Houchens Meals Group Honored with Two Prestigious Awards
Las Vegas, NV —At present, the Nationwide Grocers Affiliation (NGA), the commerce affiliation representing the impartial grocery store business, honored the winners of its annual Artistic Selection Awards at The NGA Present, which acknowledges excellent advertising and marketing and merchandising applications in impartial grocery retailers throughout the nation.
Houchens Meals Group was honored with two nationwide awards this yr: the Cheez-It Influence Award and the Unilever Individuals Constructive Award, recognizing the corporate’s dedication to individuals, innovation, and significant neighborhood impression.
Houchens acquired the Unilever Individuals Constructive Award for its Above and Past program, a company-wide recognition initiative designed to have fun associates who make a distinction every single day.
The corporate additionally earned the Cheez-It Influence Award for its Add Milk! marketing campaign, an revolutionary initiative centered on bettering entry to nutritious choices for households.
From the class winners, one “Excellent Marketer” and one “Excellent Merchandiser” have been chosen by means of voting.
Clark’s Market was voted “Excellent Marketer” for its Clark’s Perks program. Going through seasonal slowdowns, Clark’s Market constructed a better technique to have interaction native buyers by remodeling a easy promotion into a completely built-in loyalty initiative. By mixing rewards, neighborhood giveback, and omnichannel advertising and marketing, Clark’s Perks generated greater than 2,400 new loyalty members in simply six weeks and drove a 5 to 12 p.c gross sales carry throughout shops.
The “Excellent Merchandising” award was awarded to Fareway for its Actually Yours non-public label model. Designed to raise the non-public label expertise, Actually Yours options premium packaging, better-for-you attributes, and trend-driven limited-time flavors. The launch efficiently drove trial, loyalty, and pleasure whereas sustaining model worth with out discounting.
Collectively, this yr’s Artistic Selection Awards winners mirror the energy of impartial retailers and companions who proceed to show objective into motion, innovation into impression, and creativity into measurable outcomes throughout the grocery business.
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In regards to the Nationwide Grocers Affiliation
NGA is the nationwide commerce affiliation representing the retail and wholesale neighborhood grocers that comprise the impartial sector of the meals distribution business. An impartial retailer is a privately owned or managed meals retail firm working a wide range of codecs. The impartial grocery sector is accountable for about 1.2 p.c of the nation’s general economic system and is answerable for producing greater than $250 billion in gross sales, 1.1 million jobs, $39 billion in wages and $36 billion in taxes. NGA members embody retail and wholesale grocers situated in each congressional district throughout the nation, in addition to state grocers’ associations, producers and repair suppliers. For extra details about NGA, go to www.nationalgrocers.org.
About The NGA Present
Because the premier occasion for the impartial grocery business, The NGA Present brings collectively grocery retailers, wholesalers, producers, and suppliers from throughout the nation for 3 days of studying, networking, and product discovery in Las Vegas. For 2026, we’re excited to host the occasion on the MGM Grand Convention Heart – permitting all attendees to collect underneath one roof for a extra related and handy expertise. Whether or not you’re launching your first retailer or main a multi-generational grocery enterprise, The NGA Present presents the insights, improvements, and relationships that assist impartial grocers thrive.
