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

WOW Logistics seeks
scholarship applicants
Mar 18, 2013 9:28 AM

WOW Logistics is offering its annual scholarship, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, to students attending a University of Wisconsin System school seeking a degree in dairy or food science....

Dean Foods Co meets
Energy Star Challenge
Feb 27, 2013 9:32 AM

Dean Foods Company has met the requirements for the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) “Energy Star Challenge for Industry” by reducing its energy intensity by 10% or more at 18 manufacturing locations....

Food Service

PakSense Inc
makes GreenSense
May 16, 2013 9:53 AM

PakSense Inc announced that all models of PakSense temperature monitoring labels can now be recycled through the company’s GreenSense recycling program....

C&S Wholesale Grocers
agrees to supply BI-LO,
Winn-Dixie supermarkets
May 15, 2013 9:32 AM

C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc will provide warehouse, transportation, and most procurement services for all 480 Winn-Dixie stores and continue providing services to all 206 BI-LO stores....

Supermarkets

C&S Wholesale Grocers
agrees to supply BI-LO,
Winn-Dixie supermarkets
May 15, 2013 9:32 AM

C&S Wholesale Grocers Inc will provide warehouse, transportation, and most procurement services for all 480 Winn-Dixie stores and continue providing services to all 206 BI-LO stores....

Pocono Produce unveils
its new brand identity
May 2, 2013 8:59 AM

Pocono Produce Co Inc has unveiled a new brand identity to more accurately market its capabilities and product offerings to the foodservice and retail industries....

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. ...