Month: August 2024

Scandit Acquires MarketLab to Boost Retail Shelf Intelligence Capabilities 

August 21, 2024 Scandit

Delivering increased workforce efficiency and automating time-intensive store operations processes, the new hybrid solution will enable retailers to gain insights into on-shelf availability, planogram compliance, pricing issues, and more to maintain optimal store conditions, maximize sales, and reduce lost revenues due to stockouts, particularly in high-SKU volume environments like grocery stores. It will also provide AI-enabled notifications to improve store key performance indicators and flag issues in near-real time to store associates and management.  …

The GIANT Company Announces Leadership Appointment

August 21, 2024 The GIANT Company

The GIANT Company announced that it has named Rebecca Lupfer senior vice president and chief merchant. In her new role, Lupfer will lead all aspects of merchandising for the company as well as commercial planning and pricing, reporting directly to The GIANT Company’s president, John Ruane. The appointment is effective immediately.  …

KM Packaging Adds Martin Penney to its Customer Operations Team

August 21, 2024 KM Packaging

With extensive experience in customer service and operations management, Martin brings a wealth of knowledge and a passion for excellence that aligns with KM’s commitment to delivering reliable and innovative packaging solutions to its global customer base. …

QualiTech Acquires Ellison Bakery, an Inclusion Ingredients and Baked Goods Manufacturer

August 21, 2024 Ellison Bakery

Headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Ellison provides a wide range of bakery products and solutions including mix-ins, frozen novelty components, and snack inclusions to a diverse mix of blue-chip customers and established and emerging brands. The acquisition of Ellison advances QualiTech’s plans to strategically expand the platform’s capabilities with synergistic products and ingredient solutions and drive future growth following MidOcean Partners’ investment in the company in 2023. …

Bread Dough and its Place in the Rise of Civilization

August 21, 2024 The Open Wild Wheat Consortium (OWWC)

A remarkable new study has provided compelling evidence as to how it was made possible, revealing the secret that made bread wheat one of the most successful crops on the planet while many others have disappeared or remained in local obscurity. …