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MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. here said a fourth-quarter loss of $26 million was due to a large jump in pretax charges and a drop in sales.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Wal-Mart and Safeway are the newest companies to join the new Fruits & Veggies -- More Matters license agreement initiative launched by the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) here. All told, 33 retail companies representing approximately 20,000 individual retail stores across the nation have signed on with the More Matters campaign.

WILMINGTON, Del. - Wal-Mart and Safeway are the newest companies to join the new Fruits & Veggies -- More Matters license agreement initiative launched by the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) here. All told, 33 retail companies representing approximately 20,000 individual retail stores across the nation have signed on with the More Matters campaign.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Spartan Stores here will break ground tomorrow morning for the 25th Family Fare supermarket, at a site that had been the Allendale Christian School in Allendale, Mich., as the school prepares to relocate to a plot directly behind the store. The 49,000-square-foot prototype full-service supermarket and grade school were both made possible by the cooperation Spartan and school officials, township planners, and developers.

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MINNEAPOLIS - The reshuffling of the executive deck at Nash Finch Co. here continues, with the latest additions of Gary Spinazze as v.p./vendor relations, and Tom Strzelczyk as new v.p./food distribution, Great Lakes region.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Robert B. Dimond has left Wild Oats to rejoin Nash Finch Co. here as c.f.o./e.v.p./treasurer, effective January 2, 2007.

MINNEAPOLIS - The Nash Finch Co. based here has joined First Book, an international nonprofit organization providing new books to children from low-income families, in an event at the Minnesota Children's Museum to celebrate the launch of a new partnership benefiting needy children.