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From Humble Beginnings, Rosauers Serves Inland Pacific Northwest

Spokane, Washington-based Rosauers Supermarkets is celebrating its 90th anniversary in 2024, with plans to mark the milestone in July. Following the annual Rosauers Open, a golf tournament to raise funds for local nonprofit Vanessa Behan, the company will spend a couple of weeks celebrating the anniversary, according to CEO Cliff Rigsbee. “We’re going to have […]

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Closing Technology Gap Between Independents, Competition

ARG’s technology has continued to evolve along with its retailers over the last 20 years based upon the changing market and competitive landscape.  As company officials have noted, this includes leveraging the advantages of data utilization and machine learning on its repository of retailer data to deliver solutions for individual stores that they are not […]

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ARG’s Focus On Creating Personal Relationships Backed By Integrity

When Alliance Retail Group (ARG) was founded in 2004, it was with the mission to create a business model that stood out, based on personal relationships. From the start, it was important to the founders that strong business metrics were ingrained in the company’s culture. To some, it might seem old fashioned, but they were […]

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ARG Has Evolved To Offer Suite Of Services

Twenty years ago, Joe Wolf and Barry Maddox set out to create a company different from all others that serve independent retailers. Having been in the industry for decades, Wolf and Maddox intuitively knew they could get independent retailers more promotional trade dollars by working directly with consumer-packaged goods companies than what the retailers could […]

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Alliance Companies Mark Two Decades Of Service

What differentiates the Hendersonville, Tennessee-based Alliance Companies, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, is the ability to simplify the complex and provide wholistic solutions, all the while being transparent and driving a tremendous value proposition for its retailers as well as a measurable return on investment for its vendor partners.  Founded in 2004, […]

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Rouses Markets’ Milestone Rooted In Louisiana Produce

The Shelby Report of the Southeast recently caught up with Rouses Markets CEO Donny Rouse to discuss the 100th anniversary of City Produce and all things Rouses as the Louisiana-based grocer gears up for a big 2024. City Produce, whose centennial runs through May 2024, is the first company that the Rouses family started after arriving […]