Regina Lee
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Fairway Market
Fairway is well known in the New York tri-state area for being a top of the line gourmet and specialty grocery food store. In addition to being known for carrying specialty foods most supermarkets don’t have, Fairway is also known for being an active local community supporter and environmentally friendly. Fairway Markets are also known…
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DeMoulas’ Market Basket
Residents of the Northeastern United States know that DeMoulas’ Market Basket is the best family-owned one stop grocery shop in the area. DeMoulas’ Market Basket provides a range of supermarket options in each store ranging from baked goods, meat and fresh produce to health and beauty aides. DeMoulas has gone from being a local mom-and-pop…
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Edwards Food Giant
Edwards Food Giant, with supermarkets and convenience stores located in Arkansas, works to be more than just a corporate establishment in the local communities. Edwards FG and FG express remains family operated, and owners of the business participate in local and state committees and boards just to make sure they keep up with the needs…
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Dierbergs
Dierbergs, located in Missouri and Illinois, is one of the main grocery suppliers and retail market employers in the St. Louis area. The privately owned company sticks to its roots by supplying its customers with all of the things their daily grocery needs. History In 1914, William Dierberg purchased a local St. Louis general merchant…
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Fareway Stores, Inc.
Fareway Stores, Inc. is a large Midwest grocer dedicated to providing the freshest in produce, meats and other grocery items. Fareway was created out of a need for fairness, honesty and customer dedication and still today remains focused on holding family values in the highest regard and treating their customers, employees and vendors as family.…
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Kool-Aid
In the early 1900’s, Edwin E. Perkins, later known as the “patent medicine man,” started experimenting with homemade concoctions and remedies in his mothers kitchen in Hasting, Nebraska. Working in his fathers general store, Edwin was introduced to Jell-O, a powered dessert mix that came in six different flavors. After finishing high school, Edwin bought…
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Washburn Crosby Co. – Gold Medal Flour
Gold Medal Flour is a well known ingredient in the kitchens of amateur and professional bakers nationally. In 1856, Cadwaller C. Washburn acquired the Minneapolis Mill Company. He was criticized for opening a mill so large when demands were not thought to match the supply. The quick success of this mill allowed him to open…
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Campbell Soup Company
Joseph A. Campbell, a fruit merchant from New Jersey, partnered with Abraham Anderson in 1869 to form a canning company. They canned tomatoes, vegetables, soups, condiments and minced meats. When Anderson left the company in 1876, it became the “Joseph A. Campbell Preserve Company.” The company then reorganized in 1896 to become “Joseph Campbell &…
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