Month: September 2017

Four West Virginia Foodland stores have recently made the franchise switch to Piggly Wiggly, the most recent being the “Bigley Piggly Wiggly” at 10 Spring St., near Bigley Avenue, in Charleston. …

Food Marketing Institute (FMI) today announces the appointment of Steven Markenson, PRC, to lead its research efforts. Markenson is a market research executive with a progressive track record of conducting quantitative and qualitative market research in a range of industries for many respected, well-known clients through his tenures at Opinion Research Corporation, Snyder Communications and WBA Research. …

The supermarket and grocery business is likely to suffer strong headwinds in the future, due to long-term shifts in consumer behavior. Although many people don’t realize it yet, grocery shopping and cooking are in a long-term decline. They are shifting from a mass category, based on a daily activity, to a niche activity that a few people do only some of the time. …

C.A. Fortune announces that Laura Howell has been named vice president of client development and will work in the Chicago corporate office. Howell has 11 years’ experience in the consumer products industry since joining Acosta Sales and Marketing directly out of college and climbing through the ranks to vice president. …

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the availability of an online food safety training module for carriers engaged in the transportation of food by rail or motor vehicle in the United States. FDA is offering this training free of charge to help carriers meet the requirements of the FDA’s Sanitary Transportation of Human and Animal Food Rule (Sanitary Transportation Rule). …