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Chobani Expanding Twin Falls Plant With ‘Innovation & Community Center’

Chobani LLC is expanding its yogurt plant in Twin Falls, Idaho, by breaking ground on a 70,000-s.f. facility that will serve employees and guests and house the company’s global research and development team. “I’m grateful for the specialness we share with the people of the Magic Valley,” said Hamdi Ulukaya, Chobani founder and CEO. “Twin […]

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Earth Fare To Anchor Lakewood, Florida, Mixed-Used Development

Earth Fare, a specialty organic and natural foods grocery chain, will open a new store in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, this winter. The 23,500-s.f. store will be part of The Green at Lakewood Ranch, a 525,000-s.f. mixed-use project located within the Collaboration Opportunities for Research and Exploration (CORE) project in Lakewood Ranch. Developed by Tavistock Development […]

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FoodMaven Online Marketplace Aims To Reduce Food Waste

About 40 percent of food produced by U.S. agriculture gets lost in a complex distribution system and is never used, contributing to the 133 billion pounds of food that’s hauled to U.S. landfills each year. “This is not only a social and environmental nightmare; it represents an estimated $200 billion per year in lost revenue,” […]

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Smart & Final Sponsoring Clippers Foundation’s Thanksgiving Event

The L.A. Clippers will host the 29th Annual “Teamwork at the Table” Thanksgiving event on Tuesday, Nov. 14 at the St. Joseph Center, a nonprofit social service agency in Venice, California, that helps more than 6,500 individuals annually. Smart & Final, the official grocery and warehouse store of the Clippers and corporate sponsor of the […]

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Weis Markets Expands Educational Programs With ‘Weis Explorers’

Weis Markets is launching a new educational field trip program named “Weis Explorers” as it expands its overall education offerings to all of its 204 stores. Weis Explorers is a free, 90-minute classroom program that invites children in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade to catch a behind-the-scenes glimpse of their local Weis Markets. After exploring the […]

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General Mills Board Chairman Retires, Successor Elected

Ken Powell will be retiring as General Mills’ chairman of the board, effective at the end of the year. The company’s board of directors has elected CEO Jeffrey Harmening to serve as chairman upon Powell’s retirement effective Jan. 1, 2018. Harmening will continue to serve as the company’s CEO. “Today’s announcement concludes a long and […]

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Big Y, Instacart Expand Same-Day Grocery Delivery

Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery service, and Big Y World Class Markets, one of the largest independently owned supermarket chains in New England, have expanded their same-day grocery delivery service to select stores in the Boston and Worcester areas. The service allows Big Y customers to complete their grocery shopping online and have their orders […]

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Wegmans Ranks First On 2017 ‘Best Workplaces In Retail’ List

For the second consecutive year, Wegmans Food Markets has taken first place in the “Best Workplaces In Retail” list created by research and consulting firm Great Place to Work and Fortune Magazine. To create the list, Great Place to Work and Fortune considered survey responses from 38,000 employees in the retail sector, taking into account more than 50 […]