Showcasing the creativity and skills of an in-store bakery staff with an everyday product, artisan and specialty breads have become an important component of many supermarket bakery departments. They may not grab shoppers' attention like cakes, or...
Jungle Jim's International Market has launched a new wholesale produce department to offer businesses in the area a new produce wholesale distributor. Since the new stadiums were built downtown, many of the wholesale produce businesses were...
MADISON, Wis. The International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association has chosen three finalists from a record number of entrants this year to compete in its 15th Annual Cake Decorating Challenge. The three finalists Tina Loftus, Town & Country Market...
Enhancements to dairy departments in new or remodeled supermarkets could generate incremental volume of 14,000 to 28,000 dairy units annually per store, according to research compiled by Dairy Management Inc., the Dannon Co. and Kraft Foods. Since...
Valentine's Day is big at Marketplace Food & Drug here. So is the company's signature, heart-shaped truffle cake. Each year, sales have grown to the point that this year, cake department manager Nyla Stromberg told SN she expected to easily sell...
Hannaford Supermarkets here has become the first major retailer to implement the Keep Local Farms initiative at its stores. Launched in September 2009 by a coalition of New England-area dairy cooperatives and promotion councils, Keep Local Farms...
Food price inflation will return in 2010, led by an increase in milk, beef, pork and chicken prices, according to Michael Swanson, a senior economist at Wells Fargo, in a report for Bloomberg NewsWire. Swanson predicts that food prices could rise...
For many U.S. consumers, declining food prices have been one bright spot in the current economy. Although 2009 has been a very difficult year for many homes and businesses, it is no small consolation that the economy did not enter the period of...
Giant Eagle's senior director of deli, Voni Woods, has been elected treasurer of Madison, Wis.-based International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association, beginning her first term on the IDDBA executive committee. Once elected to the executive committee...