Southern Champion Tray, a manufacturer of paperboard packaging for the bakery and foodservice industry, has acquired substantially all the assets of Honeymoon Paper Products Inc. based in Fairfield, Ohio. Honeymoon, founded in 1960, is a supermarket and retail bakery, deli, foodservice and wholesale packaging provider. SCT is integrating Honeymoon’s catalog items into the company’s offerings […]
Category: Grocery Industry
Acosta Expands Executive Leadership Team To Accelerate Growth
Jacksonville, Florida-based Acosta, a full-service sales and marketing agency in the CPG industry, has appointed Brian Wynne as its new CEO. Wynne is working closely with Darian Pickett, who will remain with the company and assume the role of CEO of Acosta’s North American Sales Agency. This change will allow the company to accelerate its […]
Vengo Launches Digital Media Platform For In-Store Advertising
Nearly 90 percent of Americans say they shop for groceries differently because of Covid-19, with 44 percent spending more money on each grocery store visit. That’s why Vengo, a provider of digital kiosk technology, has launched its Digital-out-of-Home (DOOH) media platform for retail marketers and advertisers, partnering with National Entertainment Network (NEN) as its first platform partner. As part […]
Simple Truth Recycling Program Advances Kroger’s Zero-Waste Vision
Cincinnati-based The Kroger Co. has launched its Simple Truth Recycling Program, offering customers a free way to recycle the flexible packaging of more than 300 products from Simple Truth, America’s largest natural and organic brand. Developed in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle, Kroger’s new platform enables customers to recycle a wide range of flexible packaging […]
Logistics Platform Helps Taylor Farms Get Products ‘From Field to Fork’
RedwoodConnect 2.0, Redwood Logistics’ flagship supply chain integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS), demonstrates its business value with Taylor Farms, the world’s top producer of fresh-cut produce. The produce giant, which provides fruits and vegetables to many of the largest supermarket chains and restaurants in the U.S., including Wal-Mart, McDonald’s, Subway, Pizza Hut, Safeway and Kroger, has successfully […]
Profile: Meet Katie Hotze, Founder And CEO Of Grocery Shopii
The Shelby Report and The Grocery Group together present this series, People to Watch, to focus on current and future leadership in the grocery industry. In this installment, The Grocery Group Founder and CEO Cindy Sorenson interviews Katie Hotze, founder and CEO of Grocery Shopii. Tell me a little bit about you and what do […]
Food Lion Sustainability Policies Bolster Product Labeling, Animal Welfare
Salisbury, North Carolina-based Food Lion has implemented new sustainability policies for genetically modified food (GMOs) and farm animal welfare. This action is the grocer’s latest move to make its products and packaging more sustainable. Working in partnership with Retail Business Services, which develops private brand products for each of the Ahold Delhaize USA local brands, […]
Market Profile: AGRMA Says Success May Hinge On Online Experience
by John McCurry, contributing writer Charlie Spakes, executive director of the Arkansas Grocery and Retail Merchants Association, AGRMA, said the future success of independent grocers may depend largely on how quickly they can adapt to online ordering. “They probably would have liked more time to get ready and get adapted before this whole [COVID-19] crisis […]
