Topco Salutes Member-Owners for Outstanding Store Brand Commitment

Topco Associates, LLC recently held its 2016 Annual Membership Conference February 24 through 26. During the two-day meeting, several members received awards for their performance. Topco is proud to announce the following 2015 award winners:

SpartanNash Co. -Greatest Dollar Growth All Programs

SpartanNash showed great success by utilizing Topco’s market and category expertise to grow own brand sales as well as joined Topco’s Aggregated Pharmacy Initiative (API).

Affiliated Foods Midwest-Greatest Percentage Growth All Programs

Affiliated Foods Midwest demonstrated unparalleled growth by developing a wide array of own brand programs including Full Circle Market, Top Care and Buckley Farms.

Brookshire Holdings, Inc.Markets -Greatest Dollar Growth Center Store

Brookshire Markets’ Full Circle Market and TopCare endcap programs drove outstanding results in 2015.

Associated Food Stores-Greatest Percentage Growth Center Store

Associated Food Stores dedicated a team to drive and support the success of own brand initiatives, which garnered significant growth in center store.

Giant Eagle, LLC -Greatest Dollar Growth Fresh

Giant Eagle continued its successful participation in the produce program while significantly expanding its participation in the Fresh Meat program.

Stater Bros. -Greatest Percentage Growth Fresh

Stater Bros. grew their total fresh purchases by leveraging Topco to source case-ready beef, branded meat and produce.

Weis Markets, Inc. -Greatest Dollar Growth Value Add

Weis Markets, Inc. achieved outstanding dollar growth in Topco’s Pharmacy, Indirect Spend and National Brands programs.

Golub Corporation/Price Chopper-Overall Percentage Growth Value Add

Price Chopper achieved best-in-class percentage growth across all three of Topco’s Value Add programs while leading pharmacy initiatives such as diabetes education, patient care programs and in-store clinics.

K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc. -Greatest Purchase Penetration

For the 12th year in a row, Topco presented K-VA-T Food Stores with the Greatest Purchase Penetration. K-VA-T Food Stores surpassed all members across all programs.

Hy-Vee, Inc. -Highest Purchase Volume

Hy-Vee, Inc. led all members in 2015 in overall purchases for the 11th consecutive year, by increasing purchases by over11 % versus last year.

In addition, several members were honored for their significant Topco anniversaries, including:

• Piggly Wiggly Midwest, LLC-60 years
• Big Y Foods,Inc.-25years
• Larroc, Inc.-10years
• Centro Cuesta Nacional, C. Por A. -10 years
• Roche Bros. Supermarkets, LLC-10years
• Golub Corporation Price Chopper Supermarkets-10 years

"These organizations have shown great leadership by fully utilizing Topco’s market intelligence, category expertise and creative services to create best-in-class own brand offerings," said Jim Goers, Topco Senior Vice President, Member Development and National Brands. "We congratulate these members for their commitment and dedication to Topco."