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Dairy And Produce: Grow Sales By Providing Solutions

by Cindy Sorensen/ Founder and CEO, The Grocery Group Today’s produce departments provide a great example of how grocers have reinvented departments within their stores to be relevant to consumers’ ever-growing and changing desires and demands. Several years ago, when local farmers markets began to pop up in library, shopping center and school parking lots around their […]

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Quality Chekd Dairies Names Excellence Awards Finalists

Quality Chekd Dairies Inc., a member-owned organization of independent dairy processors, has named three outstanding dairy processors as finalists for the Irving B. Weber Award, which the organization developed and modeled after the Association for Manufacturing Excellence Award. This award represents the highest honor for overall quality throughout the Quality Chekd organization. Finalists are judged […]

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Borden Delivers 45,000 Milk Servings For Florence Victims, First Responders

Borden, a dairy processor and distributor, teamed up with the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina and World Central Kitchen to distribute 45,000 individual servings of whole, 2 percent and chocolate milk to those affected by Hurricane Florence. The milk was processed and packaged in Borden’s London, Kentucky, plant last Friday as a […]

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Sorensen: Connecting With Hispanic Shoppers

by Cindy Sorensen/Founder and CEO of The Grocery Group The Hispanic population represents the fastest-growing ethnic group in the U.S. In fact, by 2020, Hispanics will be the largest ethnic group. They currently represent 17 percent of the population and will grow to be 29 percent by 2050. This growth will occur in all regions […]

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FRANE To Honor Big Y Foods As
 Retail Member Of The Year

The board of directors of the Frozen & Refrigerated Association of the North East (FRANE) has unanimously chosen Big Y Foods as its 2018 Member of the Year. Big Y will be honored at the group’s upcoming Convention & Business Conference to be held at Mystic Hilton in Mystic, Connecticut, on Friday, Oct. 5-Sunday, Oct. […]

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Jarlsberg Cheese Bringing A Pop-Up Store To NYC

Jarlsberg Cheese is debuting its first pop-up retail store at a Swedish candy store, Sockerbit, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City in late September and October. “We are thrilled to be debuting our first ever Jarlsberg pop-up store in NYC,” said Valerie Liu, marketing manager for Jarlsberg.  “Some of life’s best moments revolve […]

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West Coast Equity Firm Buys Dari Farms Ice Cream

Diversis Capital LLC, a Los Angeles, California-based private equity firm, has acquired New England distributor Dari Farms Ice Cream Co. Inc. Headquartered in Tolland, Connecticut, Dari Farms is a full-service, direct store delivery (DSD) distributor serving more than 5,000 points of distribution. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1970, Dari Farms formed […]

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Ben & Jerry’s New CEO Has Big Social Impact Goals

New Ben & Jerry’s CEO Matthew McCarthy wasted no time before challenging the company to “double its social impact,” when he began his position on July 1. McCarthy’s mission at Ben & Jerry’s is to continue to lead the company in performance in the marketplace and meet its triple bottom line focus of producing the world’s best […]