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The Skogen family has been in the grocery business for almost 75 years, ever since Paul and Jane Skogen borrowed $500 and opened a 3,000-square-foot store attached to their house in Onalaska. In that entire span, nothing even comes close to equaling the turmoil facing society now as people try to come to grips with a global pandemic and ...
Festival Foods is a family owned grocery company operating stores throughout Wisconsin. It was founded as Skogen's IGA by Paul and Jane Skogen in 1946 in Onalaska, Wisconsin, and is still owned by the Skogen family. [5] Festival's private label brands are supplied by SuperValu, with the majority under their Essential Everyday label.
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After Paul passed away in 1976, his son, Dave, along with his wife, Barb, and brothers, Gary and Tom, oversaw company operations. The Skogen family identified a shifting trend in consumer buying habits and decided a change of store format was best for the company’s future. On June 29, 1990, they opened their first Festival Foods store in ...
Jan 12, 2004 · I say, 'Here, in this one store in Onalaska we do a $1 million worth of business in a week. One percent of that is $10,000. This is what we lose.' "Sometimes, I'll pass the dummied-up money...
Mark’s grandfather, Paul Skogen, opened the family’s first grocery store in Onalaska, Wisconsin, in 1946. Mark’s father Dave, along with his mother Barb, grew the small chain of Independent Grocers Alliance (IGA) stores in the 70s and 80s and then introduced the family business to the large-store grocery format of Festival Foods in 1990.
Aug 13, 2021 · For Mark Skogen, There Was No Pandemic Playbook The Skogen family has been in the grocery business for almost 75 years, ever since Paul and Jane Skogen borrowed $500 and opened a 3,000-square-foot store attached to their house in Onalaska.
Jul 28, 2014 · Skogen, president and CEO of Skogen's Festival Foods, was named Grocer of the Year by the Wisconsin Grocers Association, an honor his father, Dave Skogen, received in 2005.
