Bodega Latina Corp., doing business as El Super, a U.S. Hispanic grocer and a subsidiary of Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. DE C.V., has agreed to acquire Fiesta Mart LLC. Fiesta, a portfolio company of ACON Investments LL, is a Texas-based international food retailer with an emphasis on the Hispanic segment, operating 63 stores primarily in […]
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Recommended: Nearly 200 Cheeses Are Sold At Harmons Grocery Stores In Utah, And This 32-Year-Old Has Eaten Them All
Mariah Christensen has every cheese lover’s dream job — traveling, tasting and deciding which of the world’s cheddars, goudas and mozzarellas should be sold at Harmons Grocery Stores in Utah. The 32-year-old specialty cheese buyer is good at it, too. She recently was inducted into the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers, the French name for the […]
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World Centric Intros Updated Retail Packaging And Branding
Petaluma, California-based World Centric, maker of compostable products, will be introducing its new retail packaging and refreshed brand identity by phasing it in over the next six months. The updated look will begin to roll out onto retail shelves nationwide in early May. The company’s entire retail line will be updated with the new look, […]
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Ralphs President Valerie Jabbar Honored As West Woman Executive Of The Year
For her three decades in the grocery industry, her leadership abilities, her embracing of new challenges, her devotion to education and giving back in her career as well as her determination to keep her family life a priority—all of these reasons pointed to Valerie Jabbar as a worthy recipient of the Woman Executive of the […]
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Smart & Final Stores Reports Strong Sales Despite 4Q Net Loss
Smart & Final Stores Inc. has released its financial results for the fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended Dec. 31, 2017. Highlights of the report include: Net sales increase of 6.7 percent to $1.07 billion, driven by comparable store sales increase of 3.2 percent. Online options for both business and household customers, including delivery or in-store pickup […]
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Mi Pueblo Reemerges As Cardenas Markets Following Merger
Cardenas Markets LLC has completed the rebannering of 15 Mi Pueblo stores to Cardenas Markets following last year’s merger of the two Hispanic grocery chains. The rebannering began with the remodel of the Oakland, California, Mi Pueblo in December 2017. Today, the final two Mi Pueblo locations, in East Palo Alto and San Rafael, opened […]
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Harmons Specialty Cheese Buyer Honored By International Organization
Mariah Christensen, a specialty cheese buyer for Harmons Neighborhood Grocer, was nominated and inducted into the Garde et Jure by the Guilde Internationale des Fromagers, making her the second person in Utah to receive this honor. The Guilde is comprised of 6,000 members representing 35 countries and is dedicated to educating and maintaining knowledge and respect for the […]
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Kenneth Olsen, Former Vons President & CEO, Passes Away At 99
Grocery industry veteran Kenneth Oscar “Ken” Olsen passed away peacefully on March 4 in the comfort of his Southern California home. He was 99. Born June 13, 1918 in Brooklyn, New York, Mr. Olsen was the son of Norwegian immigrants Sophia Abrahamsen and Mikal Marcellus Olsen. He was enrolled at NYU when the war broke […]
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Impossible Foods Hires Creative Director Ahead Of Retail Launch
Impossible Foods, maker of the plant-based Impossible Burger, has hired creative veteran Sasha Markova as the company’s first executive creative director. Markova will lead Impossible Foods’ in-house creative team, which will manage all visual messaging across the brand’s channels. The move comes after Impossible Foods began producing burgers at its first full-scale production plant in […]
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California Perspective: Strength Comes In Unity
by Ron Fong/president and CEO, California Grocers Association Have you ever stopped to closely look at a piece of rope? Like one, for example, used to tie a boat, or even a ship, to a dock? It can actually be a little shocking. Because if you did, you would see that the big, bulky, strong […]
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Mother’s Market Opening First Los Angeles-Area Store Saturday
Mother’s Market & Kitchen, a 40-year-old natural and organic food retailer with seven Orange County, California, stores, is hosting a grand opening for its first Los Angeles-area store in Signal Hill. The 13,000-s.f. store, located at 2475 Cherry Ave., will employ 100 associates. A public event will take place on Saturday, Feb. 17, from 10:00 a.m. […]
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Local Food Banks Receive 3.7M Meals From Raley’s Holiday Bag Drive
This year’s Raley’s Food For Families holiday bag drive, which provides food for Northern California and Nevada families, culminated in a donation of 3,759,535 meals, representing a 29 percent increase vs. last year. The Raley’s Food For Families holiday bag drive, in its 31st year, is an initiative that takes place across Raley’s family of stores […]
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Housewares Design Awards Names 2018 Winners
The Housewares Design Awards, an awards program focused on housewares design innovation, honored three “Best of the Best” and 11 “Best in Category” winners in late January during a ceremony held in Las Vegas. The honorees were chosen from 55 finalists. The Best of the Best Gold award went to Blueair for the Blue Pure […]
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CEO Out At New Seasons Market As Retailer Rethinks Calif. Strategy
New Seasons Market CEO Wendy Collie is departing the Portland, Oregon-based grocery chain as the company makes a “strategic shift in business direction.” Other changes include a flattening of the executive leadership structure, as well as a decision to close the Sunnyvale, California, New Seasons location and halt further expansion in the state. In California, […]
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Cooley To Talk Balancing Benefits, Employee Retention At NGA Show
Chris Cooley, co-founder of MyHRConcierge and SMB Benefits Advisors and author of The Shelby Report’s HR & Benefits News column, will present a working session called “Stop Rolling the Dice with Employee Health Benefits,” on Feb. 11 at the NGA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The session, one of four taking place at the show, will focus on helping […]
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Meal Kit Service Sun Basket Turns To Sealed Air For Recyclable Packaging
Sealed Air, a packaging solutions company, is providing sustainable box liners to national meal kit delivery service Sun Basket. “Known for its commitment to using organic produce and sustainable ingredients as well as recyclable packaging, Sun Basket also wanted new insulation materials for its shipping boxes while retaining its commitment to 100 percent recyclable packaging,” says Sealed […]
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Recommended: California’s Proposition 47—Crime And No Consequences
California’s Proposition 47 downgraded a variety of “non-serious, nonviolent crimes” that had previously been considered felonies to misdemeanors. These include shoplifting, grand theft, receiving stolen property, forgery, fraud, and writing bad checks. As long as the total value of the stolen property is under $950, only a ghost of an offense has occurred. A thief […]
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Secretary Of Agriculture Perdue To Speak At NGA Show This Weekend
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will address the independent supermarket industry during the 2018 NGA Show opening keynote session on Sunday, Feb. 11, in Las Vegas, Nevada. “We’re excited to welcome Secretary Perdue to The NGA Show and have him share his thoughts on the public-private partnership shared between the USDA and stakeholders within […]
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Beyond Meat Building New R&D Center In Los Angeles
Plant-based meat purveyor Beyond Meat is building a new 26,000-s.f. research and development center at its headquarters in El Segundo, California. The new facility will house more than 100 employees and will be the new home to Beyond Meat’s Manhattan Beach Project, an ongoing initiative to “bring the best and brightest scientists, engineers, food technologists, […]
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Tyson Foods Invests In ‘Cultured Meat’ Startup Memphis Meats
“Clean meat” or “cultured meat” company Memphis Meats, which focuses on producing real meat directly from animal cells, without the need to raise or process animals, has received an investment from the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods Inc. Tyson Foods joins a number of other investors in Memphis Meats, including DFJ, Atomico, Cargill, Bill […]