Nature’s Own bread is now available throughout the Northeast in select supermarkets and grocery retail stores. New Nature’s Own markets include Boston and Springfield, Mass.; Providence, R.I.; Hartford, Conn.; Portland, Maine; Manchester, N.H.; and Albany, N.Y. Nature’s Own breads in the Northeast are baked by Lepage Bakeries in Auburn, Maine, and delivered fresh to stores […]
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Posted in, Executive News, Northeast
McCann Appointed COO Of Ahold USA
Ahold has appointed James McCann as COO of Ahold USA, effective Feb. 1, 2013. He will take over the role from Carl Schlicker, who has announced his retirement. McCann will continue as a member of Ahold’s corporate executive board. “I am very pleased that we have a strong leader for Ahold USA from within our […]
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Smithfield, UFCW Donate 1M-Plus Servings Of Protein To Sandy Relief
Smithfield, in partnership with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, will be donating a total of more than one million servings of protein to food banks in the Northeast tri-state area affected by Hurricane Sandy. As part of the Smithfield and UFCW Feeding the Hungry initiative, seven Smithfield trucks, each carrying more than […]
Posted in, Northeast, Suppliers
Goya Donates 300K Pounds Of Food, 25K Meals To Sandy Victims
Goya Foods, America’s largest Hispanic-owned food company, is donating more than 300,000 pounds of Goya products and more than 25,000 meals to victims of Hurricane Sandy in New York and New Jersey. With the aid of City Harvest in New York, The Community FoodBank of New Jersey, The United Way of Hudson County, local elected […]
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Fairway Market’s Turkey Ordering Website Goes Live
Need an organic turkey for Thanksgiving? Or a kosher one? A locally, humanely raised bird? Or do you want to impress your friends and family with a bird descended from the original Thanksgiving table? New York, N.Y.-based Fairway Market has them all and more, and all it takes to get them is a click on […]
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Industry Headed For Perfect Storm With Proposed Minimum Wage Increase
by Linda Doherty/president, New Jersey Food Council Special to The Shelby Report The New Jersey State Senate is moving forward to seek passage of SCR-1, which proposes to amend the New Jersey Constitution to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.25 per hour and with adjustments for inflation based on the consumer price index […]
Posted in, Market Profile, Northeast
New Jersey Struggles As Income Drops, Public Assistance Increases
[gn_note color=”#b1cbde”]The 2012 New Jersey Profile originally ran in the October 2012 edition of The Shelby Report of the Northeast.[/gn_note] by Kristen Cloud/staff writer New Jersey’s economy is struggling. Few would argue that. The Garden’s State’s unemployment rate hit a 35-year high of 9.9 percent in August, soaring over the national rate of 8.1 percent. […]
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Turkey Carving Demo At Fairway Market Set For Nov. 3
Fairway Market’s Master Butcher Ray Venezia will perform turkey carving demonstrations on Saturday, Nov. 3, at Fairway Market in Stamford, Conn. (699 Canal St.) from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.; in Pelham Manor, N.Y. (847 Pelham Pkwy.) from 1-2:30 p.m.; and in Woodland Park, N.J. (1510 US 46) from 3-4:30 p.m. He will offer guests simple, easy-to-follow […]