SpartanNash Co.

MINNEAPOLIS - Nash Finch Co. reported first-quarter net earnings of $3.3 million, compared with a net loss of $174,000 a year earlier. Sales were $856.7 million, compared with $894.6 million in the prior-year period, according to the company, who said results for the quarter were adversely affected by $2.3 million net of tax, or $0.20 per diluted share, paid to our bondholders and bank lenders as consideration for waivers.

MINNEAPOLIS - Nash Finch Co. filed financial reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Thursday, meeting Nasdaq-imposed deadlines.

MINNEAPOLIS - Fleming Cos. has put its 43-store Rainbow Foods unit on the block, according to an article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Spartan Stores Inc. on Monday announced organizational changes under the direction of its new president and CEO Craig C. Sturken.

WASHINGTON - Nash Finch Co. has said it will ask the Nasdaq Stock Market to extend a March 19 deadline to file its report for the quarter ended Oct. 5, 2002, and a March 28 deadline to file its report for the year ended Dec. 28, 2002, Dow Jones newswires reports.

CHICAGO -- Shares of Nash Finch Co. rose more than 59 percent on Wednesday after the food distributor said U.S. regulators would not object to how it accounts for certain vendor charges.

MINNEAPOLIS - Nash Finch Co. said on Tuesday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will not object to how the company accounts for certain vendor charges, based upon the food retailer and distributor's oral and written representations.

MINNEAPOLIS - Nash Finch Co. said on Friday it was notified that it is in default on its $165 million notes because it did not file financial reports on time.