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- 9/5/2001
Pathmark Announces Strong Second Quarter and Six-Months Sales
Pathmark Stores Inc. reports results for its second quarter and six-month period ended August 4, 2001. Sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2001 were $997.7 million, up 7.3% from the $929.6 million in the prior year second quarter. - 9/4/2001
Northern California Clerks and Meatcutter Union Reaches Agreement with Area Retailers
United Food and Commercial Workers 588-Northern California today announced that it had reached tentative Agreement on a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement for its over 7,000 members who work in area Raley's, Bel Air and Nob Hill Foods supermarkets. - 9/4/2001
Data Ventures Lands Analytics for Coca-Cola North America's Loyalty Program
Data Ventures LLC, a leading data analytics anddecision support company in the consumer packaged goods industry (CPG), announced on Wednesday a three-year contract with Coca-Cola North America (CCNA). Data Ventures will provide data warehousing and analytics to Coca-Cola North America's loyalty card data analysis and consulting services with major grocery retailers. - 9/4/2001
Government Figures Show Grocers Aren't Passing Sugar Savings on to Consumers
New government figures reveal that, while the priceAmerican farmers receive for their sugar has been running at its lowest level in more than two decades, the big grocers nationwide have jacked up the price they charge consumers for sugar to a 20-year high. - 9/4/2001
Florida Leaders Say Diet Foods are 'Massive Fraud' on Consumers
Calling it a "massive fraud" perpetrated against consumers, a Florida state senator and the state's Agriculture and Consumer Services commissioner on Tuesday said that all 67 products sampled in a sweep of area diet food shops had inaccurate or illegal labels. - 9/4/2001
Purina Mills Stockholders Approve Merger
Purina Mills Inc. announced on Wednesday that its stockholders have approved Purina Mills proposed merger with a subsidiary of Land O'Lakes. - 9/3/2001
Fleming Drives Growth with Transactions in Southwest
Fleming on Tuesday announced that it has completed the series of transactions that places former Furrs Supermarkets locations into the hands of new retail operators and creates approximately $175 million in distribution revenue for its Lubbock, Texas distribution facility. - 9/3/2001
Supermarket Giants Avoid Damaging Strike
Two of the nation's leading supermarket retailers avoided a potentially crippling strike over the weekend when more than 22,000 employees of Albertson's and Safeway agreed to extend their contracts until midnight Sept. 8. - 9/3/2001
Albertson's Second Quarter Earnings Exceed Targets
Albertson's Inc., one of the world's largest food and drug retailers, on Tuesday reported second-quarter earnings that exceeded both company guidance and First Call consensus estimates. Sales in the quarter totaled almost $9.6 billion. - 9/3/2001
iTN and Provision X Announce Strategic Alliance
Provision X and iTradeNetwork (iTN) are a step closer to fulfilling their charter as the online meat products marketplace through an alliance that could generate $6 billion in transactions over the next 18 months.