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Big-Box Warehouse Construction Surges

Building of new “big box” warehouse space, or facilities over 300,000 square-feet with 28-foot ceilings or higher, increased almost six times in four years to 61 million square-feet in 2015, according to Colliers International Group Inc.

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Software Solutions

E2Open Acquires Terra Technology

E2Open, the supply chain operating network, has acquired Terra Technology, a provider of innovative supply chain solutions that help the world’s largest consumer product companies manage market volatility to make better business decisions.

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Golden State Foods Builds Meat Production Plant In Alabama

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Centrally located to GSF’s meat customers in the Southeast and Midwest, this facility will also provide the company with opportunities to explore innovative technology as well as sustainable features for the plant.

GSF executives and civic leaders breaj ground for the company's new protein products facility in Opelika, Ala. The plant is scheduled for completion in 2017.

Farmworkers Call For Wendy’s Boycott Over Tomato Buying

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) are calling for the boycott as part of its long-running campaign to convince Wendy’s to join the Fair Food Program.

The group claims that Wendy’s has decided to stop buying tomatoes from Florida growers after the Fair Food Program was implemented there, and now buys tomatoes from Mexico.

International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses Advises EPA On Proposal Risk Management Program’s Impact On Small Firms

Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA)

The EPA is proposing changes to Risk Management Program in the following areas: Root Cause Analysis, Independent Third Party, Audits, Inherently Safer Technology Assessments, and Emergency Response Enhancements.

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Anheuser-Busch InBev To Sell Chinese Beer Business For $1.6 Billion

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Shares in China Resources Beer soared as much as 30 percent after the Hong Kong-listed brewer announced on March 2 that it was buying the 49 percent of CR Snow it did not already own.

Featured In Food Logistics: How Data Metrics Revolutionizes Lift Truck Management

Telematics and onboard computers – technologies that are revolutionizing delivery fleet efficiency – are bringing similar benefits to lift truck fleets.

Lift truck management software allows Southern Wine & Spirits to monitor the efficiency of a Landoll lift truck.

Amazon Strikes Distribution Pact With Morrisons Supermarket In The U.K.

Enabling the online retail giant to compete with Britain's biggest supermarket stores and smallest local shops, the deal marks Amazon's latest assault on a British market already buckling under the weight of fierce competition and rapid online growth.

Enabling the online retail giant to compete with Britain's biggest supermarket stores and smallest local shops, the deal marks Amazon's latest assault on a British market already buckling under the weight of fierce competition and rapid online growth.

United Natural Foods Inc. Acquires Haddon House Food Products Inc.

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI)

Haddon is a distributor and merchandiser of natural and organic and gourmet ethnic products throughout the Eastern U.S.

United Natural Foods, Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all outstanding stock of Haddon House Food Products, Inc. and certain affiliated entities as well as certain real estate, in a cash transaction for approximately $217.5 million.

European Food Retailers Expand Into Non-Food To Improve E-Commerce

To have a chance of turning a profit in grocery e-commerce, retailers need scale and they are more likely to recoup delivery costs if they can get shoppers to add higher margin non-food items to their shopping cart.

As Amazon encroaches on supermarket territory, traditional European retailers are taking bigger steps to fight the U.S. e-commerce giant by offering more non-food products and using extensive store networks as delivery hubs.

Whole Foods Market Invests In Instacart, Signs 5-Year Pact

The two companies have also signed a five-year delivery partnership, these people said, making Instacart the exclusive delivery partner for Whole Foods’ perishables business.

The $10 billion national grocery store chain is making an investment in the four-year-old delivery startup, according to multiple sources.

Ready For A Rebound

The Midwest region still has its share of challenges recovering from the recession, but opportunity and availability for development exists.

One of the new bridges in downtown Louisville, the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge (on right), opened up for traffic just before Christmas allowing for traffic to use the new route while the existing John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge undergoes it’s $22 million renovation.

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