In celebration of National Ice Cream Sandwich Day, New England-based Hood Ice Cream donated their popular Ice Cream Sandwiches as a gesture of thanks to healthcare workers at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Kenneth E. McMullen, CEO of Weigel’s passed away Thursday, July 29, 2021 unexpectedly. Under McMullen's leadership, Weigel’s added 49 convenience stores and its own bakery. His tenure and legacy at Weigel’s lasted 40 tremendous years and the chain now has 70 stores.
With distribution and demand growing to all-time highs for its premium pizza products, Jane’s Dough Foods will now be known as Jane’s Dough Premium Foods effective immediately as the company unveiled a new logo and a complete website redesign to coincide with the name change.
Belcampo Farms has released three new subscription boxes, available exclusively online at Belcampo's website: Everyday Beef Box, Everyday Chicken Box and Meal Prep Box, all filled with the brand’s most popular Certified Organic, Certified Humane, grass-fed and pasture raised meats. Belcampo subscriptions eliminate last-minute trips to the store and keep your favorite healthy and delicious weekly protein staples on-hand – with convenient, automatic delivery.
Manna Tree has announced it is leading a $18mm Series D funding round for the disruptive platform Urban Remedy, the omni-channel, ultra-fresh provider chilled ready-to-eat meals, snacks, cold-pressed juices, and more. Through a proprietary ERP system, Urban Remedy cracked the code on profitable ultra fresh food (i.e. shelf life of one week, often less).
Walmart officially becomes the latest retailer to carry Zatarain’s Smoked Sausage and will stock both the Andouille and Cajun Style flavors in 1,135 of their stores across the country. The supermarket giant joins the ranks of Kroger, Sam’s Club, Food Lion, Meijer and a slew of independent retailers to stock the popular smoked sausage in store.
Sysco announced an exclusive partnership that will deliver SAVRpak’s patented food preservation technology to independent and local chain restaurants nationwide. Through their agreement, Sysco will add SAVRpak “freshness packs” to its Cutting Edge Solutions platform, making this technology immediately available to order. Developed by an aerospace engineer, SAVRpak is a frozen, peel-and-stick patch that removes moisture from the air of a food container, thereby keeping it away from the meal and ensuring hot and cold food stays fresh and crisp in transit.
ShopRite has debuted a new line of fresh chicken cuts under its Bowl & Basket in-store private label, using high-quality poultry and budget-friendly prices.
Michigan-based foodservice management company Creative Dining Services (CDS) has promoted Susan Golder to VP of marketing and business development, and Jane Newton to associate VP of people services, both effective July 1. Golder was previously director of marketing at CDS, while Newton was director of people services.
Whole Foods Market has expanded its refrigerated distribution center in Cheshire, Connecticut, to support the significant growth of their store development program throughout the North Atlantic and Northeast Regions. As more consumers turned to online grocery shopping, the demand for cold storage space skyrocketed, and the business case for Whole Foods to grow this facility became even more essential.
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