- Janice Hoppe-Spiers
- Retail Spotlights
Chukar Cherries
Chukar Cherries expands its processing facility and looks to add another retail site
as demand continues to increase for its high-quality, all-natural products.
- Janice Hoppe-Spiers
- Retail Spotlights
Good Foods Group
Good Foods Group specializes in creating high-quality, better-for-you products that are nutritious and delicious.
- Kat Zeman
- Retail Spotlights
Swiss Farms
Swiss Farms is celebrating its 50th anniversary and investing into technology.
By Kat Zeman, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media
People that don’t live in Pennsylvania probably aren’t familiar with grocery shopping while sitting inside their cars. But for those living in the Quaker State, drive-thru markets are a popular solution for shopping needs. These drive-thru markets are known as Swiss Farms. They offer everything from basic grocery items to toiletries and freshly prepared foods.
- Jim Harris
- Retail Spotlights
Turner's Furniture
The Turner’s brands continue to offer high-quality furniture to customers at a great value.
By Jim Harris
Turner’s Furniture’s commitment to quality and value has made it successful for more than 100 years. “We have a great team of employees and a lot of loyal customers,” says co-owner Fortson Turner, who along with his brother Austin Turner represents the fourth generation of family ownership at the company. “We try to be financially conservative and keep our internal costs as low as possible, so our prices can be as low as possible.”
Founded in 1915, the Turner family owns and operates four locations under the Turner’s Fine Furniture brand in Leesburg, Tifton, Valdosta and Thomasville, Ga. The company also operates six locations under the Turner’s Budget Furniture brand in south Georgia as well as Tallahassee, Fla.
- Jim Harris
- Retail Spotlights
Schiffman's
Schiffman’s dedication to clients and employees, as well as its selection of high-quality jewelry and timepieces, has remained constant throughout its 125 years in business.
By Jim Harris, Senior Editor at Knighthouse Media
Simon Schiffman’s high standards for the products and service offered by his namesake jewelry store continue to guide the business, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this year.
“We are a very honorable and straightforward company,” says Lane Schiffman, Simon’s great-grandson and co-owner of the store along with his brothers Arnold Schiffman III and Vance Schiffman. “We would not have developed the reputation we have over the past 125 years without being honest, having integrity and being trustworthy.”
- Knighthouse Media
- Retail Spotlights
TOPS Friendly Markets
TOPS Friendly Markets prides itself on giving back to its customers’ communities.
Generations of families in upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania and Vermont have come to know TOPS Friendly Markets as the trusted place to feed their families.
- Janice Hoppe-Spiers
- Retail Spotlights
CEC Entertainment
CEC Entertainment is revamping its Chuck E. Cheese's locations to showcase
its high-quality food standards while adding to the entertainment experience.
- Bianca Herron
- Retail Spotlights
Wise Foods
Ninety-seven-year old Wise Snacks aims to leverage cutting-edge technology and key partnerships to expand into new snack categories. By Bianca Herron
Longevity is a goal for which most companies strive, but has proven to be very elusive for the majority of companies. The companies that achieve longevity need long-term vision, lots of hard work, a little luck and a mindset of continual reinvention to stay relevant to the changing times. Wise Foods Inc. is no different, according to Chief Marketing Officer Jeremy Bjork.
Wise Foods started as Wise Potato Chip Company in 1921. As a young grocer, founder Earl Wise Sr. began making potato chips as a way to make use of an excess inventory of potatoes at his store. He did all the work by hand in his mother’s kitchen, then sold the chips in brown paper bags from his store.
Four years after making his first potato chip, Wise opened his first production plant in Berwick, Pa. The small, concrete building continued to expand over the next two decades until 1944, when the production plant was destroyed in a fire. After eight months, a new state-of-the-art production facility was built and expanded upon for the remainder of the decade.
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