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Short Take: Keane inks deal with food giant

IT consulting firm Keane has signed a five-year, multimillion dollar applications outsourcing contract with Minneapolis-based food distributor and retailer Supervalu. Under the contract, Keane will build, revamp, and support applications for Supervalu. Keane's Minneapolis branch office team will manage the project. Supervalu is the nation's largest food distributor to supermarkets and the 11th largest food retailer in the country.

Kim Girard
Kim Girard has written about business and technology for more than a decade, as an editor at CNET News.com, senior writer at Business 2.0 magazine and online writer at Red Herring. As a freelancer, she's written for publications including Fast Company, CIO and Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She also assisted Business Week's Peter Burrows with his 2003 book Backfire, which covered the travails of controversial Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina. An avid cook, she's blogged about the joy of cheap wine and thinks about food most days in ways some find obsessive.
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Kim Girard
IT consulting firm has signed a five-year, multimillion dollar applications outsourcing contract with Minneapolis-based food distributor and retailer Supervalu. Under the contract, Keane will build, revamp, and support applications for Supervalu. Keane's Minneapolis branch office team will manage the project. Supervalu is the nation's largest food distributor to supermarkets and the 11th largest food retailer in the country.