The Minnesota Grocers Association, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture’s Minnesota Grown program, has named eight retailers as 2025-26 Minnesota Grown Retailer of the Year winners. Created by the agriculture department, the program promotes products grown and raised in Minnesota. For more than 40 years, it has connected consumers with local farmers, markets […]
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Grocery Business Is In DNA Of Mackenthun’s Fine Foods Family
by Terrie Ellerbee/editor-Midwest August Mackenthun opened a little butcher shop in Plato around the turn of the last century. The exact year is not known, said Kim Mackenthun, who with his son, Jaime, and daughter, Jessa, owns the business today. “Jaime and Jessa’s great-great-grandfather started a little store 12 miles west of (Waconia) right about […]
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Sen. Rarick Named 2019 MGA Hero Of The Food Industry
The Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) has named Sen. Jason Rarick (R-Pine City) as a 2019 Hero of the Food Industry. Rarick received the honor for his leadership in advancing the food industry’s priorities during the 2019 Minnesota Legislative Session. “Sen. Rarick fought tirelessly last session in promoting legislation that creates jobs and careers for his constituents. […]
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Minn. Gov. Tim Walz Proclaims September 2019 Family Meals Month
The proven health and societal benefits of family meals have inspired a month-long event aimed at helping families get back to the table. Gov. Tim Walz has proclaimed September as Family Meals Month. Grocers all across Minnesota are encouraging families to share one more meal together per week at home, and highlighting simple, healthy meal […]
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Minnesota Grocers Foundation Awards $74,500 In Scholarships
The Minnesota Grocers Association Foundation (MGAF) awarded $25,000 in scholarships to employees or their dependents from Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) member companies for the 2019-20 school year. The Foundation Scholarship program helps students who are related to Minnesota’s food industry by supporting their educational growth. To date, the foundation has awarded more than $800,000 in […]
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MGA Recognizes 14 Minnesota Companies For Hunger-Relief Efforts
The Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) has named the Silver Plate Award winners of its 2018 Bag Hunger Campaign contest (listed below). The contest is part of a statewide campaign coordinated annually by MGA that engages Minnesotans in the fight to bag hunger in their neighborhoods. The 2018 campaign donated $10,000 to Second Harvest Heartland with […]
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MGA Honors Senator Chamberlain As 2019 Legislator Of The Year
The Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) presented its 2019 MGA Legislator of the Year award to Sen. Roger Chamberlain (R – Lino Lakes) at its annual legislative dinner on Jan. 22 at the St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota. Each year, MGA acknowledges a lawmaker who demonstrates outstanding commitment to the retail food industry. The 2019 […]
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Kowalski’s Exec Named Minnesota Grocers Association Chair
The Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) has named Kris Kowalski-Christiansen, CEO of Kowalski’s Cos. Inc., as its new chair. Kowalski-Christiansen succeeded Mark Collier of Superfair Foods at MGA’s Annual Convention in Brainerd, Minnesota. Collier was honored for his two-year term as chair at the event, which was attended by more than 300 members of the Minnesota […]
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Minnesota Grocers Association Scholarship Programs Award $70,000
The Minnesota Grocers Association Foundation (MGAF) awarded $25,000 in scholarships to Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) member companies’ employees or their dependents for the 2018-19 school year. Using funds raised from an annual golf event and silent auction, the MGAF is able to award scholarships and community grants to support the educational growth of students with ties to […]