Food Distributors

Food Distributors provides current news, business and industry trends, and innovative practices of food service and distribution companies, with wholesale and retail coverage. Developments affecting agricultural produce requiring temperature-controlled treatment and other perishable items are included, as well as dairies, supermarkets, and convenience stores.

Dairies

Friendly Ice Cream Corp
emerges from Chapter 11
Jan 10, 2012 10:02 AM

Friendly Ice Cream Corporation and its subsidiaries, the operator of Friendly’s restaurants and a nationwide distributor of ice cream products, announced that the company has successfully emerged from its voluntary Chapter 11....

Dairy.com makes Fast 500
Dec 2, 2011 9:58 AM

Dairy.com has earned a ranking on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology companies in North America....

Food Service

DLA helps US military
savor a taste of home
with Super Bowl fare
Feb 3, 2012 10:06 AM

When US military forces serving in Afghanistan watch the New England Patriots and New York Giants battle in this year’s Super Bowl, thanks to the Defense Logistics Agency, they can enjoy a variety of American home-style finger foods....

Gordon Food Service
acquires broadline
distributor Perkins
Feb 2, 2012 10:11 AM

Gordon Food Service has acquired Perkins, a leading broadline foodservice distributor based in Taunton MA....

Supermarkets

FoodLink online network
grows significantly in 2011
Feb 2, 2012 10:02 AM

FoodLink experienced significant growth in 2011, adding new customers at a record pace, introducing new products, and growing network commerce for fresh produce by more than 30%....

Glidewell Distributing
joins grocery supplier
Jan 31, 2012 9:56 AM

Glidewell Distributing of Fort Smith AR has received final approval for membership with national grocery supplier Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG)....

Food Distributors

Bay Grove Capital
acquires Richmond
Cold Storage Co LLC
Oct 11, 2011 10:09 AM

Bay Grove Capital LLC, a principal investment firm based in San Francisco CA, has acquired Richmond Cold Storage Company LLC (RCS), a third-party warehousing logistics company headquartered in Richmond VA....

Melon growers beat the heat,
gain bigger fruit with Purshade
Apr 15, 2010 1:20 PM

Purfresh has announced that Palmer Farm of Texas achieved a significant increase in the average size of melons and decrease in sun damage using the company’s patents-pending solar stress protectant—Purshade....

Wal-Mart Canada to build
‘green’ distribution facility
Feb 19, 2010 11:02 AM

Wal-Mart plans to spend $115 million Canadian (about US $108 million) to build a refrigerated distribution center in western Canada....

OTA elects Hollamon
president of council
Jan 13, 2010 10:16 AM

At the recent annual meeting of the Oregon Trucking Associations (OTA), Nicole Hollamon was elected president of the OTA Technology and Maintenance Council....

Trega Foods expands,
acquires Green Meadows
Dec 4, 2009 9:46 AM

Agropur’s board of directors announced that Trega Foods, the Canadian dairy cooperative’s US subsidiary, has acquired Green Meadows Foods, a new cheese factory in Hull IA....

iGPS urges federal probe
into risks of wood pallets
Aug 12, 2009 10:00 AM

iGPS Company has called on the US Food & Drug Administration to launch an investigation of wood pallets and the risks they may pose to the nation’s food supply. ...

Forgotten Harvest gets
hybrid help for its fleet
Jun 10, 2009 9:33 AM

Forgotten Harvest, the Detroit MI mobile food rescue organization, has taken delivery of its first hybrid-powered truck....

Fresh Del Monte sees
net sales decline in 1Q
May 4, 2009 11:48 AM

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter that ended March 27, 2009....

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