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

Meijer expands into dairy
ops via plant acquisition
Mar 30, 2012 9:44 AM

Grand Rapids MI-based retailer Meijer has acquired plant operations at Bareman’s Dairy, a local family-owned company based in Holland MI....

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....

Food Service

General Mills will market
Yoplait yogurt in Canada
May 15, 2012 10:11 AM

General Mills has confirmed that Yoplait SAS has reached an agreement to terminate the current Yoplait brand license in Canada effective September 1, 2012....

Vector 5100s provide
bushels of benefits
for produce center
May 14, 2012 11:45 AM

Like many North American metropolitan food distribution operations, the New England Produce Center (NEPC) in Chelsea MA uses stationary refrigerated trailers to manage capacity at its facility....

Supermarkets

Delhaize America, Food
Lion reopen distribution
center in North Carolina
May 11, 2012 11:31 AM

Delhaize America and Food Lion have reopened their distribution center in Dunn NC. The facility was severely damaged April 16, 2011 by a tornado, and the company recently completed construction and expansion activities at the center....

Family Dollar Stores
partners with McLane
May 10, 2012 11:34 AM

Family Dollar Stores Inc has entered into a strategic partnership with McLane, the provider of grocery and foodservice supply chain systems....

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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