Grocery Retailers, Food Manufacturers Team Up For Ninth Annual Hunger Knows No Season Promotion

Chicago, IL - Purchases of specially marked items at six Chicago area grocery retailers will benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository between now and the end of May. The Hunger Knows No Season promotion brings together retailers and manufacturers to support hunger-relief programs while encouraging customers to get involved in the year-round fight against hunger in Cook County. Products marked with the promotion's distinctive yellow and green signs will be available at participating retailers including Centrella, Food 4 Less, Jewel-Osco, Meijer, Strack & Van Til and Ultra Foods. The promotion aims to raise more than $350,000 for the Food Depository's hunger-relief programs, which serve nearly 500,000 hungry men, women and children every year.

"With economic pressures mounting and costs rising, more of our neighbors are turning to the Greater Chicago Food Depository and its network of pantries, soup kitchens and shelters to help make ends meet," said Kate Maehr, executive director of the Greater Chicago Food Depository. "Everyone in Chicago can get involved and help the hungry by purchasing products through Hunger Knows No Season."

Participating brands include: Azteca, Barilla, Breyers, Brownberry Bread, Bumble Bee Foods, Creamette, Daisy, Eight O'Clock Coffee, Frigo, Gerber, Gorton's Frozen Fish, Hidden Valley, Hills Brothers Coffee, Hinckley Springs, Ice Mountain, KC Masterpiece, Kozy Shack, Lipton, Mars Ice Cream, Maruchan, McCormick Grinders, Mission Foods, Mott's, Pillsbury, Prince, Ragu, Smuckers and Starkist.

Media promotion for Hunger Knows No Season is generously provided by Tribune Company partners Chicago Magazine, Chicago Tribune, chicagosports.com, chicagotribune.com, CLTV, Hoy, Metromix.com, RedEye, WGN Radio and WGN Television. Through the years, Hunger Knows No Season has raised more than $2.81M to support the Greater Chicago Food Depository and its 600 member pantries, soup kitchens and shelters in the Chicago area.

SOURCE: Chicago Food Depository