Haddon House of Medford, N.J., has joined the IX-ONE product data and image exchange as a charter member. The goal of IX-ONE is to provide clean, accurate and standardized product data and images to the trade. Haddon House will work closely with IX-ONE to help grow the exchange and strongly encourage the participation of its […]
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Stew Leonard’s Is Coming to Long Island
Stew Leonard’s will open its fifth store and first grocery store location on Long Island in Farmingdale, N.Y., in early 2016. The family-owned and -operated store, nicknamed the “Disneyland of Dairy Stores” by The New York Times, was founded as a dairy store in 1969 in Norwalk, Conn., and has grown to include three other […]
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Jonathan Weis Becomes New President, CEO At Weis Markets
Jonathan Weis has been appointed as Weis Markets’ president and CEO. Weis, 46, also will retain his role as vice chairman of the Sunbury, Pa.-based company. Prior to this announcement, Weis served as the company’s interim CEO. As president and CEO, Weis will oversee all aspects of the company’s retail, supply chain, merchandising, human resources, […]
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Uncle Charley’s Sausage Purchased By Pittsburgh Investors
Pittsburgh-based investors F.N.B. Capital Partners, along with a group of local investors, including Jim Rudolph and Len Caric, have acquired the region’s fastest growing meat processing company, Uncle Charley’s Sausage Co. The investors say they plan to increase funding to expand the business while keeping its unique brand value, leadership, Vandergrift, Pa.-based manufacturing facilities and […]
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AG New England Acquires Bi-Wise Market, Will Operate As Sully’s
Bi-Wise Market of Allenstown, N.H., is selling its business to Associated Grocers of New England. “Bi-Wise Market has been in operation since August of 1966 and was founded by ‘Mighty’ Mike Genest and continues to be run by the Genest family,” says Mike Bourgoine, president and CEO of AG of New England. “Since that time, […]
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Giant Eagle’s Market District Express Store Format Offers Shopping, Dining Experience
Giant Eagle’s Market District food stores introduced on Thursday the company’s first innovative neighborhood restaurant dining and food shopping experience. The new Market District Express store is located on Route 19 and Circle Road in McMurray, Pa. The concept combines fresh, chef-created meals to eat in or take out with a curated selection of traditional […]
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D.C. Metro Fresh & Green’s Grocery Stores To Close
The Natural Markets Food Group (NMFG), parent company of Fresh & Green’s grocery stores, has decided to close its six Fresh & Green’s stores in Washington, D.C., and Maryland, citing the stores’ unprofitability. After a wind-down period, all will be closed by the end of December. NMFG acquired the former SuperFresh stores from A&P in […]
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Tops Friendly Markets Returns To Local Ownership
Tops Friendly Markets, a leading full-service grocery retailer in upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania and western Vermont, said today that the previously announced acquisition of Tops Holding II by a group of senior managers of the company led by Tops President and CEO Frank Curci closed on Dec. 1. During the past six years under […]