Kathy Doherty

Katherine Doherty Tn

Kathy Doherty served as editor-in-chief of Food Logistics from 1997-2011.

Top 100 3PL Providers Offer Superior Service to Grocery and Foodservice Distributors and Manufacturers

Now in its sixth year, the list has grown to 100 companies—by adding a number of cold storage providers to the mix.

Dsc 5894faded 10325149

Diamond Foods Takes A Shine To Lift Truck Leasing

With its snack business growing in leaps and bounds, Diamond Foods realized it needed a more reliable lift truck fleet.

Innovators Shine

For the eighth year in a row, we honor the FL Logistics Innovators, companies that stand out in the crowd by taking a unique approach to solving common problems that are typical in today's operations.

Flogmarchcover 10325170

Walmart Canada Opens Largest Sustainable Refrigerated Food Distribution Center in Canada

Walmart Canada opens up the largest sustainable refrigerated food distribution center in Canada.

Food Safety Modernization Act Focus on Prevention of Contamination

Identify the critical control points in your operations and avoid contamination.

Notsmallchange 10255493

No Small Change: 99¢ Only Stores Make the Most of Refrigerated Facilities

99¢ Only Stores makes the most out of its refrigerated facility in Commerce, CA.

Feasting On Food Safety: How FSMA Impacts the Industry

After a decade of highly publicized food product recalls, the Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) is finally passed.

STORE READY: Products are placed on trays, where they make their way to the selection area to be stored. When a store order comes in, they will be automatically sent to a pallet.

Fast Forward to Today: Sobey's Automated Grocery Distribution Center in Canada is Ahead of its Time

The grocery distribution center of the future has arrived—Sobey Inc.’s new automated facility in Canada. At the heart of the DC is a case picking system that can handle 320,000 cases per day.

PALLET POWER: PowerStage, which works in conjunction with PowerStor and PowerBuild, is a flexible, high speed pallet staging system.

Flexible Storage Solutions

PAS Americas is rethinking warehouse automation with a new line of solutions.

Goldenpalletawards 10255672

Jake's Finer Foods Expands Warehouse, Acquires New Lift Trucks

Solutions in new facility will help this foodservice distributor save $4.6 million over the next five years.

MIXING IT UP: An ergonomic manually assisted palletizer system builds mixed cases for a grocery retailer.

Automation Domination

Grocery wholesalers and food distributors are jumping on the automation bandwagon.

Total Recall

While companies can and do take the necessary precautions to avoid recall situations, food safety is not foolproof.

The Wearing of the 'Green'

How a company makes money is just as important as how much it makes.

Go Your Own Way

Innovation always requires a certain uncertainty, but as these companies will attest, the potential rewards make the risks worth taking.