By: Rick Stein, Vice President, Fresh, Industry Relations, Food Marketing Institute Serve up a pie at a gathering of family and friends, and you can see pretty quickly how tastes differ. Someone takes a big wedge, while another person asks for “just a …
FMI’s Kudzu Share Group was in Parma, Italy, this week experiencing some international culinary flare, doing store tours, and attending the Cibus Connect Expo. Here are some photos from their trip: Visit by FMI’s Kudzu Share Group to the Parmigiano …
By: Andy Harig, Senior Director, Tax, Trade & Sustainability, Food Marketing Institute Government buildings typically are not known for their splendor; but sometimes what goes on in their halls can be truly grand. On Tuesday, the Washington …
By: Rebecca Daniels, Assistant, Education, Food Marketing Institute The responsibilities of store managers are shifting just as rapidly as the food retail industry itself. No longer are these incredibly hardworking individuals just responsible for running …
By: Steve Markenson, Director of Research, Food Marketing Institute The first ever The Food Retailing Industry Speaks (Speaks) report appeared in 1949. Seventy years later, this report continues to provide the food retail industry with important benchmarks …
By: Allison Febrey, Assistant, Health & Wellness/FMI Foundation/Food & Product Safety, Food Marketing Institute For National Family Meals Month™ (NFMM), three-time Gold Plate Award winner Skogen’s Festival Foods took on the challenge that parents …
Last week the FMI Foundation attended the House Conference District Director Fly-in, where local district directors gathers on Capitol Hill to hear about national initiatives they can take back to their hometowns. The FMI Foundation discussed National …
By David Fikes, Vice President, Communications and Consumer/Community Affairs, Food Marketing Institute Navigating an interpersonal relationship is a tricky thing. In the beginning, it is a dance of knowing when, what and how to share information so that …
By: Hannah Walker, Senior Director, Nutrition & Technology Policy, Food Marketing Institute It is hard to believe, but October 2019 will mark four years since the card brand-imposed liability shift went into effect, requiring retailers to invest …
By: Peter Matz, Director, Nutrition & Food Policy, Food Marketing Institute In May 2018, the Trump Administration released American Patients First, a comprehensive blueprint to reduce prescription drug prices and out-of-pocket costs at the pharmacy …
By David Fikes, Vice President, Communications and Consumer/Community Affairs, Food Marketing Institute I am from the south, which means I grew up thinking that a normal part of any introduction to a new person included questions like “where are you from” …
Dagmar Farr, chief member relations officer and senior vice president for membership and education and Lucas Darnell, director of member relations and advocacy for Eastern U.S. attended the AWG Innovation Showcase in Overland Park, Kansas, this week. While …
By: Rick Stein, Vice President, Fresh, Industry Relations, Food Marketing Institute At the recent Annual Meat Conference in Dallas, a roomful of attendees were baffled by what sounded like a simple question: “How often do you interact with artificial …
By: Allison Febrey, Assistant, Health & Wellness/FMI Foundation/Food & Product Safety, Food Marketing Institute Every September, National Family Meals Month™ is celebrated throughout the US, and in the upper Midwest of America, many families also …
By: Rick Stein, Vice President, Fresh, Industry Relations, Food Marketing Institute As plant-based diets become more popular, is it time for grocers to have friendly plant-based “butchers” onsite? Or deploy produce department employees as produce mongers, …
By Julie Pryor, Director, Emerging Brands, Food Marketing Institute The energy was palpable at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim earlier this month. There was truly a community feel throughout the event. See all the Expo West photos I took here! The …
By: Sarah Malenich, Director, Sales & Marketing, Safe Quality Food Institute Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) is excited to announce that in partnership with the National Restaurant Association, the two organizations will develop the SQF Food Safety …
By: Rick Stein, Vice President, Fresh, Industry Relations, Food Marketing Institute The ocean floor stretches miles below the sea’s surface, leaving a world of mystery to the human eye. In a similar way, the seafood category is distinct, intriguing and not …
By: Adam Friedlander, Specialist, Food Safety and Technical Services The food retail community works hard to train and demonstrate proper food safety practices within our stores to customers. We wear hair nets, we properly wash our hands, we use a food …
By: Leslie G. Sarasin, President and CEO, Food Marketing Institute Remember the days when having a competitor moving in across the street was an indicator of a hot market? Now, competitors are across the street, around the corner and also in the ether; …
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