Pepsi Beverages Co. partnered with Des Moines, Iowa-based Fareway Stores to present a $5,000 donation to Variety—the Children’s Charity. Funds were raised during Pepsi’s recent Cases for Kids promotion held at Fareway locations. “We’re very proud to partner with Fareway and make this donation to Variety,” said Pepsi Beverages Co. GM Market Director Andy Dougherty. […]
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Minnesota Grocers Association Recognizes Six Companies For Efforts To Fight Hunger
The Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) has revealed the Silver Plate Award, Circular and Best Marketing Campaign winners of its 2015 “Minnesota’s Own” display contest. The contest is part of a state-wide campaign coordinated annually by MGA that engages Minnesotans in the fight to end hunger in their communities. Since 2008, participants in the “Minnesota’s Own” […]
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Smart & Final Launches Private Label Charitable Giving Campaign
Smart & Final has launched a new giving campaign, First Street First Percent, which donates the first 1 percent of net profits from the sale of its First Street private label brand products at its U.S.-based Smart & Final banner stores in California, Nevada and Arizona to the Smart & Final Charitable Foundation to support […]
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United Family Celebrates 100th Anniversary With $100K In School Donations
As part of United Supermarkets’ 100th anniversary celebration, The United Family will donate $100,000 to local schools throughout West Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth and eastern New Mexico as part of its Shop to Support Schools program. Through Oct. 15, guests may link a school of choice to their rewards account at any United Supermarkets, United Express, […]
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Industry Provides Water For Flint, Michigan, Students, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… Walmart, Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo are collectively donating water to meet the daily needs of more than 10,000 school children in Flint, Michigan, for the rest of the calendar year. That translates to 176 truckloads, or up to 6.5 million bottles of water, to help with relief efforts for those […]
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Food Lion Donating 49K Meals In Honor Of Panthers’ 49-15 Championship Win
Food Lion will donate 49,000 meals to Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina through Food Lion Feeds in honor of the North Carolina Panthers scoring 49 points in Sunday’s championship game in Charlotte. The grocer is donating 1,000 meals for each point scored during the game. The Panthers bested the Arizona Cardinals, 49-15, over the […]
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Brookshire Brothers’ Charitable Foundation Distributes Funds To 18 Groups
Since 2008, Texas-based Brookshire Brothers has invited its vendors to play in the company’s two Charitable Foundation golf tournaments each year. Proceeds since the tournament’s inception have exceeded $1 million. Vendors appreciate the opportunity to network with their colleagues while raising money for nearly 20 worthy causes—all which support children and families and align with the […]
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Indiana Industry Comes Together To Aid Flint, Michigan, Residents During Water Crisis
Teamsters Local 135 in Indianapolis, Indiana, led an effort Thursday to deliver a truckload of bottled water to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan in Flint to aid families impacted by the city’s toxic water emergency. The truck transported more than 1,000 cases of bottled water, donated by the union and Indiana Teamster employers, American Bottling, Coca-Cola Kokomo, Pepsi […]
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United Family Raises More Than $25K For South Plains Food Bank
The United Family, celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2016, says its annual holiday food drive and Lubbock, Texas, customers raised $25,129 for the South Plains Food Bank. This year’s donations exceeded last year’s food drive results by more than $5,000. Additionally, the Lubbock-area United Supermarkets, Market Street and Amigos locations sold 3,544 pre-packed bags valued […]
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Mars Chocolate, Wrigley Partner On Super Bowl Store Promotions, And More…
Convenience Store News In Brief… Wrigley and Mars have rolled out their first-ever joint, in-store promotion for the Super Bowl. The program includes in-store displays and consumer promotions designed to help retailers drive sales around the Super Bowl, the year’s biggest snacking occasion behind Thanksgiving… Greg Levitan has joined the National Association Of Convenience Stores […]
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Dannon Teams Up With Feeding America To Provide 1.6M Meals
Foodservice operators, consumers and The Dannon Co. of White Plains, New York, recently rallied around Dannon’s “Sack Hunger” campaign to support the fight to end hunger in the U.S., raising more than 1.6 million meals in three months. The Sack Hunger program was initiated through a unique partnership between Danone Food Service, the NFL and long-standing partner Feeding […]
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Foodshare Of Connecticut Awarded $100K Grant By MassMutual, And More…
Supermarket News In Brief… Foodshare of Bloomfield, Connecticut, has been awarded a $100,000 grant by MassMutual Life Insurance Co. through its annual employee giving program. James Arena-DeRosa, Foodshare president, says the grant will be used to support Foodshare’s efforts to fight hunger in Connecticut’s Enfield and Hartford counties… The Connecticut Food Association’s annual meeting/installation of […]
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FDA Extends Public Comment On ‘Natural’ Food Labeling, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… In direct response to requests from the public, the FDA has extended the comment period for the use of the term “Natural” on food labeling. The comment period will now end on May 10. In early December, the Natural Products Association (NPA) submitted a formal request to the FDA for […]
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U.S. Le Cordon Bleu Schools To Close In 2017, And More…
Foodservice News In Brief… Sixteen Le Cordon Bleu schools in the U.S., including one in Cambridge, Massachusetts, will close. The last new students will be those enrolled by Jan. 4. The campuses will shutter in January 2017 after all students complete courses… Boston city health officials cleared Chipotle Mexican Grille’s Cleveland Circler location to open […]
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Organic Valley Passes $1B Milestone, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… On Dec. 22, CROPP Cooperative/Organic Valley reached a milestone: the farmer-owned cooperative surpassed $1 billion in sales. Founded in 1988 by seven struggling farm families in southwest Wisconsin, Organic Valley now has a membership of 1,800 farmers producing organic food in 35 states. Company officials say it is the first […]
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Giant/Martin’s Customers Donate More Than $630K To Local CMN Hospitals
Customers at Giant Food Stores and Martin’s Food Markets gave generously this holiday season by donating $630,028 to local Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Hospitals in their communities. As part of Giant/Martin’s annual “Candles for Kids” campaign, customers could purchase a paper candle at the checkout between Nov. 22 and Dec. 5 for $1 each. “For […]
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Isenberg Of Chex Finer Foods Among SFA’s 2016 Hall Of Fame Inductees, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… The Specialty Food Association (SFA) has revealed the 2016 class of the Specialty Food Hall of Fame, honoring 47 leaders who have been instrumental in building and shaping the $109 billion specialty food industry. Among the inductees: David Isenberg of Chex Finer Foods, Alfed Ciccotelli Sr. and Jr. of Cento […]
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NEFF Presents Father Murphy Award To Greater Boston Food Bank
The New England Food Foundation (NEFF) recently presented the Father Murphy Award to the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB). Father Murphy served as the spiritual director for the New England Food Foundation. The NEFF created the annual Rev. Frances J. Murphy Award in his honor because of his important role in the development and growth of the […]
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Tyson Food Service Aids D.C. Capital Food Fight, And More…
Foodservice News In Brief… Tyson Food Service recently sponsored DC Central Kitchen’s Capital Food Fight, a signature fundraising event. The event draws more than 1,000 guests with taste offerings from 75 of D.C.’s best restaurants and an onstage battle of four local top chefs. All proceeds from the event benefit DC Central Kitchen, which aims […]
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Goya Foods Donates 40K Pounds Of Food To Catholic Charities, And More…
New Channels News In Brief… Goya Foods has donated 50,000 pounds of food to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington to support its food pantries and emergency food programs throughout the archdiocese. The donation is part of a 150,000-pound donation equally distributed to food pantries and emergency food programs through Catholic Charities in New […]