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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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....

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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. ...

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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....

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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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