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  • George Gellert
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: George Gellert, Atalanta Corporation

    George Gellert has spent nearly six decades working in specialty foods, building one of the largest, most diverse companies in the industry.
  • Hooper and Reese
    Awards By: Mark Hamstra April 28, 2024

    2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: Allison Hooper and Bob Reese Vermont Creamery

    When Allison Hooper and Bob Reese began working together in 1984, there were only a handful of goat cheese producers in the entire country.
  • Paula Lambert
    Awards By: George Hajjar April 28, 2024

    2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Paula Lambert, Mozzarella Company

    Even as a young person, industry veteran Paula Lambert was interested in cheese.
  • HEB distribution campus

    H-E-B Plans Distribution Campus

  • milk in a glass
    Industry Operations April 26, 2024

    20 Percent of Milk Samples Contain Traces of Bird Flu

    About one in five retail samples of milk tested by the FDA contain bird flu virus fragments, it reported Thursday, with a greater proportion coming from milk in areas with infected dairy cow herds.
  • various snacks
    Industry Operations By: Mark Hamstra April 26, 2024

    Consumers Balance Nutrition, Indulgence in Snack Behaviors: Report

    Opportunities for innovation in the snacking category remain wide open as consumers continue to nosh throughout the day.
  • vegan burger

    Vegan Fast Food on the Rise

    The vegan fast food market is expected to be valued at $18.9 billion in 2024 and grow to $28.2 billion by 2034, according to Future Market Insights.
  • mompreneurs
    Industry Operations April 26, 2024

    French Broad Chocolate Flavors Inspired By Local ‘Mompreneurs’

    French Broad Chocolate is offering a new collection of bonbons celebrating mom-founded businesses.
  • PineMelon courier delivering groceries
    Industry Operations By: George Hajjar April 26, 2024

    PineMelon Founder Talks Expansion

    An online grocery delivery service that works with local vendors to bring the farmer’s market to the ecommerce channel, PineMelon recently expanded into the Boulder, Colorado market.
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  • Walgreens and doordash art

    Walgreens, DoorDash Team on SNAP/EBT

    Walgreens and DoorDash are collaborating to offer SNAP/EBT payment at about 7,800 Walgreens stores across the country.
  • Pullman Market exterior

    Texas Restaurant Operator Opens Specialty Food Market

  • cafeteria salad bar
    Industry Operations April 25, 2024

    School Meals to Limit Added Sugar, Sodium

    Nutrition standards for school meals will be gradually updated to include less sugar and greater flexibility with menu planning between Fall 2025 and Fall 2027.
  • Foxtrot inside

    Lawsuit Filed Against Outfox Hospitality

    A class-action lawsuit and a complaint to the city of Chicago have been filed as a result of the closures of all Foxtrot and Dom’s Kitchen & Market stores, Tuesday, reports Block Club Chicago.
  • Stew's Clifton

    Stew Leonard's Readies Store for May Opening

    Family-owned and operated Stew Leonard’s Farm Fresh Food and Wine will open its Clifton, New Jersey location on May 17.
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    Report: Online Grocery Sales to Grow 3x Faster Than In-Store Sales

    Overall grocery sales in the U.S. are forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 1.6 percent through 2028, compared to the 5.6 percent posted over the five years ending in 2023.