Harps Announces New Pork Initiative
by June 16, 2014 4:04 pm 84 views
Harps Food Stores Inc. of Springdale said Monday it will roll out a new branded pork program in the fall.
The program, according to a news release, will be done in partnership with Seaboard Foods, a division of publicly traded Seaboard Corp. of Kansas City, Missouri, and one of the largest vertically integrated pork producers and processors in the United States.
“The new pork program will improve our customers experience and will allow us to provide a more consistent quality pork product at the same price points,” said Carey Otwell, Harps director of meat and seafood. “Being a smaller company, we have the ability to partner with single-source suppliers, which means one pork processor can supply all our pork needs and we can control quality at a whole new level this way.”
In support of the new pork rollout, Harps hosted a pork quality training seminar June 19 in Fayetteville at The Event Center.
More than 100 people from the Harps management team, including all of its meat managers, will attend the seminar, led by noted pork expert Dr. David Newman, an animal scientist at North Dakota State University.
Harps operates 75 Price Cutter and Harps grocery stores in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri.