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Chaos reigned at the judging for this year's SIAL d'Or awards when 26 of the world's finest business journalists, including yours truly, gathered in a plush Paris hotel to cast [...]

GRAND PRIZE Piggly Wiggly Washington Square, Sheboygan, Wis This 60,000 sf prototype used a circular layout, natural lighting from skylights, and varied fixture, floor, and wall materials to create an [...]

Dale Seiberling received The International Association of Food Industry Suppliers' Distinguished Service Award at this year's IAFIS 2002 Annual Conference in March. The award honors an individual who has worked [...]

To say that Stater Bros. was honored to be named a PROGRESSIVE GROCER 2001 Retailer of the Year would be an understatement. The Colton, Calif.-based chain wasted no time after [...]

RICHMOND, VA. -- National distributor POCAHONTAS FOODS USA honored distributors and suppliers at the company's 60th Merchandising & Business Conference in Denver recently. Pocahontas presented its Distributor of the Year [...]

In January Greg Mitchell, the president and CEO of Amarillo, Texas-based Toot'n Totum Food Stores, was one of 17 people to carry the torch through that West Texas town as [...]

The 2001 Maryland International Business Leadership Award was presented to Stephen Phillips, CEO of Baltimore-based Phillips Foods, for anticipating the domestic blue crab shortfall and sourcing imported swimming blue crab [...]

The women Grocers of America (WGA) has presented its 2002 Woman of the Year Award to Mary Anne Kowalski, co-owner, Kowalski Markets, Woodbury, MN. Kowalski received the award on Wednesday, [...]

STEPHEN STRANGE SR. OF Conway, president and chief executive officer of American Management Corp., won the Arkansas Business Executive of the Year award at the 2001 Arkansas Business of the [...]

Few of us care when an ad is pretentious about post-postmodern art or undubbed foreign films or haute couture. In such specialized areas, we're willing to cut the would-he experts [...]

WATSONVILLE, CALIF. -- Ben E. Keith Foods, the foodservice distributor based in Fort Worth, Texas, presented Driscoll Strawberry Associates Inc. with its Produce Supplier of the Year Award. Randy Benko, [...]

The Food Marketing Institute honored two prominent industry figures at its Midwinter Executive Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Supervalu chairman Mike Wright received the 2002 Sidney R. Rabb Award, which recognizes [...]

Syracuse, N.Y. independent Green Hills Farms was recently given a 1 to 1 Innovator Award by the Peppers and Rogers Group for its outstanding customer-driven solutions. Since 1993 the company [...]

The Tillamook County Creamery Association, Tillamook, Ore., has named El Tapatio Markets Inc. as its 2001 Latino Grocer of the Year. The award recognizes the independent retailer's innovation and growth [...]

LEMARS, IOWA -- Houston-based distribution giant Sysco Corp. chose Wells' Dairy Inc. as one of its Top 100 Suppliers. This marks the sixth year in a row that Wells has [...]

DALLAS -- Ben E. Keith Foods recently presented its first DSR of the Decade Award to Michael Hirsch at the company's 2001 Sales Recognition Banquet. Hirsch, center, was honored for [...]

Costcutter's Annual Supplier Awards in York on Monday evening followed the usual format -- get, the awards out the way first, then the serious business of tucking into some good [...]

The FWD's Gold Medal awards were also presented at the annual dinner. Alan Brett-Pitt of Booker and Grant Scrimgeour of Martex were named young wholesalers of the year. Kevin Wilson [...]

Dorian Recordings of Troy has won the 2001 Global Business Network Excellence in Export Award in the category of Unique Export The award recognizes the finest exporters and trade organizations [...]

Booker has begun to seek out winners of its Booker Prize for Excellence 2002 awards. There will be 13 retail and catering category winners, plus overall best retailer and best [...]

Hexham Farmers' Market and Hollow Trees Farm Shop in Semer, near Ipswich, have been judged the country's best purveyors of locally sourced food and drink in a competition run by [...]

The Wisconsin Restaurant Association has announced the winners of its 2001 Salute to Excellence. From the local area,. Greg Abbate, executive chef at Brynwood Country Club in Milwaukee, was recognized [...]

Sysco, North America's largest foodservice distributor, honored seven seafood companies at its annual Supplier Recognition Awards Ceremony in Houston on Oct. 25. Ore-Cal Corp. and Trident Seafoods, both of Seattle, [...]

Nobody Doesn't Like... John H. Bryan, Jr. John H. Bryan, Jr. usually credits nepotism with putting him on the road to success, but he's actually spent most of his life [...]

NEW YORK -- Wild Oats Markets picked up an Edison Best New Product Award for its private-label program. Presented by the Chicago-based American Marketing Association, the Edison Awards recognized new [...]

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- Dan Farmer, executive vice president of sales and marketing for Reiter Dairy's northern and southern divisions, based here, was presented with the Charles T. Barnum award at [...]

MINNEAPOLIS -- Mustang Foods here has given Advantage Sales and Marketing, Portland, Ore., its National Broker of the Year award. Mustang Foods, founded in 1996, is a part of Schwan's [...]

RICHMOND, VA. -- Pocahontas Foods USA, a network of foodservice distributors, garnered the Best of Show' award for the second consecutive year at the International Foodservice Distributor Association's 1998 Value-Ad [...]

LAS VEGAS -- In its second year of business, Fresh Picks, Richmond, Va., a racker of supermarket music programs, won its second consecutive Wholesaler of the Year Award from the [...]

One of the UK's leading manufacturers of ethnic foods has scooped the top prize -- and a cheque for 10,000 [pounds sterling] -- in this year's Food from Britain Export [...]

CHICAGO -- The Private Label Manufacturers Association recognized four companies for outstanding achievements in marketing store brands at its annual awards dinner held here last month. Salute to Excellence awards [...]

The Kroger Company, the nation's largest supermarket and pharmacy chain, is this year's food and drug store combination winner. Its dedication to setting itself apart from competitors by focusing on [...]

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (FNS) -- Genuardi Family Markets based here was recently awarded the 'Big O' award by the Organic Trade Association in Greenfield, Mass., for its storewide promotion of organics. [...]

Giant Food, Landover, Md., and Wegmans Food Markets, Rochester, N.Y., earned the Hunger's Hope Award for Grocery Distributor of the Year by the Second Har- vest National Food Bank Network, [...]

NORFOLK, Va. -- Farm Fresh's efforts to promote local produce earned the company an award from the Virginia Department of Agriculture for making significant contributions to the state's agriculture. The [...]

A Brandon, FL, Winn-Dixie store, the Spartan Stores cooperative, and Harmons are among the winner of Golden Penguin awards for their promotional efforts during 1996's National Frozen Food Month. The Winn-Dixie unit and Tampa, FL, broker Dulin Inc share a Golden Penguin for their winter wonderland display, which included life-size polar bears, suspended icicles, and lighted birch trees., Best Retail Display Brandon, Fla. - A Winn-Dixie unit here and a local broker share the Golden Penguin for Best Retail Display in recognition of their combined National Frozen Food [...]

The Institute of Grocery Distribution's (IGD) Food Industry Awards in October 1996 will include the first Social Commitment Award, sponsored by Nestle. It aims to encourage firms to consider their obligations to society. The award is open to companies working in or alongside the grocery industry and projects could include responsible trading with the third world, local charity or school support or provision for minority groups.

LAKE TAHOE, Nev. -- Wholesalers are getting fresh in their advertising campaigns these days -- and are reaping rewards for their efforts. Fresh departments and products figured prominently among the [...]

Speaking at the fifth yearly Booker Prize for Excellence awards dinner, UK agriculture minister Douglas Hogg told independent grocers that they offered customers a valuable personal service not available from supermarkets. He told guests that the government would continue to support village shops and small businesses and that the retailers' attending the dinner were excellent examples of their profession., Booker's fifth awards dinner was a glittering occasion. The Grocer was there The independent sector received a pat on the back from Minister of Agriculture Douglas Hogg when he spoke [...]

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Thirty-four companies have been selected by the National Frozen Food Association here to receive Golden Penguin awards for their participation in this year's National Frozen Food Month [...]

In sports, there's nothing tougher than repeating as a champion. By that measure, Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s accomplishment in winning the fourth annual Retail Innovation Technology Award (RITA) is truly [...]