the National Grocers Association Foundation. Latasha Woodard, VP and district manager at the Texas-based supermarket chain, was selected to attend the foundation’s annual Executive Leadership Development Program June 5-9 […]

Greg Ferrara, National Grocers Association’s president and CEO, presented NGA’s Spirit of America Award to Ray Sprinkle, president and CEO of URM Foods, and Mike McShane, URM’s VP of procurement and profit centers. The award was presented at the Washington Food Industry Association’s Connect! meeting in Tacoma, Washington. NGA’s Spirit of America Award has been […]

The NGA Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the National Grocers Association, has announced two staff promotions. Chelsea Matzen will be assuming the role of director of the NGA Foundation, overseeing all department programs, including scholarships, industry promotion, leadership development, diversity and inclusion and student programs. After four years with the National Farmers Union, Matzen joined […]

FMI – The Food Industry Association has announced a new general merchandise, health and beauty care initiative that extends its total store collaboration concept in grocery. This new portfolio will be led by consumer goods and retail industry veteran Tom Duffy and embraces a community of professionals from grocery retailers to suppliers for high-impact industry dialog […]