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BevMo Appoints Knutsen As Its New President And CEO

BevMo has named Josiah Knutsen, the company’s SVP of merchandising, as its new president and CEO. He succeeds Dimitri Haloulos, who has led the company over the past four years. Knutsen joined BevMo in 2018 to run all aspects of the retailer’s merchandising for its beer, wine, spirits and other business lines. Before joining BevMo, […]

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Dole ‘Sunshine For All’ Float Wins Queen Award At 2020 Rose Parade

Dole Packaged Foods’ 2020 Rose Parade float, “Sunshine for All,” took home the Queen Award, which is given to the float with the most outstanding presentation of roses. Dole said the float, which featured a large golden sun with tropical waterfalls, celebrated the company’s belief that everyone has the right to nutritious foods, and its […]

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Natural Grocers To Open 14th Oregon Store In Klamath Falls On Jan. 15

Natural Grocers will open a store in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on Wednesday, Jan. 15, providing the community with access to organic and natural groceries. The store, located at 2800 S. 6th Street, will open at 8:30 a.m., and customers will have the chance to win up to $100 per week in free groceries for six […]

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BlueNalu Highlights Cell-Based Yellowtail During Culinary Demonstration

BlueNalu, a San Diego-based food company developing seafood products directly from fish cells, recently held a culinary demonstration of one of its first commercial products, yellowtail amberjack, prepared with various cooking techniques. Investors and global partners were on hand to witness the preparation of the product. The company plans to introduce cell-based seafood in a […]

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Anchor Brewing Co. Workers Sign First Union Contract

Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 6, recently approved the first union contract in the history of 123-year-old Anchor Brewing Co. On Dec. 20, 62 workers at Anchor Brewing Co., which produces San Francisco’s Steam Beer, and includes Anchor Public Taps, the company’s brew pub, voted to ratify a three-year contract negotiated […]

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Blue Diamond Almond Growers To Be Featured On Rose Parade Float

Blue Diamond, the Sacramento, California-based almond marketer and processor, is bringing its almond-growing history to life in this year’s Rose Parade, the annual New Year’s Day event held in Pasadena, California. This is the second year the brand will participate in the parade. Blue Diamond’s Rose Parade float will feature Almond Breeze Almondmilk as the […]

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Smart & Final Raises Record Amount For Ninth Annual PastaThon

Smart & Final, the grocery warehouse store for household and business customers, recently raised money and collected pasta-related items for the ninth annual PastaThon, a fundraising event organized by KFI AM640 for Caterina’s Club. This year, the Los Angeles, California-based retailer supported the event with a record total of $85,000 in product and donations. This […]

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Bashas’, Hormel Foods Donate Hams To Help Feed Arizona Families

Hunger and food insecurity is a reality for thousands of Arizona families. That’s why Bashas’ teamed up with Hormel Foods to donate more than 3,000 hams to Arizona families in need on Wednesday, Dec. 18. Four organizations—St. Mary’s Food Bank, United Food Bank, the Navajo Nation Veterans Administration and Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona—came […]