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- 8/22/2001
McCain Foods, Heinz to Acquire Anchor Food Products
McCain Foods Limited will acquire the production facilities and food service business of Anchor Food Products Inc. in a three-party transaction. H.J. Heinz Company will purchase the company's branded products sold to retail outlets, including supermarkets and club stores. - 8/22/2001
Nestle Says Emerging Markets Help It Show Rise in Profits
Nestle, the world's biggest food company, said today that sales ofits packaged food increased in emerging markets, compensating for slower growth in the United Statesand in Western Europe and helping to lift first-half profit 13 percent. - 8/22/2001
New eMarketer Report Declares Online Advertising is Alive and Well
Despite recast projections from numerous research organizations, thenew Online Advertising Report forecasts that online advertisingspending is holding its own and will continue to grow steadilyover the next several years. - 8/22/2001
Raley's Selects IBM e-Infrastructure Technology For Next-Generation e-Business
IBM announced that supermarket chain Raley's expects to save $3 million over the next five years by standardizing its next-generation applications on IBM's e-infrastructure technology. - 8/22/2001
Candy Producer Brach's Starts Phase Out of Chicago Plant
Candy producer Brach's Confections Inc.is starting the phased shutdown of its Chicagomanufacturing plant, sending pink slips to 29workers who must leave the company by Oct. 20. - 8/21/2001
Online Grocer Peapod Eliminates Free Deliveries in Boston, Chicago
Aug. 22--Now that it has the grocery home delivery market to itself in the Boston area, Peapod Inc. iseliminating free deliveries in a bid to boost its profitability. - 8/21/2001
Flowers Bakeries Becomes Latest Supplier to Select viaLink for Data Synchronization
The viaLink Company (Nasdaq:VLNK - news) today announced that FlowersBakeries, a super-regional baking company and subsidiary of Flowers Foods (NYSE:FLO - news), will use viaLink's syncLink(SM)for product, price and promotion synchronization. - 8/21/2001
Publix Deploys CA'S Unicenter to Centrally Manage Diverse Business Environment
Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) on Wednesday announced that Publix Super Markets is deploying Unicenter to centrally monitor its IT infrastructure, speed problem resolution and increase system performance across its distributed retail computing environments. - 8/21/2001
Kmart Corp's Bluelight.com Inks Pact with Global Sports
Kmart Corporation's (NYSE:KM) Bluelight.com subsidiarytoday announced that they have signed an e-commerce agreement with Global Sports(NASDAQ:GSPT) to provide services for the company's online shopping site. - 8/21/2001
ACNielsen Signs Hannaford Brothers to Category Business Planner Contract
ACNielsen U.S., an operating unit of ACNielsen, a VNU company, on Wednesday announced Hannaford Bros. Co. has joined the list of retailers whose product sales information will be included on its new Category Business Planner (CBP) category management intelligence system.