Meijer, Inc.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The ongoing campaign of Second Harvest Gleaners Food Bank to replace its aging fleet of trucks got a significant boost from Meijer Inc., which donated four of its vehicles to the organization earlier this month.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Wal-Mart and Safeway are the newest companies to join the new Fruits & Veggies -- More Matters license agreement initiative launched by the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) here. All told, 33 retail companies representing approximately 20,000 individual retail stores across the nation have signed on with the More Matters campaign.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Wal-Mart and Safeway are the newest companies to join the new Fruits & Veggies -- More Matters license agreement initiative launched by the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) here. All told, 33 retail companies representing approximately 20,000 individual retail stores across the nation have signed on with the More Matters campaign.

GRAND RAPIDS -- Fred Meijer, chairman emeritus of Meijer, Inc. and an honorary trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation, served as one of 13 honorary pallbearers at the late president's burial, which took place here yesterday.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - One Michigan legend honored the memory of another yesterday, as Fred Meijer, chairman emeritus Meijer, Inc. here, spoke publicly of President Gerald R. Ford, who died at 93 on the day after Christmas, as "one of the finest men we ever knew."

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer Inc. here inked a sponsorship deal with Andretti Green Racing -- which bills itself as the winningest team in Indy Racing League history -- for the 2007 Indy Racing League IndyCar Series season.

Christmas at Meijer is a study in mass retailing done right.

The Meijers gave birth to the supercenter -- but the family's more impressive issue is the closely guarded, consumer-centric culture of integrity and excellence it nurtures every day.