The United Fresh Foundation, through its Center for Leadership Excellence, has launched its 2013 compensation survey for the fresh produce industry. The data collected will be published in an expansive research report that will assist produce industry employers in understanding critical compensation benchmarks. The compensation survey, which was first released in 2011, has been updated […]
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Green Innovations Adds Former Kimberly-Clark VP To Advisory Board
Green Innovations Ltd. has added Philip C. Rundle to the Miami-based company’s strategic advisory board. Rundle is a business leader with more than 20 years of domestic and international experience in the tissue, diaper, wipes and feminine care products business. “Philip’s direct industry experience at Kimberly-Clark and more recently at a leading U.S.A. tissue manufacturer […]
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Walmart’s New Online Project Promotes Small Women-Owned Businesses
Walmart today launched an online destination on Walmart.com that gives shoppers who want to buy unique and interesting products the opportunity to do so while supporting small women-owned businesses around the world. With each purchase, consumers lift and empower the women behind these products to create new jobs and improve both their own lives and […]
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Weak Outlook Sends Fresh Market To 52-Week Low
Greensboro, N.C.-based The Fresh Market Inc. today reported a higher profit and revenues for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, but the specialty grocer’s weak forecast and failure to meet analyst expectations sent its share prices tumbling, according to The Business Journal. Shares of The Fresh Market hit a 52-week low of $36.51 today after […]
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Weis Markets Issues 4Q Results
Weis Markets Inc. today reported its fourth quarter and year-end net income increases. The Sunbury, Pa.-based company says these results were achieved in a 52-week fiscal year compared to a 53-week fiscal year in 2011. For the 13-week period ending Dec. 29, 2012, the company’s net income increased 14.5 percent to $22.1 million compared to […]
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Once Again…A Proud History Shared
There are very few times in life when you have the opportunity and privilege of being part of, and announcing, the merger of two enduring, respected publications who share a history like The Griffin Report and The Shelby Report. We are extremely pleased to share with you this great news here. As of March 1, […]
Posted in, Northeast, Store News
Two Mass. Shaw’s Getting Belmont Savings Bank Branches
Belmont Savings Bank plans to open two new full-service in-store branches at Shaw’s Supermarkets: one at the Star Market located at 699 Mount Auburn St. in Cambridge, Mass., and another at the Shaw’s overlooking the Mass Pike at 33 Austin St. in Newtonville, Mass. The branches will open in the second and third quarters of […]
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Flowers Emerges Winning Bidder For Majority Of Hostess Bread Business
The stalking horse bid submitted by Flowers Foods Inc. for the majority of the assets related to Hostess Brands Inc.’s bread business, including the Butternut, Home Pride, Merita, Nature’s Pride and Wonder brands, will be the bid presented for approval to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court as no other qualified bids were received for those assets. […]
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World Alliance International Retail Conference Keynotes National Business Leaders
National retail leaders and the brands of Home Depot, Nintendo, Lego and Ghirardelli are registered for the 2013 Retail Merchandising & Marketing Conference, to be held April 27-30 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Representatives from 13 countries as far away as Russia will attend the international conference, to be hosted by the newly rebranded World Alliance for […]
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Nestle Hosts Its First Two On-Site Wind Turbines At Calif. Plant
Nestle is celebrating its first wind energy project in the world today with the hosting of two wind turbines at its Nestle Waters North America (NWNA) bottling plant in Cabazon, Calif. The turbines will provide wind power for 30 percent of the facility where the company produces its Arrowhead and Nestle Pure Life brand bottled […]
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NGA Recommends Opting Out And Objecting To Proposed Settlement
Seven and a half years ago, the National Grocers Association (NGA), at the direction of its board, elected to become a plaintiff in a class action payment card interchange fee and merchant discount antitrust litigation In Re Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation on behalf of NGA and its retail and wholesale grocers. NGA […]
Posted in, Southeast, Store News
Winn-Dixie Leases Former Bruno’s Location In Birmingham
Winn-Dixie has finalized a lease in the former Bruno’s location in the Inverness Corners shopping center in Birmingham, Ala. The Birmingham Business Journal reports that, after more than a year of negotiations, the grocery chain signed a 20-year lease Tuesday for about 54,000 s.f. in the center at the intersection of U.S. 280 and Valleydale […]
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Former Hostess Workers Eligible To Apply For Trade Adjustment Assistance
The U.S. Department of Labor said Tuesday that approximately 18,000 workers laid off in 48 states from 864 Hostess company locations are eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance. “As President Obama said in his State of the Union address, ‘to grow our middle class, our citizens must have access to the education and training […]
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Smucker’s Expanded Memphis Plant Will Manufacture Peanut Butter Brands
The Economic Development Growth Engine of Memphis & Shelby County has approved an application for payment-in-lieu-of-taxes benefits for J.M Smucker LLC for a proposed expansion of the company’s Memphis, Tenn., facility. The Memphis Business Journal reports that Smucker is planning a $55 million expansion that will add 65 new jobs to the 60 existing local […]
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Sprouts Farmers Market Said To Be Considering IPO
Phoenix, Ariz.-based Sprouts Farmers Market is mulling an initial public offering of stock, according to a Bloomberg report. The Phoenix Business Journal says that the natural foods grocer, which generates revenues in the neighborhood of $2 billion, may begin interviewing underwriters to work on an IPO. Sprouts, started as a family owned chain in 2002, […]
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2013 NGA Show Closes With Record Attendance Numbers
The National Grocers Association’s 2013 NGA Show has come to a close, having once again expanded its offerings to further solidify its reputation as the place “Where Independents Gather.” The annual four-day show was one of the largest in NGA history, with more than 2,700 in attendance including retailers, wholesalers and industry partners. The NGA […]
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Report: Harris Teeter Weighing Sale Of Chain
Shares of Matthews, N.C.-based grocer Harris Teeter jumped 6.6 percent Tuesday after reports that the company is considering a sale and has retained J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to explore its options, the Charlotte Observer reports. Harris Teeter operates 211 grocery stores, the majority of them in North Carolina. The company has been under increasing […]
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Simpson, Bowles Talk Fiscal Policy
During the NGA Show’s opening day, former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Erskine Bowles (D-N.C.), co-chairs of the National Commission for Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, discussed the economy and America’s current fiscal system in a lively keynote presentation. Both speeches emphasized unsustainable spending and national debt, covering healthcare, Social Security, national defense, taxes and […]
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Discount Retail Veterans Partner To Launch New Venture
A group of retail veterans with experience in the discount retail arena are uniting to create a new business that will include wholesale, retail and e-commerce components. The venture brings together executives with more than 200 years of combined retail experience in a value-based retail “dream team” of sorts, according to a news release. The […]
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NGA Announces Board Members, Executive Committee
The National Grocers Association (NGA), by recommendation of its nominating committee and a subsequent vote by its membership, recently elected 13 and re-elected six members to its board of directors. Retailer members elected to the board include: • RF Buche, president, GF Buche Co; • Eric Geyer, president/CEO, Geyer’s Markets Inc.; • Nolan Lockwood, president […]