Spectrum

Spectrum is a bimonthly, magazine-style publication that covers all aspects of Pennsylvania's retail food industry. It provides legislative/regulatory updates, member activities, association news, a Buyer's Guide and advertisements from our Corporate Leadership Sponsors. 

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Legislator spotlights

Legislator spotlight:
​State Sen. Mike Regan

​What are your top three legislative priorities in 2021?​​ I spent over two decades with the United States Marshals Service, so protecting Pennsylvanians and their communities is my top priority. I have legislation ... Read more!
Jan/Feb 2021

Legislator spotlight:
​State Rep. Joanna McClinton

What are your top three legislative priorities in 2021?​​ First of all, COVID relief is No. 1. This pandemic is getting worse by the day. The Governor in his briefing (December 10) shared a true concern... Read more!
Nov/Dec 2020

Legislator spotlight:
State Sen. Kim Ward

What are your top three legislative priorities in 2021?​​​  I think this year has changed our priorities. I think the priority for right now is the Constitutional Amendment, Senate Bill 1166 that gives the legislature... Read more!
Nov/Dec 2020

Member features

Still working hard,
​still waiting on vaccines

Masks, vaccinations and sanitization fogging machines had never been concerns for Andrea Karns, vice president of marketing and sales at Karns Quality Foods. Yet 2020 ushered in its own worries​... Read more!
Jan/Feb 2021

Creating new partnerships 
​during a pandemic

Timing is everything. Just two weeks after the U.S. shut down amid the coronavirus outbreak, Jeff Allen sold his family’s nearly 110-year-old distribution company. On March 27, Allen Brothers... Read more!
Nov/Dec 2020

Focused on community,
​Boyer's looks to the future

“Cheers” got it right—sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. That’s a concept that the Boyer’s family has embraced as a neighborhood grocery store chain, and it’s a feeling that Dean Walker intends to... Read more!
Sept/Oct 2020

Association news

Jessica Zajac of State College earns PFMA's 2021 DECA Scholarship

The annual DECA Scholarship sponsored by the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association (PFMA) awarded $1,000 to Jessica Zajac, a senior at State College Area High School who has been involved in DECA for the past four years... Read more!
Jan/Feb 2021

PA FFFI grants now available to eligible grocers and food retail outlets

Grants are now available through the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (PA FFFI), a program that invests in new or expanding grocery stores and other healthy food retail outlets in under-resourced communities... Read more!
Jan/Feb 2021

Alex Baloga, PFMA president & CEO, joins FIAE Board of Directors

Alex Baloga, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association, has joined the Food Industry Association Executives (FIAE) Board of Directors for 2021. Since 1927, FIAE has worked to represent... Read more!
Nov/Dec 2020
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