Enemies among meat companies

Boar's Head Provisions, the nationwide deli meat company with a corporate headquarters in Sarasota, has found itself in a food fight with a competitor.

That foe, Philadelphia-based Dietz & Watson, claims that individual distributors of Boar's Head meats and products wrecked a series of customer events the company was putting on in the parking lots of five grocery stores in Charlotte and Lee counties the weekend of Dec. 4.

Dietz & Watson executives say Boar's Head people drove a convoy of at least 40 large red and black corporate trucks to the events. Once there, the Boar's Head crews honked loud horns and tried to verbally intimidate customers from trying Dietz & Watson products, Dietz & Watson executives claim.