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Foodservice company draws MDEQ fine for wastewater

Associated Press — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:22:04 +0000

PEARL — A foodservice company is paying an $18,000 civil fine for dumping wastewater into Jackson’s sewer system for 11 years without a permit. Valley Services agreed in March to pay the fine to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. An order published by the department says the company’s Pearl facility has been discharging wastewater [...]

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Hostess’ shutdown leaves schools looking for bread

Associated Press — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:40:10 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Dozens of Mississippi school districts are looking for a new supplier for bread and rolls as the shutdown of Hostess impacts lunchrooms. The Mississippi Department of Education tells The Clarion-Ledger six out of seven regions of the state are affected by the shutting down of Hostess Brands foods. Department spokeswoman Patrice Guilfoyle [...]

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McAlister’s sees revenue increase driven by entree sales

MBJ Staff — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:04:08 +0000

RIDGELAND — McAlister’s Deli reports same-store sales increased 7 percent during the third quarter of 2012. Company-owned restaurants were up 6.9 percent and franchise restaurants were up 7 percent. McAlister’s says sales performance was driven by a 5.8 percent increase in entree sales, which is a good measure of traffic gains. For the first three [...]

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McAlister’s Delis going up in Florida, Michigan, Nebraska

MBJ Staff — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:18:18 +0000

RIDGELAND — McAlister’s Deli has signed three multi-unit store development agreements with new and existing franchisees for 10 new restaurants in the greater Tampa, Fla. area, three new restaurants in central Michigan and five new restaurants in Lincoln and Omaha, Neb. New franchisee Brayton Knotts and McKnotts Enterprise, LLC will develop 10 McAlister’s Deli locations [...]

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Merchants subsidiary buys distribution center in Florida

MBJ Staff — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 11:03:27 +0000

HATTIESBURG — Sunrise Fresh Produce LLC., a wholly owned subsidiary of Merchants Foodservice, has completed its acquisition of certain assets from Produce Distribution Center, LLC located in Jacksonville, Fla. Terms were not disclosed. The transaction gives Sunrise Fresh Produce its second produce distribution center as Sunrise Fresh Produce of Jacksonville, Fla. In association with the [...]

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Merchants Foodservice makes national ranking again

MBJ Staff — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:13:45 +0000

HATTIESBURG — The nation’s 50 largest broadline distributors collectively broke the $100-billion mark in 2010, growing sales 5 percent over sales reported by the 2009 Top 50. It was a strong performance following the 2 percent sales decline the Top 50 experienced in 2009. The performance of the top 10 companies alone paints a bright [...]

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GodwinGroup lands Merchants Foodservice account

MBJ Staff — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:02:26 +0000

JACKSON and HATTIESBURG — GodwinGroup of Jackson has been chosen to provide branding and marketing services to Hattiesburg-based Merchants Foodservice. GodwinGroup will be responsible for developing and launching the new brand position with a focus on building and evolving a modern brand personality. Merchants Foodservice currently operates in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, [...]

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U.S. Foodservices expanding in Memphis, not Mississippi

Associated Press — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:19:27 +0000

MEMPHIS — The Memphis division of U.S. Foodservice Inc. has agreed to purchase the building it currently occupies at 5900 Holmes Road from Belz Enterprises. The company had looked at Mississippi for its expansion, but decided to grow in Memphis. While the company previously leased 175,000 square feet of space in the building, the company [...]

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Merchants Foodservice continues to expand

Wally Northway — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:54:26 +0000

HATTIESBURG — Out of the nation’s top food distributors, Merchants Foodservice was ranked number one in sales growth this past year, according to statistics compiled by Institutional Distribution (ID) magazine. Hattiesburg-based Merchants Foodservice continues its growth trend with a 32, 000-square-foot expansion to its Jackson distribution center. The expansion consists of one million cubic feet [...]

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Merchants Foodservice buys Ga. facility

Wally Northway — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:38:51 +0000

HATTIESBURG — Merchants Foodservice, the foodservice distribution division of The Merchants Company, recently acquired a 107,000-square-foot food distribution facility in Tifton, Ga. Terms were not disclosed. This acquisition provides the company with its fourth broadline foodservice distribution center. The distribution center, which will be known as Merchants Foodservice of Georgia, allows the company to expand [...]

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