Landover, Maryland-based Giant Food has teamed up with Procter & Gamble to provide customers with all the resources they need for the ultimate homegating experience on Giant Food website. The site features exclusive game day recipes, from sweet to savory, by celebrity chef and restaurateur Tiffany Faison, as well as shopping lists and videos to […]
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Mr. Peanut Donates $5 Million To Reward Acts Of Extraordinary Substance
A year after Mr. Peanut’s death and rebirth as Baby Nut, the 105-year-old legume is officially back with a new purpose to pay it forward to put more substance into the world. Mr. Peanut will search out the everyday actions by people to make someone’s day brighter and the world a little better. Beginning this week, Mr. […]
Giant Eagle Earns Top Marks In 2021 Corporate Equality Index
Giant Eagle has received a score of 100 on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2021 Corporate Equality Index, the nation’s foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality. “We are fiercely committed to creating an inclusive, equitable and diverse work environment where every one of our 34,000 team […]
Kraemer Joins Krasdale Foods As General Manager
Krasdale Food has hired Ike Kraemer to serve as general manager of the company’s Bronx warehouse, responsible for all operations. Krasdale is a 112-year-old, family-owned business providing grocery distribution, merchandising and marketing to independent grocery store owners. Kraemer joined the company on March 2, 2020, two weeks prior to the lockdown, just as grocery stores began experiencing a strain in the […]
Sheetz For The Kidz Raises More Than $1.8 Million In 2020
Sheetz for the Kidz, an employee-driven charity supporting underprivileged children, raised more than $1.8 million for children in need in 2020. Sheetz is a family-owned and -operated restaurant and convenience chain across the Mid-Atlantic. “This past year, the need to help children in our communities was greater than it ever has been, and our incredible […]
The Giant Company Honored With FMI Gold Plate Award
The Giant Co., based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, has been awarded the 2020 Gold Plate Award by the FMI Foundation in the COVID-19 Heroes category. A new category for the annual awards program, it recognizes charitable programs that help families share meals together during the pandemic. The Giant Co. accepted the award for its program, “The […]
Select Massachusetts Stop & Shop Stores Administering Moderna Vaccine
Select Stop & Shop pharmacy locations in Massachusetts have begun to administer the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Per the state’s distribution plan, current eligible individuals must live, work or attend school in Massachusetts and includes healthcare workers as well as non-hospital-based healthcare personnel and residents of other long-term care settings covered under the rollout of Phase […]
PFMA Awards Prizes To PA Farm Show Butter Up! Contest Winners
Although the Pennsylvania Farm Show didn’t kick off this year with the unveiling of 1,000 pounds of carved butter, it reinvented the event staple for 2021. The Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association was excited to partner with the farm show and Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture on Butter Up!, a new, at-home butter sculpture experience. This […]
