Market Trends

Spartan Stores, Inc. has reached an agreement with the Teamsters Local 337 related to the retailer’s decision to move its Plymouth, Mich., dry grocery operations to its Grand Rapids, Mich., facility.

As football fans across America ready themselves for game day on Feb. 7, Ruiz Foods, Inc. will roll out a full-page FSI brand-awareness promotion targeting Super Bowl XLIV.

Safeway, Inc. plans to join forces with FishWise — a nonprofit organization focused on improving the sustainability and financial performance of seafood retailers, distributors, and producers — to develop and implement a more comprehensive sustainable seafood policy.

Samuel Randolph “Randy” Roberts, the former director of government relations at Publix, was honored posthumously by the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) with the Glen P. Woodard, Jr., Public Affairs Award, in recognition of Roberts’ leadership in helping the supermarket industry address important government issues.

HEB this past weekend made several changes to its senior leadership team, including the promotion of Craig Boyan to president and COO.

Jeffrey Noddle, the retiring executive chairman of Minneapolis-based Supervalu, Inc., has received the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Sidney R. Rabb Award for his exceptional service to the community, and involvement in and strong advocacy on behalf of the supermarket industry, and Gary Phillips, retired president and CEO officer of Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc. (AWG) in Kansas City, Kan., has garnered the FMI Herbert Hoover Award for his personal and professional excellence in serving the food retail and wholesale industry.

United Natural Foods, Inc.’s (UNFI) Chesterfield, N.H. distribution center has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR rating for its superior energy efficiency and environmental protection.

Nearly one in three adults — 72 million adult consumers — call themselves “Convenience Consumers,” but their definitions of convenience vary depending on their life stage and other characteristics, according to a new report by the NPD Group.