BAIC Hosts Influential Delegation to Andros

The likes of Bahamas Food Services, Super Value Food Stores and Atlantis have partnered with the "Buy Fresh, Buy Bahamian" campaign to help boost the slim agriculture sector.

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5.3M Solomon's 'Breaks Out Of Box'

The new $5.3 million Solomon's Fresh Market, an anchor for the Old Bay Bay Town Centre development, is scheduled to open in a matter of days.

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AML 'claws back' sales decline to around '1.5-2'

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

AML Foods has "clawed back" the 6-7 per cent first half sales decline to close its 2011 financial year with the top-line down just 1.5-2 per cent year-over-year, an achievement its chairman yesterday described as "quite remarkable", adding: "We're rocking and rolling."

Citing reasons as to why the BISX-listed food retail group's investors should stick wi...

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200 construction jobs in 18m Town Centre Phs 1

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

New Providence Development Company has broken ground on the $18 million first phase construction of its Old Fort Bay Town Centre, a project that will generate 200 construction sector jobs and act as the "anchor" for the fully-Masterplanned development of its remaining 2,200-acre landholdings in the western end of the island.

T. Rhys Duggan, New Providenc...

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Food Stores/Supermarkets

Step up for health

Forty-five percent of Bahamian children between the ages of 13 and 15 are obese or overweight, according to the Bahamas Global School-based Student Health Survey 2013.

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AML stores prepared for single plastic bag ban

AML Food Limited stores (Solomon's Fresh Market, Solomon's and Cost Right) are prepared for the single plastic bag ban and are making certain their customers are also ready, said Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations Renea Bastian.

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4.5m store opening is pushed back

Sub-Deck:

* Construction starts on AML Foods' Solomon's Fresh Market outlet, but opening put back from Easter 2011 to probably end-of-summer

File Pic of Gavin Watchorn

By ALISON LOWE

Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

Construction has now begun on the site of what will become AML Foods' $4.5 million Solomon's Fresh Market grocery store in western New Providence, with an initial Spring ...

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Fresh Market's 10 Super Value sales bite 'wonderful'

AML Food's Solomon's Fresh Market has captured 10 percent of Super Value's Mackey Street sales, an outcome Super Value President Rupert Roberts described as "wonderful", adding: "Customers go to look at the $8 million they spent on the store, and then they come to us to shop."
Rupert Roberts described Fresh Market as offering a different type of product than Super Value, suggesting that for this r...

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AML Foods Limited fnancial results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended January 31st, 2012.

Nassau, Bahanas AML
Foods Limited today released unaudited financial results for its fourth
quarter and fiscal year ended January 31st, 2012.

Highlights for the quarter include:

o Net profit of $1.2m compared to $1.4m for the same quarter in the prior year;

o Sales increase of 17.9% or $4.63m over the same period in the previous year;

o Opening of AML Food's latest store and format, Solomon'...

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