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Caito Foods feeds more than fresh produce into the supply chain, with seminars that teach retailers how to compete better.

PASADENA, Calif. -- Liborio Markets, a small but growing Hispanic grocery operator based here, broke ground earlier this week for its first Colorado store and future prototype, set to open this summer and being built in Commerce City on the site of a former King Soopers.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. here reported strong earnings and sales gains in fiscal 2005, capped by a 20 percent gain in fourth quarter profits from higher sales and a tax break; and earnings per share that bettered analysts' expectations.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Allister P. Graham, currently chairman of the board of Nash Finch here, has been named the company's interim c.e.o..

INDIANAPOLIS -- Having put itself on the block late last year, Marsh Supermarkets now is apparently aiming to sweeten the pot by cutting $28 million from the amount executives would receive if the company succeeds in finding a buyer.

MINNEAPOLIS-- Nash Finch Company said yesterday that a class action lawsuit had been filed against the company and some of its executives in United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, on behalf of shareholders who claim that the defendants violated the Securities Exchange Act by issuing false statements so as to artificially inflate the price of Nash Finch stock.

DENVER -- Jim Henger has joined the National Cattlemen's Beef Association here as executive director of retail marketing.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. here recently recognized two retailers on their superb performance during a recently conducted Truckload Sale promotion.