Reginald B. “Reg” Newman II, 80, former president and chairman of NOCO Energy, parent company of NOCO Convenience Stores of New York, died unexpectedly on April 7 at his winter home in Vero Beach, Florida. Mr. Newman expanded NOCO into the largest independent supplier of petroleum products in Western New York and one of the […]
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JOH Promotes Three To Leadership Posts In NY/NJ Region
Johnson O’Hare (JOH) promoted Doug Parker, Kenny Sassano and Scott Cassidy to leadership positions in the Metro New York and New Jersey region. Parker and Sassano were promoted to VPs, and Cassidy was promoted to director of Metro retail operations. Parker has worked in the food industry for 35 years; 20 years of his career […]
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Giant-Carlisle To Expand Store Network Across Pennsylvania
Giant Food Stores plans to construct six new stores, remodel two others and open five new fuel stations in Pennsylvania, representing a $70 million capital investment over the next two years. Through these plans, the Carlisle, Pennsylvania-based company will enter the East Stroudsburg and Walnutport communities for the first time. “We are positioning the company for […]
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Wawa Celebrates 54th Anniversary With Free Coffee
In honor of its 54th anniversary in convenience retailing, this year’s Wawa Day is Thursday, April 12, and Wawa will offer customers free coffee all day. Wawa expects to give away 2 million free cups of any-size coffee to customers at its more than 790 stores in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Florida and […]
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Bimbo Bakeries Earns Energy Star Partner Of Year Award
Bimbo Bakeries USA in Horsham, Pennsylvania, has been named a 2018 Energy Star Partner of the Year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in recognition of its companywide commitment to energy management strategy and leadership in the baking industry. “Bimbo Bakeries USA has always strived to be a leader in sustainability and minimize our carbon footprint,” said Fred […]
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Muller To Succeed Boer As Ahold Delhaize CEO July 1
Frans Muller has been appointed as the new CEO of Ahold Delhaize, effective July 1, following the retirement of current CEO Dick Boer. Mats Jansson, chairman of the supervisory board, said, “We thank Dick for his leadership and dedication throughout his 20-year career at Ahold Delhaize and Ahold. Dick’s accomplishments include the successful repositioning of […]
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Seafood Distributor Northern Wind Marks Its 30th Anniversary
Northern Wind of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a direct off-loader, processor and distributor of fresh and frozen scallops, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Located on the New Bedford waterfront, Northern Wind processes more than 15 million pounds of scallops per year. At March’s Boston Seafood Expo, Northern Wind introduced a new trade show booth and […]
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New York Grocery Icon Andrew Balducci Passes Away At 92
Andrew Balducci, co-owner of the original Balducci’s food store in New York City’s Greenwich Village, died late last month in Roslyn, New York, of Leukemia. He was 92. Mr. Balducci was born in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in Italy after his family moved back when he was two years old. He returned with his […]
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Sea Watch International Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
Sea Watch International celebrated its 40th anniversary on March 27. The company started with a cannery operation in Milford, Delaware, buying clams from independent clammers and shucking them at a small shucking house in Oyster, Virginia. In 1980, it added a fry line to make breaded clam strips for a growing market dominated by the familiar […]
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Chacko Takes The Helm At Ocean Spray Cranberries
Ocean Spray Cranberries‘ board of directors has unanimously elected Bobby Chacko as the company’s president and CEO. He also was elected to join the board of directors. Chacko will replace outgoing CEO Randy Papadellis, who announced he was stepping down in February. Chacko was named president and COO in January and joined Ocean Spray in 2017 as chief […]
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Wakefern Names New Director Of Business Development & Real Estate
Dan Tarnopol has been named the new director of business development and real estate for Wakefern Food Corp. Tarnopol will take over for Tish Daly, who is retiring from that role after 12 years. Tarnopol brings both legal and strategic expertise to the position. He joined Wakefern’s legal division in 2014 as corporate counsel and […]
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Eastern Produce Council To Honor Frieda Caplan At Annual Dinner
Frieda Rapoport Caplan, founder of Frieda’s Specialty Produce, is one of two women who will be honored for their contribution to the produce industry at the Eastern Produce Council (EPC) John J. McAleavey 52nd Annual Dinner Dance in Woodland Park, New Jersey, on April 7. Annabel Donio Arena, second-generation leader of Frank Donio Inc., based in […]
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Bridgewater, New Jersey, Whole Foods Features In-Store Mushroom Farm
Whole Foods Market Bridgewater, the first Somerset County, New Jersey, location for the natural and organic food retailer, opened late last week at 319 Chimney Rock Road at Route 22. The 49,000-s.f. store offers the grocer’s first indoor mushroom farm, developed in partnership with Smallhold, a New York City-based company that works with restaurants, grocery stores and […]
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ShopRite Offers Gourmet-Style, Better-For-You Meal Kits
ShopRite has launched a line of gourmet-style meal kits for customers seeking convenient, creative dinners with better-for-you ingredients. The packaged kits, available at select ShopRite stores in the supermarket’s six-state trading area, include a variety of entrees such as Thai Coconut Chicken, Chicken Marsala, Korean Beef Stir Fry, Moroccan Chicken and Pork Scaloppini. Each recipe […]
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New Three-Year Contract Sealed At Hannaford D.C. In Maine
Delhaize America and the union representing employees at a key Hannaford distribution center in South Portland, Maine, have agreed on a three-year contract. The agreement ends an impasse that resulted in workers going out on a 24-hour strike. Ahold Delhaize is the parent corporation of Hannaford Supermarkets, which is based in Scarborough, Maine. Delhaize America […]
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RifRaf Ricotta Snack Cups Launching In Select Whole Foods Stores
RifRaf Ricotta Cups—a first-of-its-kind ricotta cheese snack, according to startup company RifRaf—are coming to the dairy aisle at select Whole Foods Market stores. Combining spoonable, lightly cultured whole milk ricotta and a sidecar of flavored jams and honeys, RifRaf hopes to “upset an otherwise uniform yogurt category.” The Ricotta Cups will launch in five inaugural flavors: […]
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Wegmans Sets Leadership Team For April 29 Natick Opening
Wegmans Food Markets announced the leadership team managing its new store at Natick Mall in Natick, Massachusetts, which opens at 7 a.m. on Sunday, April 29. The Natick store is a 146,500-s.f. supermarket spanning two floors, including in-store café seating and featuring two restaurant concepts: The Burger Bar and Blue Dalia Mexican Restaurant & Tequila […]
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Big Y Reaches New Milestones In ‘Sack Hunger’ Campaign
Big Y Foods in Springfield, Massachusetts highlighted its recent “Sack Hunger” holiday program along with year-round efforts to donate food to all of the food banks it supports, reporting a total of more than 5 million meals donated in 2017. Big Y’s eighth annual Sack Hunger/Care to Share program brought nearly 22,000 bags of food to […]
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CVS Health Adds Two Programs To Fight Opioid Abuse In New Hampshire
CVS Health has announced two initiatives in New Hampshire designed to combat opioid abuse. The company has installed safe medication disposal units inside two CVS Pharmacy locations in the state to help facilitate proper and timely disposal of opioids and other medications that could be diverted or misused if left in people’s homes. In addition, the company […]
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Key Food, Goya Unite On 40K-Lb. Food Donation To City Harvest
Key Food Stores Co-operative teamed up with Goya Foods to donate 40,000 pounds of food to New York’s City City Harvest in mid-March. In total, Key Food and Goya will be donating 60,000 pounds of food as part of the Goya “Can Do” campaign. City Harvest will distribute this donation to 500 community food programs throughout […]