Immigrant-led company ‘ready to go forward faster’ Interviews with members of the company’s leadership team were conducted by Shelby Publishing EVP Bob Reeves and compiled by Shelby’s Mary Margaret Stewart. With 47 stores and plans for many more, Superior Grocers is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2021. And what’s kept the company successful is its core values – integrity, […]
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Superior Grocers’ Management Amazed By Leader’s Work Attitude, Energy
Admire humble approach, persistence and emphasis on teamwork throughout business Mimi Song, a Korean immigrant, founded Hispanic specialty grocery store Superior Grocers with her sister, Marie, in the early 1980s. Strong-willed and determined to achieve the American Dream, Song found great success. This year, the company is celebrating 40 years in the business – with no plans to slow […]
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Mimi Song Has Fashioned Successful Career In Grocery Industry
Superior’s CEO immigrated from South Korea with early designs on a different path Mimi Song, founder and CEO of Superior Grocers, has been selected for the Food Industry Hall of Fame. In recent interviews with Bob Reeves, EVP of Shelby Publishing, which were compiled by Shelby’s Mary Margaret Stewart, Song recalled her rise to CEO of a successful grocery chain. Mimi […]
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New Awards Program To Honor Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
Shelby seeks nominations for leading DEI companies Nominations are now open for Shelby Publishing’s new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion awards program, which will launch in 2021 to recognize the most iconic companies working to advance and uphold diversity, equity and inclusion in the U.S. grocery industry. Shelby will recognize and celebrate companies across all sectors […]
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Market Profile: Tweedie Family Transitioned From Trucking Into Groceries
Runs IGA stores in Mars Hill, Fort Fairfield and Presque Isle by Mary Margaret Stewart, staff writer Josh Tweedie worked through high school and college at one of the grocery stores he currently owns and operates in Maine. He then spent most of his early professional career with his father’s trucking business. “I worked in the […]
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Market Profile: COVID-19 Struck And So Did Fresh 3Bros Stroopwafels
Unsurprisingly, the biggest challenge for Fayetteville, Georgia-based 3Bros Stroopwafels was generating sales during a time of uncertainty – the COVID-19 outbreak. “In March, we had just finished building our commercial bakery in Fayetteville,” said Leslie Vliegen, who owns 3Bros with husband Guido. “We entered the market at a particularly difficult time. Fortunately, our stroopwafels are […]
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Market Profile: Great American Cobbler Co. Helps Farmers Sell Crops
by Mary Margaret Stewart / staff writer The Great American Cobbler Co. – a majority woman-owned, family-owned, American-owned cobbler and pot pie business – is new to Homerville, Georgia. But it’s not new to the state – actually, far from it. Member/manager of GACC Russ Goodman is a seventh-generation South Georgia blueberry farmer. One of […]
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Market Profile: KJ’s Markets Grows With Help Of State Group, Sister Store
by Mary Margaret Stewart / staff writer KJ’s Markets began in 2006. One location at a time, the grocer has built 18 stores in Georgia and South Carolina. Operating in two states, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been easier with the help of the Georgia Food Industry Association and the Carolinas Food Industry Council. […]