September 4, 2010
Kathleen McLaughlinWorkers at the Beech Grove grocery will vote Sept. 17. The United Food and Commercial Workers would have to prevail in votes
at all locations to provide representation for the entire chain.
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August 21, 2010
Cory SchoutenThe parent company of Marsh Supermarkets plans to continue investing in the local grocery chain after it failed to find a
buyer for the chain of roughly 100 stores. Half of those are in Indianapolis.
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August 11, 2010
IBJ StaffNoble Roman’s Inc. profit and revenue slipped in the second quarter as fewer of its traditional Noble’s Pizza
and Tuscano’s Italian Style Subs stores were operating.
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July 12, 2010
Local 700 said worker interest in union representation began to rise at Marsh Supermarkets after Florida-based private equity
group Sun Capital Partners acquired the grocery chain in 2006.
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July 10, 2010
Marc D. AllanWomen are leading the movement toward healthful, organic food grown close to home. Farmer's markets, CSAs, food co-ops are
sign of growing trend.
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June 28, 2010
J.K. WallAn alliance of drugstores, groceries and gas stations is using the July Fourth holiday—which falls this year on Sunday—to
drum up more support for ending Indiana’s ban on Sunday retail sales of alcohol.
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June 17, 2010
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 700 says the grocery chain used illegal interrogation practices and fired a worker
for exercising his right to organize a union.
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March 19, 2010
Scott OlsonTexas-based Blue Bell Creameries will begin selling its ice cream in nine metropolitan Meijer stores beginning April 5. Distribution
will be assisted by the building of a 12,000-square-foot facility on the northwest side.
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December 5, 2009
Cory SchoutenFlorida-based Sun Capital has completed the turnaround of Marsh Supermarkets and now is seeking a buyer
for the home-grown chain. CEO Frank Lazaran told IBJ Sun will sell Marsh “when the market is right, financing
is right, and
someone is willing to pay a fair multiple.”
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October 13, 2009
Cory SchoutenThe O'Malia's Food Market near 56th Street and Emerson Avenue will close for good this weekend after a 33-year run.
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October 10, 2009
Anthony SchoettleA new eye-grabbing advertising design in The Indianapolis Star has some wondering where ad content stops and news
content begins.
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September 12, 2009
IBJ StaffThe new market, which will also offer catering services, is in a strip center owned by locally based
Centre Properties and anchored by Beauty Brands and Panera.
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September 12, 2009
IBJ StaffSunday is the second-busiest grocery-shopping day of the week in Indiana, but there’s one product Hoosiers aren’t
allowed to put in their shopping carts that day even though it’s perfectly legal the rest of the week. That’s
because an archaic blue law prohibits carryout liquor sales on Sundays.
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August 17, 2009
Marsh Supermarkets quickly realized it could not honor the flood of redemptions of the $10 coupon it recently offered to its
Facebook friends.
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August 4, 2009
Marsh Supermarkets late yesterday issued a mea culpa after it stopped honoring a $10 coupon just
days after introducing the online promotion.
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August 3, 2009
Scott OlsonMarsh Supermarkets’ decision to stop honoring a $10 online coupon just days after introducing the promotion has angered
hundreds of followers of the grocer’s Facebook page.
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August 3, 2009
Scott OlsonMarsh Supermarkets' decision to stop honoring a $10 online coupon just days after introducing
the promotion has angered hundreds of followers of the grocer's Facebook page.
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December 29, 2008
Sarah LaydenGeorgetown Market has stayed in the health food game since 1973, in part because of owner Rick Montieth's ability to see down
the road.
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March 24, 2008
Jennifer WhitsonMatt Ewer and his wife, Elizabeth Blessing, launched Farm Fresh Delivery LLC in July. With nearly 500 subscribers already,
the organically- and locally-grown-groceries delivery business is blooming in a segment where many large, mass-market retailers
failed during the dotcom bust.
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October 29, 2007
Cory SchoutenThe developer of a $750 million mixed-use project called Venu has acquired a 13-acre site across the street from where another
developer had planned to build condos and a Whole Foods Market.
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June 11, 2007
Greg AndrewsBy now, David Marsh might be regretting he ever decided to take on former employer Marsh Supermarkets Inc. in court. Since
he filed his lawsuit last fall charging the company his grandfather founded had shortchanged him on severance, the company
has stormed back with a blizzard of allegations.
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September 4, 2006
Anthony SchoettleThe 156-year-old Terre Haute company that quietly churned out nothing but its trademark baking powder for more than a century
is now serving notice to General Mills' Bisquick and other well-known brands that the status quo is dead.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.