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SALISBURY, N.C. -- In a move to add more high-quality, convenient items to its product mix, Food Lion here has begun offering Bertagni fresh filled pastas from Italy in more than 400 of its stores, via an exclusive partnership with Sterling Foods, Inc.

CARLISLE, Pa. -- A 65,000-square-foot Martin's Super Food Store will hold its official grand opening in Derby, N.Y. on Wednesday, Dec. 7. The store has been open to local shoppers since early October, but all of the new amenities, among them an expanded parking lot and the addition of fuel pumps, have now been completed.

SCARBOROUGH, Maine -- Hannaford Brothers Co. has successfully implemented the IBM System z9 mainframe as the nerve center of its on-demand supply chain for over 300 retail stores and five major distribution centers. The new system is the culmination of a three-year, $1.2-billion development effort involving 5,000 IBM engineers, software developers, and security experts worldwide.

SALISBURY, N.C. -- Ruth Kinzey, Food Lion's director of corporate communications, has joined participants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and leading utilities, state agencies, and energy consumers to lay the groundwork for a national Energy Efficiency Action Plan.

Gathering in aid of the needy is what it's all about for consultant Bill Kies and his grocery industry colleagues.

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands -- Royal Ahold yesterday reported a third-quarter net income loss of US $281.6 million (239 million euros), including a US $689.4 million (585 million euros) after-tax charge related to the international retailer's $1.1 billion settlement earlier this week with its shareholders in the wake of a profits overstatement scandal at the company's U.S. Foodservice unit.

QUINCY, Mass. -- As part of Royal Ahold's global IT outsourcing initiative, Ahold USA, Inc. here is spending $65 million in a five-year agreement to outsource its in-store technology services at its Stop & Shop and Giant-Landover stores.

NEW YORK -- Robert Henuset, a sales manager at Yardley, Pa.-based Crowley Foods, LLC, yesterday pleaded guilty in federal court here to one count of conspiracy related to an alleged accounting scandal at Ahold-owned U.S. Foodservice, according to published reports. U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff presided over the hearing.