Justin Erickson and Ryan Peters of Harbor Wholesale Foods, Lacey, WA, will lead a special AWMA-sponsored session on foodservice opportunities for distributors at the 2012 Distribution Solutions Conference (DSC) October 29-31 in Las Vegas, NV.
That session, entitled Jump on the Fresh...
The 2012 AWMA Summit & Business Exchange (ABX) opened yesterday with record breaking attendance of some 465 distributors and suppliers meeting in beautiful Amelia Island, FL, for a round of insightful educational programming and the opening of more than two full days of ABX business...
AWMA's Scott Ramminger and Anne Holloway recently attended a Federation of Tax Administrators (FTA) meeting in Hartford, CT to discuss issues related to the ongoing concerns with PACT Act reporting and stamping.
As a result of AWMA's involvement in FTA efforts to create a PACT...
It is with great pleasure that AWMA and the Distributors Education Foundation (DEF) congratulate Connor Nystrom, one of two winners of the 2012 Ray Foley Memorial Scholarship. Connor will each receive $5,000 to help pay his college expenses for the coming year.
Conner is...
It is with great pleasure that AWMA and the Distributors Education Foundation (DEF) congratulate Jessica Finkle, one of two winners of the 2012 Ray Foley Memorial Scholarship. Jessica will each receive $5,000 to help pay her college expenses for the coming year.
Jessica, an...
As convenience retailers look to a future with smaller stores and a rapidly changing consumer, challenges and opportunities abound, said Renee Sang, senior director, Global Customer Innovation Network, Accenture, in the Outlook Forum's opening session yesterday morning.
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More than 100 distributors, retailers and manufacturers received a first-hand look at the most up-to-date, comprehensive sales data for the convenience industry in four key categories as well as insight into major trends affecting their businesses during the inaugural AWMA C-Metricstm...
The AWMA-InfoRhythm C-Metricstm Convenience Industry Outlook Forum is underway in Chicago today, and more than 100 industry professionals are getting an exclusive look at c-store performance for the first half of 2012, based on actual distributor sales data to 28,000 stores and projected to 146,...
A group of Food and Drug Administration regulators visited AWMA member Merchants Grocery Company in Culpeper, VA Wednesday afternoon and viewed the company's tobacco processing operation at the invitation of AWMA and Merchants. The purpose was to help the FDA officials charged with...
Legislation AWMA supported to classify retailers who offer "roll-your-own" (RYO) machines to their customers as "manufacturers" was approved late last night by a Senate-House conference committee. The provision was included as part of the bipartisan Highway bill conference...
