Fareway Stores hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday for its new location at 512 River Avenue North in Belmond, Iowa. The new 13,100-s.f. store replaces Fareway’s original 8,700-s.f. Belmond store, according to the grocery chain. “We are committed to remaining in Belmond and appreciate the local support we’ve received for nearly 30 years. We are dedicated […]
Category: Midwest
The Shelby Report of the Midwest covers grocery retailers, wholesalers and suppliers in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Follow the latest store openings, remodels, leadership changes and market news from the region.
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Hy-Vee’s Homefront Effort Raises More Than $216K To Assist Veterans
In November, Hy-Vee encouraged its customers to join its Hy-Vee Homefront initiative and help serve the men and women who have served America. Through its efforts, Hy-Vee will be donating more than $216,000 to organizations that assist local veterans and their families. The Hy-Vee Homefront initiative is comprised of several company efforts to recognize and […]
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Freshway Foods Receives Cornerstone Partner Award
Freshway Foods, a fresh fruit and vegetable processor, repacker, distributor and logistics provider, has been recognized with the Cornerstone Partner Award by Gordon Food Service. The award, which is the highest that Gordon Food Service bestows, was announced at the 2015 North American Vendor Involvement Process (VIP) Award Dinner. The Cornerstone Award recognizes suppliers who […]
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Michigan Marketing Company Creates Recipe Videos With Price Chopper
ViMax Media LLC, a Michigan-based food marketing agency, is teaming with New York-based Price Chopper to create custom recipe videos. They also will produce a series of specialty seasonal videos that highlight Price Chopper brands and prepared foods and custom Pinterest graphics that will be integrated with the Price Chopper video marketing campaign. The videos […]
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Coborn’s New Isanti, Minnesota, Location Will Feature C-Store With Car Wash
Coborn’s plans to build a new grocery store in Isanti, Minnesota. The St. Cloud-based company says the Isanti supermarket will showcase the next generation of Coborn’s store features, with a significant amount of the store dedicated to fresh offerings. The approximately 45,000-s.f. store will be located at the corner of Highway 65 and County Road […]
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Cub Foods President Stigers To Succeed Supervalu’s Retiring Haugarth
Supervalu’s Janel Haugarth, EVP and president of the company’s Independent Business and Supply Chain Services, plans to retire Dec. 26. Mike Stigers, current president of Cub Foods, has been appointed EVP of Independent Business and Supply Chain to succeed Haugarth. Haugarth has spent nearly 40 years with the Minneapolis-based company and served in a variety […]
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Buche Foods Keeps Pace Walking In Founder’s Footsteps 110 Years Later
by Terrie Ellerbee/associate editor With a name like Gus, he’s got to be a grocer. Gus Buche, that is, the seven-year-old son of fourth-generation grocer RF Buche. Gus is named for RF’s great-grandfather, August Francis Buche, who started the family business 110 years ago in Lake Andes, South Dakota. GF Buche Co. and the state […]
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Hy-Vee Hosting Annual Veterans Day Breakfasts On Wednesday
Hy-Vee will host its annual Veterans Day breakfasts on Wednesday to recognize and thank veterans and active-duty military members for their service and provide them with a complimentary meal. West Des Moines, Iowa-based Hy-Vee expects to serve more than 80,000 veterans, military members and their guests at 240 stores across its eight-state region this year. […]
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Niemann Foods To Acquire Covington Foods’ County Market Stores
Niemann Foods Inc. (NFI) has signed a purchase agreement with Covington Foods to acquire six County Market stores. The stores are located in Crawfordsville, Covington and Attica, Indiana, and Danville and Tilton, Illinois. The transfer of ownership is expected on or before Jan. 7, 2016. “After 56 years of operating our stores and serving the […]
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Schnucks To Open New Evansville, Indiana, Store, On Nov. 11
Schnucks will open its sixth store in southern Indiana—in Evansville—with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, Nov. 11, beginning at 8:45 a.m.; the store will open at 9 a.m. The new 59,000-s.f. full-service grocery and pharmacy features service meat and seafood departments; a service deli with sliced-to-order specialties, including Boar’s Head meats and cheeses; a floral […]
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Iowa Grocery Industry Association Inducts Five Into Hall Of Fame
The Iowa Grocery Industry Association (IGIA) will honor Hy-Vee’s Tom Watson with the IGIA Retailer of the Year Award during its 22nd Annual Hall of Fame Dinner at 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 5, at the Veterans Memorial Community Choice Credit Union in Des Moines, Iowa. The evening’s highlights also will include awarding Bob Myers, Casey’s […]
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Country Hearth Breads Launches Great Holiday Get-Together Sweepstakes
St. Cloud, Minnesota-based Country Hearth breads is offering Midwest consumers the chance to win one of two $1,000 cash awards with the “Great Holiday Get-Together Sweepstakes.” Pan-O-Gold Baking Co., bakers of Country Hearth and Village Hearth breads, is sponsoring the sweepstakes open to residents age 18 and older in its Upper Midwest market area. Entries […]
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Liras Promoted To VP Of Manufacturing At Lipari Foods
Lipari Foods has promoted Spiro Liras to VP of manufacturing, according to the company’s president and CEO, Thom Lipari. Liras joined JLM Manufacturing, a division of Lipari Foods, in 2009 as the director of manufacturing when the facility was exclusively confections packaging. JLM has since expanded its operational space multiple times, along with several acquisition […]
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Tony’s Fresh Market Is IFRA’s 2015 Industry Retailer Award Recipient
Tony’s Fresh Market is the Illinois Food Retailers Association (IFRA) 2015 Industry Retailer Award recipient. The company was honored during the IFRA-Grocery Merchandisers Association (GMA) Annual Conference and Expo, which was held earlier this month at the Drury Lane Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace. “The IFRA board of directors unanimously chose Tony’s Fresh Market as […]
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Angelic Bakehouse Achieves Non-GMO Project Verification
Angelic Bakehouse, a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certified bakery specializing in sprouted grain products, has received Non-GMO Project Verified status for its best-selling product, Sprouted Seven-Grain bread. The Non-GMO Project is North America’s only third-party source for verification and labeling of non-GMO food and products. The Milwaukee-based company expects the remainder of its product […]
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Grocery Pickup Cincinnati To Launch Nov. 16 With Kroger
Grocery Pickup Cincinnati is set to launch on Nov. 16, pairing with the Kroger online shopping and curbside pick-up service to provide customers with pick up and home delivery of their orders. “After the announcement by Kroger that they were testing online grocery shopping, order fulfillment, and curbside pick up, we decided to hire a […]
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Hy-Vee Partners With iMedicare To Offer Seniors Free Drug Plan Comparisons
Hy-Vee, which operates more than 235 stores across the Midwest, and iMedicare have teamed up to deliver a new service for patients 65 years of age or older that provides Medicare Part D plan comparison options in a consolidated report. Medicare open enrollment began Oct. 15, and many seniors are not on the most cost-effective […]
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Carlin O’Brien Becomes Carlin Group
Carlin O’Brien, a privately owned full-service brokerage and member of BeaconUnited, is changing its name to Carlin Group—a name change the company says better reflects the regional CPG sales and marketing agency it has become. The news comes as Carlin Group participates in this year’s National Association of Convenience Stores and the National Frozen and […]
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Fareway Hosting Round Up For Children’s Charity Through Oct. 24
Fareway Stores has partnered with Variety—the Children’s Charity to conduct a round up at the register through Saturday, Oct. 24. All customers will have the opportunity to round up to the next dollar or to provide an additional donation on their grocery store bill to improve the lives of underprivileged, at-risk and special needs children […]
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Minnesota’s Own Campaign Joins Grocers, Others To Help Hungry Families Statewide
The Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) is encouraging consumers statewide to “check hunger off their lists” by shopping at participating retailers during the October Minnesota’s Own campaign. All food and monetary contributions collected in store will go to local food banks and shelves to benefit hungry Minnesota families. Minnesota’s Own is a three-way partnership of grocers, […]