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Dan Ratner Joins FMI as Senior Director, Member Services

FMI today announces the appointment of Dan Ratner as senior director of member services. In his role at FMI, Ratner will contribute to a dynamic strategy for enhancing member value, retention and ...

FMI Responds to U.S. PIRG Survey on Food Recalls

FMI Chief Food and Product Safety Officer and SVP Food Safety, Hilary Thesmar, PhD, RD, CFS, offered the following comments on the U.S. PIRG study, which independently offered recommendations for communicating food recalls in ...

FMI Partners with Leading Professional Services Firms to Bring New Food Marketplace Issues into Focus

FMI recently released two related studies that define the role emerging issues play in the food industry, namely helping companies strategically prepare for the new realities of marketplace, based heavily on the influence of an era of new ...

FMI Appoints New Board of Directors, Reflecting the New Food Marketplace

FMI today announces its 2020 Board of Directors, reflecting the business of food, and related grocery products – wherever they are bought, sold or produced. FMI introduced six product suppliers to its board and ushered in a new term chairman, Randy ...

FMI Foundation Recognizes 2019 Gold Plate Award Winners

The FMI Foundation recognized eight food retailers, two suppliers and one community collaborator as elite contributors to the family meal movement. Each of the 2019 Gold Plate Awards recipients helped families achieve one more meal each week at home....

FMI Celebrates Six Leaders for their Investments in the Food Industry

FMI - The Food Industry Association honored six individuals who have elevated the food industry through their investments in talent, the customer and for transforming the business environment. FMI recognized these 2020 Executive Leadership Award ...

FMI Endorses ReposiTrak Solution For Fixing Out-of-Stocks

FMI–The Food Industry Association and ReposiTrak Inc. jointly announced today that FMI is endorsing ReposiTrak’s OOS Management Solution to address the grocery industry’s long-term and growing problem of out-of-stocks. FMI brings together a wide ...

FMI – The Food Industry Association – Repositions Itself for the Future

FMI today launches a renewed brand identity as FMI - The Food Industry Association, reflecting its strategy to more broadly represent the food marketplace and embrace a more interconnected supply chain. FMI views retail as the heart of the food ...

FMI Welcomes Passage of Trilateral Trade Agreement

This tri-lateral trade agreement maintains and secures existing supply chains and will result in continued growth in U.S. food and beverage exports. FMI thanks House and Senate leadership for their efforts to pass legislation that benefits American ...

FMI Pleased the House Voted to Move USMCA Forward

On behalf of the Food Marketing Institute’s (FMI) 1000 member companies, FMI's Vice President of Tax, Trade, Sustainability & Policy Development, Andy Harig, offered the following statement on the House’s passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada ...

FMI Disappointed 2019 Spending Bill Lacks Correction of Retail Glitch

Andy Harig, vice president, tax, trade, sustainability & policy development for FMI expressed dissatisfaction that this oversight in the tax code has prevented retailers from implementing operational improvements inside their businesses and ...

Food Retailers Expand Grocery Health and Wellness Programs

FMI released the 2019 Retailer Contributions to Health and Wellness report today, finding grocery stores are expanding the health and wellness programs they offer to shoppers....

FMI Applauds Agreement on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

Food Marketing Institute (FMI) released the following comments from Andy Harig, vice president, tax, trade, sustainability & policy development, on the announcement of a path forward for the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Agreement....

Pharmacy Coalition Applauds Needed Pharmacy Patient Reforms in Bipartisan Drug Pricing Package

A coalition of national pharmacy groups today applauded the latest version of the bipartisan Prescription Drug Pricing Reduction Act, released Friday by the Senate Finance Committee, which they say addresses backdoor clawback fees charged by large ...

Private Brands Research Series Showcases the Complexity of Consumer Shopping Expectations

Newly released consumer research by FMI and its insights provider IRI® reveals that food retail private brands have greater influence on where grocery customers shop. Today, 46% of consumers say store brands influence their store choice, versus just ...