Month: August 2015

icix (www.icix.com), a supply chain risk management company, announced today that it has partnered with Wakefern Food Corp. to expand the company’s Food Safety and Compliance program. Wakefern, the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the United States, selected the icix Product Specification solution to collaborate with food manufacturers and manage private label data requirements. …

What’s for dinner tonight? Locally based artizone, the only online shop for farm-raised meat, local produce and small batch artisan products in Dallas, Chicago, and Denver, has last-minute groceries covered with its new artizone Express delivery service launching exclusively in the Dallas-area market.  artizone Express orders placed by 1 p.m. are guaranteed for same-day service  throughout artizone’s extensive delivery area covering 100 zip codes across North Texas. …

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFM) today announced that, effective August 6, 2015, as part of the company’s established leadership succession plan, Doug Sanders, the company’s current president and chief executive officer and member of the board of directors, has been appointed executive chairman of the board. Amin Maredia, chief financial officer, will ascend to the position of chief executive officer, and Jim Nielsen, chief operating officer, will assume the position of president and chief operating officer. …

Organic food delivery startup Good Eggs just announced that it will be closing its operations in Los Angeles, New York City and New Orleans — every city where it has a presence, except for San Francisco. …

Baldor Specialty Foods has amended its lease with the city at the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center to expand its foothold by 100,000 square feet, the New York City Economic Development Corporation announced. …