Utz Brands is celebrating its 100-year anniversary of making snack foods with summer and fall sweepstakes and promotions, including Utz’s Blow Out The Candles Sweepstakes. The Utz story began in Hanover, Pennsylvania, in 1921 in a small-town kitchen. Bill and Salie Utz thought potato chips could be better. They believed potato chips should be made from clean […]
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Stop & Shop’s Annual Food For Friends Campaign Raises Over $2 Million
Stop & Shop’s 31st annual Food for Friends campaign raised more than $2 million for its 12 regional food bank partners to combat summer hunger in the communities it serves, breaking all previous years’ donation records. The Quincy, Massachusetts-based retailer also teamed up with Knorr, an international brand offering a wide range of bouillons, soups, seasonings, sauces, soupy […]
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UNFI Selects Crisp To Help Suppliers Use Data For Insights, Planning
Crisp, one of the first programmatic commerce platforms for the food and beverage industries, has formalized a relationship with United Natural Foods Inc., North America’s largest publicly-traded grocery wholesaler and distributor. Using the Crisp platform, food and beverage brands will be able to share, manipulate and utilize UNFI data within their own business intelligence tools such […]
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ShopRite To Donate Up To $1 Million For ShopRite For My School Program
ShopRite encouraged customers to take part in its ShopRite For My School program, an education rewards program powered by Box Tops for Education. This program provides incentives to designated schools from ShopRite customers who purchase select General Mills, Wholesome Pantry Organic, Bowl & Basket, Paperbird and Paperbird Premium products – no clipping required. By using […]
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Associated Supermarket Group Welcomes McKillop As DSD Manager
Port Washington, New York-based Associated Supermarket Group welcomes Bill McKillop as direct service delivery manager and will be reporting to Jonathan D’Onofrio, VP of merchandising. ASG is committed to building a stronger DSD program for its retail network. McKillop will be responsible for advocating on behalf of ASG stores with the DSD vendor community to […]
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Stop & Shop Survey Shows Consumers Care Where Seafood Originates
A recent survey commissioned by Stop & Shop showed that 85 percent of East Coasters prefer seafood on the grill. The survey, which looked at consumers’ seafood preferences, also revealed that fried clams beat out raw, and that when it comes to purchasing seafood, 68 percent take into consideration where their seafood comes from. Stop & […]
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Arnold, Brownberry and Oroweat Debuts Whole Grains Small Slice Line
Horsham, Pennsylvania-based Arnold, Brownberry and Oroweat Breads has launched its new Small Slice line. Health-minded consumers can now enjoy the same taste of the brand’s signature oatnut and 100 percent whole wheat varieties in a smaller slice format. Each Small Slice variety offers 70-80 calories per slice. As with all of the brand’s whole grains varieties, the new Small […]
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Almazul Mexican Creates Blue Agave Margarita Wine Cocktail
Motivated by consumer demand for an easy to drink, refreshing margarita, Almazul is a ready-to-drink Mexican blue agave margarita wine cocktail. Almazul is made with blue agave wine, real lime juice and agave nectar for a clean, crisp flavor with a smooth finish. Made in Mexico, this latest innovation from Heineken USA is gluten free […]