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Wakefern to Meet with Suppliers at Store Brand Sourcing Program
Keasbey, NJ (April 10, 2017) -- Wakefern Food Corp. will host a Store Brand Sourcing Program to meet with potential suppliers to find exciting new products on Thursday, May 17. The one day exclusive supplier program at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison, NJ will pair potential new vendors with respective Wakefern buyers and category managers in private, 20-minute meetings. ECRM (Efficient Collaborative Retail Marketing) will manage inbound product submissions from suppliers and facilitate all the meetings for Wakefern. The retailer-owned cooperative, comprised of 50 members who independently own and operate supermarkets under the ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, ... |
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Major New Expo Center Coming To Downtown Las Vegas As Part of World Market Center Las Vegas Expansion
LAS VEGAS (April 4, 2018) — International Market Centers (IMC), owners and operators of World Market Center Las Vegas, announced today a partnership with the City of Las Vegas to construct a new 350,000-square-foot Expo Center on the World Market Center Las Vegas campus, a five million-square-foot home furnishings and gift showroom campus at approximately 92% occupancy situated on nearly 60 acres in the heart of Las Vegas. The new Expo Center will provide state-of-the-art exhibition and meeting space in the downtown area for corporate and private events, meetings and tradeshows, as well as service the Las Vegas Market furniture, gift ... |
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The 2018 Winners of the Red Dot Award for Product Design are Announced
This year, companies and designers from 59 countries entered more than 6,300 innovations in the Red Dot Award: Product Design, a higher number than ever before. After inspiring and intensive discussions by the 39 jury members, they did not award a distinction until they had agreed on the good design quality of the product. As a result, a total of 69 entries – just 1.1% of all entries – received the top award in the competition, the Red Dot: Best of the Best. The “Red Dot”, which stands for good design quality, was awarded 1,684 times, while 45 objects won ... |
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Sold-Out 2018 International Home + Housewares Show Brims with Innovation, Vibrant Buzz on Show Floor
ROSEMONT, IL (March 19, 2018)—The just-concluded 2018 International Home + Housewares Show is garnering rave reviews from the industry with an overall sentiment that the quality of top-to-top buyer and seller attendees was the strongest in years. The Show was sold-out with 2,244 exhibitors from 53 countries and featured a focus on the smart home and connected products. “Even with the impact of the East Coast weather differential on Tuesday, we are very pleased with buyer attendance as 99 percent of the top 200 domestic retailers registered to attend, and international attendance was very close to last year’s record number,” ... |
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Roth Cheese Wins Five Awards at World Championship Cheese Contest
MADISON, Wis., March 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Roth Cheese took home five awards at the World Championship Cheese Contest held in Madison, Wisconsin last week. Coming in first in the Open Class: Pepper Flavored Cheeses category was Roth Chipotle Havarti. Roth's Dutch-inspired Havarti cheese is infused with jalapeno peppers and chipotle spices to make Chipotle Havarti with a spicy, smoky flavor. Roth's signature Grand Cru Reserve Alpine-style cheese and Roth Pavino, an exclusive cheese sold at Whole Foods, both took home second place medals. Roth GranQueso, a Spanish-inspired cheese, was awarded third place in the Latin American Style Hard Cheeses ... |
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In the Wake of Necco Layoffs, MyCustomCandy Announces Upgraded Candy Hearts Coming in 2019
TAMPA, Fla., March 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Florida custom candy company, MyCustomCandy announced today that it will be "Rebirthing" the classic candy hearts and is already in talks with major retailers to replace the soon-to-be extinct original candy hearts with new, high-quality candy hearts using an updated edible printing technology that will print crisp words and even simple images on the hearts. 117-year old candy company, Necco, makers of the iconic Valentine's Day candy hearts recently announced that they are in financial trouble and will lay off nearly 400 workers in May if they do not find a buyer. A sad end to the ... |
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SIAL China Responds to Fresh Food E-commerce Boom and New Retail Landscape
BEIJING, CHINA – Fresh food e-commerce is disrupting the retail landscape in China by making it easier for consumers to purchase fresh, healthy, and imported food products. According to iResearch, in 2017 the approximate Gross Market Value of China’s fresh food e-commerce market reached RMB 140 billion, a nearly 60-percent increase from 2016. Leading the change are e-commerce giants using their experience in online retail, logistics, and deep pockets to invest in 'new retail' business models, cold food chain, and the supply chain. New retail businesses, such as 7Fresh and HEMA, which are backed by JD.com and Alibaba, respectively, operate ... |
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Bodega Latina Corporation to Acquire Fiesta Mart to Create the Nation’s Largest Hispanic-Focused Grocer
PARAMOUNT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bodega Latina Corporation (“Bodega Latina”), doing business as “El Super”, a leading U.S. Hispanic grocer and a subsidiary of Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. DE C.V. (“Chedraui”), has agreed to acquire Fiesta Mart, L.L.C. (“Fiesta”). Fiesta, a portfolio company of ACON Investments, L.L.C., is a Texas-based international food retailer with an emphasis on the Hispanic segment operating 63 stores primarily in the Dallas and Houston areas. The combination of Bodega Latina and Fiesta creates one of the largest Hispanic-focused supermarket companies in the U.S., with a total of 122 stores across California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas and ... |
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New Online Farmers' Market Delivers Organic Groceries in Boston Area
BOSTON, March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- ClickToHarvest.com, the freshest grocery delivery service in Greater Boston, revealed new products in its catalog and plans for Spring harvests today. "We're excited for the first produce of the season!" Co-founder Dmitriy Peregudov said, "despite the cold, our farmers and producers have been working through winter to seed new plants, make cheeses and charcuterie, and one of them procured some of the best coffee beans in the world." Boston-area families can do their grocery shopping online easily and securely. They're guaranteed great foods from local artisanal farmers and small-batch producers; it is truly a farm ... |
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Esquirrou Named 2018 World Champion Cheese
MADISON, Wis., March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A hard sheep's milk cheese called Esquirrou, made in France at Mauleon Fromagerie by Michel Touyarou and imported by Savencia Cheese USA of New Holland, Pennsylvania has been named the 2018 World Champion Cheese. Earning an impressive score of 98.376 out of 100, Esquirrou (pronounced ehs-keer-oo) bested a record-breaking 3,402 entries in the 2018 contest. Esquirrou is crafted in the Pyrénées region of France, aged no less than 90 days, and features nutty notes and a toasted wheat aroma. First runner-up in the contest, with a score of 98.267, is Arzberger Ursteirer, a hard ... |
