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Walmart Tops List of Winners of PLMA’s annual Salute to Excellence Awards®
NEW YORK (November 16, 2025) - Walmart once again tops the list of winners of PLMA’s annual Salute to Excellence Awards®. The retailer received 15 awards across multiple categories for its Vibrant Life™, Parent's Choice™, bettergoods™, Marketside®, Great Value™ and Equate™ store brands.
Albertsons, CVS Pharmacy, Lidl, Sam’s Club, Topco Associates and Whole Foods Market are among other companies winning multiple awards.
PLMA’s annual Salute to Excellence Awards® program recognizes outstanding food and nonfood products introduced within the last year by supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchandisers, convenience stores, online retailers, wholesalers and more. Submissions were sampled and evaluated by a panel ...
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Rouses Markets To Acquire 10 Winn-Dixie Stores
Rouses Markets has entered into an agreement to acquire 10 Winn-Dixie locations in Louisiana and Mississippi from Southeastern Grocers, parent company of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket, with the changeover expected to be complete in early 2026.
“We are proud to welcome these stores, their team members and their customers into the Rouses Markets family,” said Donny Rouse Jr., third-generation CEO.
“These locations in New Orleans East, Destrehan, Franklinton, Gramercy and Central, Louisiana, and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, are all areas we have looked at for a long time.
“We are also strengthening our presence in Marrero, Covington, Mandeville and Kenner, which continue to ...
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Aussie Select Launches at Wegmans, Bringing First-to-Market Lamb Charcuterie to Deli Counters
Marietta, GA / Rochester, NY (September 2025)– Aussie Select, the nation’s first fully cooked lamb charcuterie brand, will launch at Wegmans Food Markets on October 6. Crafted in the U.S. from premium Australian pasture-raised lamb, the all-natural line debuts with two sliced-at-the-deli items: Lamb Prime Rib and Lamb Pastrami. Both are free from added nitrates or nitrites and developed to deliver versatility across sandwiches, boards and prepared foods.
The launch comes as the deli case continues to experience strong growth. Charcuterie is one of the fastest-expanding categories in retail deli, with double-digit year-over-year growth as consumers embrace entertaining and grazing ...
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