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  • FoodMaxx Launches Web-based Trade Promotion Management System
    TURLOCK, Calif. -- Regional warehouse supermarket chain FoodMaxx yesterday launched a Web-based platform for online trade promotion allowance management that it said should allow it to collaborate more effectively with its suppliers.

  • Grocery Workers in Ohio Reach Tentative Deal
    CANTON, Ohio -- Unionized grocery store workers here will vote over the next two weeks on a tentative contract with the owners of five grocery store chains doing business in Northeast Ohio.

  • Bozzuto Names Presto Products Store Brands Supplier of the Year
    CHESHIRE, Conn. -- Bozzuto, Inc., a wholesale distributor of food and household products here, has presented Presto Products, a division of Appleton, Wis.-based Alcoa, its Store Brands Supplier of the Year Award.

  • GMA Hires New Director for State Legislature and Regulatory Initiatives
    WASHINGTON -- The Grocery Manufacturers Association said yesterday that Caroline Silveira would join its staff as the trade group's new director of state affairs for the western region of the United States. Based in Sacramento, Silveira will start May 8.

  • Wild Oats Names Kettle Cuisine 2005 Foodservice Vendor of the Year
    BOULDER, Colo. -- Wild Oats here recently named Kettle Cuisine, Inc. as its "2005 Foodservice Vendor of the Year" award.

  • FTC, HHS Report Commends Industry Actions on Obesity, Wants More
    WASHINGTON -- The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services yesterday released a report recommending concrete steps that industry can take to change their marketing and other practices to make progress against childhood obesity. The Grocery Manufacturers of America praised the guidelines, but noted that many food companies are already taking steps in the right direction.

  • Sun Pacific Names New Marketing VP
    Los Angeles, Calif. -- Tristan Kieva has joined Sun Pacific here -- as its new v.p. of marketing. Having worked for a retailer, wholesaler, manufacturer and now a grower/shipper, Kieva's career in produce marketing spans 16 years of working within all different aspects of the produce business.

  • Wegmans Rolls Out Own-brand Organic Milk
    ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. here introduced its own brand of organic milk late last month, making it one of the first retailers in the United States to offer shoppers pasteurized fresh organic milk under its own label.

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