Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

Dairy Mart Convenience Stores, Inc. said today that it and substantially all of its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for protection under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. During the chapter 11 process, Dairy Mart and its stores will continue to operate normally.

C. Manly Moplus, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, was appointed on Monday to the United States Department of Agriculture and the Office of the United States Trade Representative's Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee for Trade (APAC).

In the wake of the terrorist attacks on September 11, the member companies of the Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA) continue efforts to provide major financial contributions as well as truckloads of food, beverages and other essential needs for the victims of this tragedy.

Nash Finch Company (Nasdaq: NAFC - news), a Minneapolis-based food retailer and distributor, today announced the company has gained the business of several market-leading customers representing $70 million in sales on an annual basis.

SeeBeyond, a global provider of eBI solutions, on Monday announced that Supermarches Match chose SeeBeyond to provide its real-time supply chain integration platform.

Just about everybody thinks IT ought to merit major investment but many fewer CPG exec believe their companies are putting their money where their mouth is, according to a research report issued yesterday by the Grocery Manufacturers Association.

Seafood and other specialty foods that are flown in fresh daily could be in short supply, and more expensive, as the result of canceled airline flights across the country.

The new Food FleetXchange transportation Internet portal launched by Food Distributors International (FDI) and the National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) Aug. 1 is already expanding and adding new services, members of the two food industry associations were told on Sunday during the Midyear Executive Conference.