Ingles Markets Inc. on Monday reported record sales of $3.74 billion for fiscal 2013, its 49th consecutive year of sales growth. Net income for the fourth quarter totaled $15.6 million, 17.2 percent higher than net income of $13.3 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012. For the full fiscal years, net income was $20.8 […]
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Harris Teeter To Anchor Antiquity Community’s Retail Center In Cornelius, N.C.
Antiquity, a smart-growth community located 20 miles north of Charlotte in downtown Cornelius, N.C., will develop a new 53,000-s.f. Harris Teeter grocery store with a drive-thru pharmacy to anchor the community’s retail town center. Groundbreaking for the new Harris Teeter store is April 2014 and it will open the in the first quarter of 2015, […]
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Food Lion Debuts New Format As It Reopens Concord, N.C., Store
Food Lion reopened its Concord, N.C., store at 860 Union St. on Wednesday, launching the grocer’s newest format. The store has been fully redesigned to make grocery shopping easy and convenient for customers, Salisbury, N.C.-based Food Lion says. “I want to personally welcome our customers back to the redesigned Union Street Food Lion and invite […]
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Supervalu To Unveil East Coast’s Largest Natural Gas-Powered Truck Fleet, New Fill Station In Va.
As one of the nation’s leading grocery distributors, Supervalu says it has always strived to provide its customers with the best products at a great value. Now, those products are arriving at grocery store shelves across the eastern region with a much smaller carbon footprint, thanks to the recent addition of 35 Class 8 Volvo […]
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State Of The Southeast: Region Sees Shakeup In 2013
A number of big stories came out of the southeastern states in 2013. Many of them involved companies having to regroup and/or sell off their holdings, but there were a couple of bright spots as well, including mergers and strong performance. Below are 10 of the most noteworthy stories as reported by The Shelby Report […]
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LeBlanc’s Opens Eighth Store As It Introduces Frais Marche Concept
LeBlanc’s Food Stores opened its eighth south Louisiana location earlier this month, introducing local shoppers to its new Frais Marche concept—that’s French for “Fresh Market.” The new store is at the corner of Airline Highway and Duplessis Road and is the fourth Ascension Parish location for the local supermarket family. The 55,000-s.f. location is the […]
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Meat- And Produce-Focused Freshfields Farm Opens In Jacksonville
Freshfields Farm, which converted a former Southside furniture store into a meat and produce market, opened in Jacksonville, Fla., last week. The Jax Daily Record reports that the former Liberty Furniture store at Interstate 95 and University Boulevard underwent a partial demolition and reconstruction into a barn-looking building that will house fresh produce and meats, […]
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Danfoss Names Winn-Dixie Its Fourth EnVisioneer Of The Year
Danfoss, a leading manufacturer of high efficiency electronic and mechanical components and controls for air-conditioning, heating, refrigeration and motion systems, has recognized supermarket chain Winn-Dixie as the winner of its fourth annual EnVisioneer of the Year award. Winn-Dixie, a subsidiary of Bi-Lo Holdings, the ninth-largest conventional supermarket chain in the U.S. based on net sales, […]