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MINNEAPOLIS -- In 2004, wholesalerretailer Nash Finch saw positive performance of its food distribution side dragged down by a troubled retail division.

MINNEAPOLIS -- In 2004, wholesalerretailer Nash Finch saw positive performance of its food distribution side dragged down by a troubled retail division.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co. has inked an agreement with Roundy's, Inc. to acquire the net assets, including customer contracts, of the latter company's wholesale food distribution divisions in Westville, Indiana, and Lima, Ohio, and two retail stores in Ironton and Van Wert, Ohio, for approximately $225 million.

HASTINGS, Mich. -- Felpausch Food Centers here is working with Salt Lake City-based Tomax Corp. to deploy the new Retail.net Time and Attendance (TA) solution across Felpausch's 20-store grocery chain, the first time this solution has been deployed.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Penn Traffic Co. has appointed supermarket industry finance executive Robert B. Dimond as its new e.v.p. and c.f.o., subject to the approval of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

MINNEAPOLIS - There might not have been sleigh bells involved, but Nash Finch's corporate aircraft department and the local aviation unit of the Minneapolis Shriners joined forces to make Santa's job a bit easier this year.

MINNEAPOLIS ¿ Nash Finch has appointed three new v.p.'s, Salvatore Baio, Robert J. Dernbach, and Terry J. Littrell.

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