Water Drive Taking Place at all Michigan Corporate-owned Stores and
Headquarters
Corporation and Teamsters Join Forces to donate 2 semi-truck loads
SpartanNash (Nasdaq: SPTN) is helping its neighbors in Flint, Michigan,
by providing safe drinking water.
Beginning Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, and ending Saturday, Feb. 13,
2016, customers at all 91 Michigan D&W, Family Fare, VG’s, ValuLand and
Forest Hills Foods stores and Fuel Centers will have the opportunity to
make a cash register donation of $2.99 toward a 24-pack case of Spartan®
brand bottled water. SpartanNash associates also pitching in and
donating at the company’s Michigan headquarters.
SpartanNash will apply 100 percent of the proceeds toward the water
donations and deliver the water to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan
(located at 2300 Lapeer Rd., Flint, MI). The Food Bank will distribute
the water to Flint residents with the help of their community partners.
“We have been working since last fall to help our neighbors in Flint,”
said Meredith Gremel, Vice President, Corporate Affairs and
Communications, SpartanNash. “Michiganders take pride in their state and
watch out for each other. We have had customers and associates asking us
how they can help and send water with our donations. With the scan, we
make it easy and even do the heavy lifting — we also deliver as needed
to facilitate distribution for our community partners.”
SpartanNash and Teamsters join forces to deliver two semi-truck loads
Teamsters Local 406 based out of SpartanNash’s Grand Rapids, Michigan,
distribution center donated one truckload (20 pallets) of Spartan® brand
water to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan earlier this week, and
SpartanNash matched their donation — for a total of 3,360 cases or
80,640 bottles of water. The Teamsters delivered the two truckloads of
water to the Food Bank on January 20.
In the fall of 2015, SpartanNash’s VG’s store in Caro, Michigan, donated
168 cases (2 pallets, or 4,000 bottles) of water to Flint Community
Schools. All VG’s stores partnered with Flint Community Schools by
holding a water drive in stores. All the water donations were given to
Flint Community Schools. A total of 207 cases of water were donated by
the community and were delivered on November 12, 2015.
About SpartanNash
SpartanNash (SPTN) is a Fortune 400 company and the leading food
distributor serving U.S. military commissaries and exchanges in the
world, in terms of revenue. The Company's core businesses include
distributing food to military commissaries and exchanges and independent
and corporate-owned retail stores located in 46 states and the District
of Columbia, Europe, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Bahrain and Egypt. SpartanNash
currently operates 163 supermarkets, primarily under the banners of
Family Fare Supermarkets, Family Fresh Markets, D&W Fresh Markets, and
SunMart. SpartanNash’s Michigan-based corporate stores include D&W Fresh
Market, Family Fare Supermarkets, Forest Hills Foods, VG’s, and ValuLand
banners.
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