Consultant

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Tom Jackson, president and c.e.o. of the Ohio Grocers Association here, was recently honored with the Publisher's Award for Lifetime Achievement by Tri-State Food News, a regional trade newspaper covering Western Pa., West Virginia and Ohio.

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. - International marketing services company SPAR Group, Inc. here has tapped C. Manly Molpus, outgoing president, c.e.o., and a director of the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), to join its board of directors. Molpus 16-year veteran of GMA, has said he will retire from the Washington, D.C.-based association at the end of this year.

BOSTON -- A study of the Massachusetts Wine at Food Stores Initiative has found that allowing grocery stores to sell wine would save wine shoppers in the state an estimated $26 million to $36 million per year. The initiative is slated for a vote in November.

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. - Retail buyers need to be better prepared for meetings with vendors, according to a new study by consultancy MOHR Access here. Buyers not only often enter into negotiations without clarifying their objectives, the study found, but also become distracted by secondary issues.

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. - Retail buyers need to be better prepared for meetings with vendors, according to a new study by consultancy MOHR Access here. Buyers not only often enter into negotiations without clarifying their objectives, the study found, but also become distracted by secondary issues.

AMBLER, Pa. -- Jerome "Jerry" Shupak, an independent sales and marketing consultant to startup and expanding food companies since 1984, died Aug. 10 after a brief battle battle with cancer. Shupak had over 40 years of experience with a wide range of food industry products.

CHICAGO -- Growth rates for six retail formats -- including supermarkets -- aren't expected to keep pace with inflation for the remainder of this decade, consulting group Willard Bishop here revealed during "The Future of Food Retailing" Webinar sponsored by The Food Institute.

AMBLER, Pa. -- Jerome "Jerry" Shupak, an independent sales and marketing consultant to startup and expanding food companies since 1984, died Aug. 10 after a brief battle battle with cancer. Shupak had over 40 years of experience with a wide range of food industry products.