Nicholasville, Kentucky-based Badger Technologies, a product division of Jabil, is deploying multipurpose robots at Woodman’s Markets throughout Wisconsin and Illinois, with the goal to expand to all 18 Woodman’s locations by the end of 2020. These robots will monitor product availability, verify prices and deliver precise location data for more than 100,000 items at each location. […]
Category: Grocery Industry
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RangeMe Streamlines Submissions For Walmart Open Call 2020
For the second year in a row, RangeMe will be streamlining submissions for Walmart’s seventh annual Open Call for U.S. manufactured products. “We are thrilled to be working with Walmart on Open Call 2020,” said Nicky Jackson, CEO and founder of San Francisco-based RangeMe. “It’s an outstanding opportunity to help emerging U.S. brands take the […]
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Diageo Creates First 100% Plastic Free Paper-Based Spirits Bottle
Diageo, makers of Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Guinness, says it has created the world’s first ever 100 percent plastic-free, paper-based spirits bottle, made entirely from sustainably sourced wood. The bottle will debut with Johnnie Walker, the world’s No. 1 Scotch Whisky, in early 2021. It comes as Diageo announces that it has launched a new […]
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Southern Champion Tray Purchases Honeymoon Paper Products
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]