001 - The
FMI Show opens, featuring the MARKETECHNICS food technology showcase for
the first time. |
002 - Food
industry executives examine items at the FMI Show New Product Showcase.
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003 - An exhibitor
demonstrates an array of advanced industry technologies. |
004 - Supermarkets
offer basic medical diagnostic services and starting to feature in-store
clinics such as the Little Clinic.
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005 - FMI
Senior Vice President Michael Sansolo and President and CEO Tim Hammonds
give the state-of-the industry presentation. |
006 - Wegmans
Food Markets President Colleen Wegman talks about how retailers and
suppliers can build strong partnerships.
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007 - New
FMI Board Chair Steve Smith of K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc., shares his insights
into industry issues and how the association will work to resolve them. |
008 - The
Grand Prize winners of FMI's 2007 Store Manager Superior Service Awards
(from left): Don Blair, manager of a BI-LO, LLC, supermarket in Rock
Hill, SC; Kenneth Hall, Jr., manager of the Schnuck Markets, Inc., store
in East St. Louis, IL; and Lewis F. “Bud” Kennedy, manager
of the Green Hills Farms, Inc., supermarket in Syracuse, NY.
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009 - Fred
Reicheld, author of Loyalty Rules and The Ultimate Question, talks about
building a high level of customer satisfaction, emphasizing the key role
that employees can play. |
010 - The
grand concourse at the FMI Show and the four conventions that ran concurrently
at the McCormick Place: All Things Organic, Fancy Food Show, United
Fresh Marketplace and the U.S. Food Export Showcase.
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011 - Category
Close-up workshops on a wide variety of topics drew large crowds in theaters
on the FMI Show floor. |
012 - In
a super session speech, James Maxim focused on how to use technology
to more precisely meet consumer demands. Maxim is the founder and chair
of Global Brand Development and co-author of The Support Economy: Why
Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism.
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013 - How
to enhance food security defense was the focus of a presentation by Don
Kautter, Jr., general health scientist at FDA's Center for Food Safety
and Applied Nutrition. |
014 - Filling
the industry's leadership talent needs highlighted a panel featuring
Russell T. "Tres" Lund, III, chairman and CEO of Lund Food
Holdings, Inc., (left) and Jane Knaack -Esbeck, vice president of human
resources and administration at Hy-Vee, Inc.
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015 - An exhibitor
in FMI's Supplier Diversity Program demonstrates his products. |
016 - "What
Comes After What Comes Next" was the topic of visionary speaker
Thorton May, executive director and dean of the IT Leadership Academy.
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017 - Marines
display special tins of Santa's Cookies made by Bayport Cottage as part
of a drive to raise $1 million this year for the Marine Toys for Tots
Foundation. Bayport will donate $1 from the sale of each tin to the charity.
FMI is co-sponsoring this drive. |
018 - Rajiv
Lal, Harvard Business School's Stanley Roth, Sr., professor of retailing,
examines how companies can recruit leaders to fill challenging management
needs today and tomorrow.
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019 - Volunteers
for the Greater Chicago Food Depository box food samples left over from
the FMI Show and partner events. They gathered an estimated 200,000 pounds
of food, enough to provide 150,000 meals for needy families in the city. |
020 - Motivational
speaker Herman Cain closed out the FMI Show describing how leaders can
inspire extraordinary achievement in other people.
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