Las Vegas Three Square Food Bank Receives More Than 100-Thousand Pounds of Food From...

Las Vegas Three Square Food Bank Receives More Than 100-Thousand Pounds of
Food From FMI Show Plus MARKETECHNICS(R) and United Fresh Market

CHICAGO, May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Las Vegas Three Square Food
Bank received 118,000 pounds of food donated by exhibitors from the Food
Marketing Institute (FMI) Show plus MARKETECHNICS(R) and United Fresh Market
held in Las Vegas, NV, May 4 to 7.

The donation equals roughly 92,000 meals, including milk, bread, produce,
cereal, luncheon meats, cheese and other items found in a typical supermarket
to help feed area residents who are living on the brink of hunger, according
to America's Second Harvest -- The Nation's Food Bank Network.

The FMI Show -- one of the largest food trade events in the world -- was held
at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. More than two million pounds of food
have been donated to food banks from this event since the partnership with
America's Second Harvest began in 1996.

"This is the by far the biggest single day donation this food bank will
receive this year," said Vicki Escarra, president and CEO of America's Second
Harvest. "There was enormous effort involved in rescuing this food and getting
it from the convention center to the food bank. We are extremely grateful to
everyone who volunteered and made this happen."

"FMI has a long standing commitment to helping feed the hungry in America,"
said Tim Hammonds, president and CEO of FMI. "Our members and Show exhibitors
have always been very generous in supporting food banks and we are proud to
help coordinate this effort."

"We feed more than 25 million Americans every year who live in food insecure
households -- who don't always know where they will find their next meal. We
simply could not do this without the very generous help of the food industry.
They give us hundreds of millions of pounds of food every year. If they were
not here to help us, we simply wouldn't exist, and millions of Americans would
go hungry," said Vicki Escarra.

America's Second Harvest -- The Nation's Food Bank Network is the largest
charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through
its network of more than 200 member food banks, America's Second Harvest
annually provides assistance to more than 25 million people in need, including
more than 9 million children and nearly 3 million seniors in all 50 states,
the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each year, America's Second Harvest
secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of food and grocery
products to support feeding programs at approximately 63,000 local charitable
agencies, including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters,
after-school programs, and Kids Cafes. To learn more, please visit
www.secondharvest.org.

Food Marketing Institute (FMI) conducts programs in research, education,
industry relations and public affairs on behalf of its 1,500 member companies
-- food retailers and wholesalers -- in the United States and around the
world. FMI's U.S. members operate approximately 26,000 retail food stores with
a combined annual sales volume of $680 billion -- three-quarters of all retail
food store sales in the United States. FMI's retail membership is composed of
large multi-store chains, regional firms and independent supermarkets. Its
international membership includes 200 companies from more than 50 countries.

SOURCE America's Second Harvest

Ross Fraser of America's Second Harvest, +1-312-641-6422; or Kathleen Thomas
of Food Marketing Institute, +1-202-220-0616