Month: June 2011

Franz Doubles The Size Of Its Nampa, Idaho Bakery

June 22, 2011 Franz Bakery

Franz Bakery, the largest independent, family-owned bakery on the West Coast, is doubling the size of its Nampa, Idaho bakery. Franz purchased the Harvest Classic Bakery in Nampa in August 2010. Since the purchase, Franz has added a retail outlet store on site and is adding 25,000 square feet of additional space, for a total of 50,000 square feet. The bakery expansion, built by Benchmark Construction, is slated for completion later this summer. There are currently 28 employees at the Nampa bakery. …

Cargill Offering Certified Sustainable Palm Oil To N. American Food Manufacturers

June 22, 2011 Cargill

Cargill announced today at the 2011 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Food Expo that it is now offering palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) to North American food manufacturers. …

Food Lion Still Number 1 In Richmond

June 22, 2011 Louis Llovio, Richmond Times Dispatch

Food Lion held off its rivals in the highly competitive Richmond grocery market to rank first in sales for the third consecutive year, despite seeing its percentage of sales fall. Meanwhile, Kroger increased its share, and Martin's Food Markets' results dropped slightly. …

Egg-Cooking Company Plans $4 Million Expansion

June 22, 2011 Staff Reporter, The Associated Press

A southern Indiana company that cooks hard-boiled eggs for restaurants, hospitals, universities and food manufacturers says its proposed $4 million expansion would allow it to become the world's top hard-boiled egg producer, turning out more than 1 million of the eggs a day. …

Nielsen Forms Key Alliance With MyWebGrocer

June 22, 2011 MyWebGrocer

Nielsen, the leading global provider of information and analytics around what consumers watch and buy, has entered into a strategic alliance with MyWebGrocer, the leading provider of digital grocery tools and the largest grocery media network, to measure U.S. online supermarket sales. The agreement enables Nielsen to provide consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies with the industry’s first comprehensive view into consumers’ online supermarket purchases and cements Nielsen’s footprint in digital shopping analytics. …