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Buehler's Mary McMillen helps keep the retailer's competitive edge sharp with creative consumer marketing and education programs.

NEW YORK - Nash Finch Co. a supermarket operator and wholesale food distributor, yesterday boosted its quarterly dividend to 13.5 cents per share from nine cents, according to Reuters.

MINNEAPOLIS - James Patitucci has joined Nash Finch Co. as its new e.v.p., merchandising and marketing.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Nash Finch Co., a food retail and distribution company based here, today named Michael J. Lewis e.v.p. and president of retail. As president of retail Lewis will have responsibility for operations, retail merchandising and marketing, real estate, and construction.

MINNEAPOLIS - Nash Finch on Thursday announced the grand opening of the second Avanza Supermarket in Chicago. Avanza, aimed at serving the rapidly growing Hispanic marketplace, carries an extensive variety of authentic products.

The still-developing competitive picture in grocery wholesaling could be rosy for those with imagination and dark for the less creative.

Once the cellar dwellars of the produce department, mushrooms are coming into their own as a stable, profitable category.

The Hispanic aisle continues to progress as manufacturers target the country's largest minority group.