Grand Food Center

Runner-Up: Grand Food Center, Winnetka, Ill.,  Designer: Mehmert Store Services 

The new concept store replaces an existing unit, adds more choices, energy efficiencies.

NEW YORK -- Asian Food Markets, Inc. has signed a 25,128-square-foot lease at the West Shore Plaza in Staten Island, N.Y., according to real estate firm Robert K. Futterman & Associates (RFK). The Asian foods retailer will open its sixth store at the 256,000-square-foot shopping center in May 2006.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich -- Spartan Stores, Inc. has entered into a supply agreement with Detroit-based Sherwood Food Distributors, the nation's largest independent meat distributor. Sherwood serves almost half of the United States from distribution centers in Detroit, Cleveland, and Cincinnati.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - As part of its ongoing cost reduction efforts, Spartan Stores, Inc. on Friday announced that it has eliminated approximately 70 administrative staff positions at its office in Grand Rapids, Mich.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Grand Rapids, Mich.-based distributor and retailer Spartan Stores, Inc. on Wednesday said net sales increased 2.3 percent to $502.0 million in its fiscal first quarter ending June 21, 2003, compared with the same period last year.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Spartan Stores Inc. on Monday announced organizational changes under the direction of its new president and CEO Craig C. Sturken.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Midwest retailer and distributor Spartan Stores Inc. on Monday announced the appointment of Craig C. Sturken, a former CEO of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company's Midwest and Atlantic regions, as president and CEO effective today.