Governor Rick Scott has announced Publix Super Markets plans to create a one-million-square-foot distribution center in Orlando with a $188.5 million capital investment. Plans also call for staffing 156 new jobs during the center’s first three years of operation. …
Whole Foods Market will be casting a net in March for Iowa vendors. The Texas-based grocery chain, which will open a store this summer in West Des Moines, has scheduled a March 27 vendor fair at Springhill Suites, 1236 Jordan Creek Parkway, West Des Moines.
Safeway Inc. officially announced Brian Baer as President of its Chicago-area Dominick's Finer Foods division. …
The National Restaurant Association today announced that Liz Garner has joined the policy and government affairs team as Director of Commerce and Entrepreneurship. In this position, she will help advance the Association’s tax and profitability priorities, working with member companies, policymakers, and other stakeholders as an advocate for the restaurant industry, the nation’s second-largest private sector employer with nearly 13 million workers nationwide. …
U.S. restaurant industry visits declined from 62.7 billion in 2008 to 60.6 billion in 2011 and independent restaurants accounted for 87 percent (2 billion) of these traffic losses, according to The NPD Group, a leading market research company. Independent restaurants, 7,000+ of which have closed since 2008, have steadily lost traffic share to the major restaurant chains, whose unit growth has only offset half of independent unit losses, according to NPD’s ongoing foodservice market research. …
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