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America’s love of sweets is coming of age. Consumers are more sophisticated and demanding when it comes to confections, according to “Confections and Dessert: Culinary Trend Mapping Report” from the Center for Culinary Development (CCD) and Packaged Facts.
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South African retailer Friendly Stores plans to deploy centralized hosted signage solutions at its supermarket and convenience store operations.
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Bill Moncovich, president of California Giant Berry Farms, will appear in a 30-second television commercial scheduled to run several times on March 19, 2010.
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The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) will hold its inaugural Supermarket Health & Wellness Conference, May 11 through May 13, 2010, in conjunction with FMI 2010, at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
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Target yesterday launched a scannable mobile coupon program that allows users to receive exclusive offers directly on their mobile phones and redeem them by scanning a bar code on the phone at checkout.
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Although meat department tonnage was up significantly in 2009, profits are lagging as shoppers opt for less expensive value-oriented cuts, according to results revealed in the fifth edition of the joint “Power of Meat” study.
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A major part of the 97,000-square-foot Harrisburg, Pa., Giant Super Food Store’s energy savings and reduced carbon footprint comes from the cutting-edge refrigeration systems from Conyers, Ga.-based Hill PHOENIX.
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Dos Equis, the fastest-growing import beer brand in the United States, and Cerveza Tecate has rolled out the ‘Cinco Ways to Celebrate’ Cinco de Mayo/spring program, which is designed to inspire adult consumers to celebrate creatively as it helps boost beer sales during April and May.
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation supported by the California Grocers Association (CGA) that aims to restore the state’s Beverage Container Recycling Program and Fund to solvency through June.
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Supervalu, Inc. has sold its Payson Store Fixtures division to Boston-based DGS Retail Inc. for an undisclosed amount, according to Quazar Capital Corp., the Minneapolis-based investment banking firm that represented Payson on the deal.
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Acute foodborne illnesses cost the United States about $152 billion annually in health care, workplace and other economic losses, a recent report published by the Washington-based Produce Safety Project (PSP) has found.
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Bi-Lo has teamed up with Austin, Texas-based analytic services firm Spire to enhance its ability to leverage shopper card data and generate actionable insights across the organization.
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Safeway, Inc. and its exclusive Lucerne brand of dairy products have revealed the names of 30 students chosen as finalists to compete for a $30,000 grand prize in the Lucerne The Art of Dairy “Taste of Moo-sic” Art Contest.
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Internet grocer Peapod has joined forces with Chicago-based sustainable communities group Neighbor Capital and food desert researcher Mari Gallagher to look at ways to expand delivery to communities where a dearth of full-service grocery stores makes it difficult to obtain quality fresh food.
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Sunbury, Pa.-based regional independent Weis Markets’ Hanover, Pa., store has earned silver certification from the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, a voluntary Environmental Protection Agency alliance with food retailers to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate change.
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C.H. Robinson Worldwide, one of the largest global logistics and transportation providers, has earned a spot on Fortune’s 2010 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list, and additionally ranked first in the “Trucking, Transportation and Logistics” category.
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Ghirardelli Squares Chocolate has rolled out the Million Moments of Timeless Pleasure sweepstakes, which asks consumers to share their favorite “Ghirardelli moment” for the opportunity to win a trip or one of literally thousands of chocolate prizes.
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All Things Organic, the organic community’s biggest business and educational conference in North America, will co-locate with Natural Products Expo East, according to the Organic Trade Association (OTA) which added that the events would be held together for at least seven years.
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The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) has chosen Global Trust Certification, Ltd. to perform an independent third-party certification of Alaska’s fisheries management systems.
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Unionized workers have approved new contracts with Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. after months of negotiations, averting a threatened strike, according to published reports.
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SmartNow, a provider of health-and-wellness information to the health care industry, corporations and consumers, last week launched a comprehensive nutritional grocery guide for the iPhone with more than 100,000 unique, branded products categorized.
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The National Pork Board (NPB) has expanded its commitment to retailers by the virtue of going virtual.
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Business solution provider ECRM and private brand sales and marketing firm Daymon Worldwide will join forces for ECRM’s Private Brand Foods EPP event, scheduled for April 11 through April 14, 2010, in Orlando, Fla.
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Food Lion, LLC banners and sister Delhaize Group division Bottom Dollar Food have joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s list of Energy Star Leaders, a select group of organizations that have improved energy efficiency across all of their sites.
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Duane Reade’s new location in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City marks the debut of greatly expanded fresh food and grocery sections offering such items as fresh sandwiches, single-serve entrees, baked goods and freshly packed salads and vegetables.
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 Another First for Women
LUNA, maker of the Whole Nutrition Bar for Women, has now introduced LUNA Protein, the first women’s high-protein bar made with entirely natural and organic ingredients.
 Tyson’s Cooking in the Deli
Tyson Foods has whipped up a line of complete meal entrées for supermarket deli departments across the United States.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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