ECRM is launching its 2021 Global Market: Fall Experience, which will bring together buyers and product suppliers from around the world across all major consumer packaged goods categories to meet virtually Oct. 18-22. “If the success and scale of 2021 Global Market: Food & Beverage told us anything, it was that this is exactly what the industry has […]
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Avocados from Peru Joins NBC, Telemundo TV On Olympic Coverage
The Washington, D.C.-based Peruvian Avocado Commission, under its Avocados from Peru banner, will feature TV, OTT (via the internet) and digital content of the Tokyo Olympics, to be held July 23-Aug. 8. The coverage will run in more than 20 major U.S. markets throughout the duration of the Olympics and the rest of the summer. […]
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GetUpside Expands Grocery Footprint With Three New Retail Partners
GetUpside, a retail technology company that guarantees profit for more than 30,000 brick-and-mortar businesses nationwide, says three regional grocery retailers have joined the platform. This raises the total number of GetUpside grocery locations to more than 175. GetUpside will now be available for shoppers at: Cardenas Markets (Los Angeles, Phoenix, San Francisco Bay Area and […]
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C&S Wholesale Grocers To Purchase Piggly Wiggly Midwest
Keene, New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers has entered into a definitive agreement with Piggly Wiggly Midwest with the intent to purchase the Wisconsin-based wholesaler. Piggly Wiggly Midwest operates corporate stores and services independent franchisees under a chain-style program. Since 1911, Sheboygan, Wisconsin has been the home to Piggly Wiggly Midwest’s headquarters, where it has its corporate offices and […]
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Goya Foods Pledges $2M To Combat Child Trafficking
Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic owned food company in the United States, held a press conference July 15 in Washington, D.C., to pledge $2 million to combat child trafficking and to launch Goya Cares. Thousands of children, men and women fall victim to human trafficking in the United States. One out of three is a child. The top U.S. […]
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Kroger Named To Computerworld’s Top 100 Best Places To Work In IT
Cincinnati, Ohio-based The Kroger Co. has been named to Computerworld magazine’s Top 100 Best Places to Work in IT for 2021. This year’s recognition marks the fourth consecutive year that Kroger’s technology and digital team has been recognized by this annual list for its workplace culture. Kroger ranks No. 51 among large companies on the 2021 list. “Every […]
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Independent Grocers Respond To Biden Antitrust Executive Order
The National Grocers Association on July 9 responded to the Biden administration’s introduction of the Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy. The order includes 72 initiatives to address antitrust across multiple industries including retail, tech, agriculture and pharmaceuticals. “We appreciate President Biden’s executive order addressing the nation’s competition policy, specifically its focus […]
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Independents Critical To Overcoming SNAP Healthy Food Access Hurdles
by Molly Pfaffenroth, NGA senior director of government relations The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently released a study on the barriers to healthy eating experienced by participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The barriers cited in the “Barriers that Constrain the Adequacy of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Allotments” report include factors such […]