Costco Wholesale Corp.

NEW YORK -- Almost two dozen retailers large and small -- Wal-Mart, Kroger, Target, CVS, Costco, Trader Joe's, Harris Teeter, ShopRite, Lund Food Holdings among them --will receive Salute to Excellence Awards at the 2007 Private Label Manufacturers Association Trade Show scheduled for Nov. 11 to Nov. 13 in Chicago. The awards are presented each year for outstanding new products offered by retailers under their own store brands.

NEW YORK -- Almost two dozen retailers large and small -- Wal-Mart, Kroger, Target, CVS, Costco, Trader Joe's, Harris Teeter, ShopRite, Lund Food Holdings among them --will receive Salute to Excellence Awards at the 2007 Private Label Manufacturers Association Trade Show scheduled for Nov. 11 to Nov. 13 in Chicago. The awards are presented each year for outstanding new products offered by retailers under their own store brands.

NEW YORK -- Almost two dozen retailers large and small -- Wal-Mart, Kroger, Target, CVS, Costco, Trader Joe's, Harris Teeter, ShopRite, Lund Food Holdings among them --will receive Salute to Excellence Awards at the 2007 Private Label Manufacturers Association Trade Show scheduled for Nov. 11 to Nov. 13 in Chicago. The awards are presented each year for outstanding new products offered by retailers under their own store brands.

ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- Costco Wholesale Corp. here recently received the Merchandiser of the Year Award from the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association, based in Maitland, Fla.

ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- Costco Wholesale Corp. here recently received the Merchandiser of the Year Award from the Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association, based in Maitland, Fla.

ISSAQUAH, Wash. - Soaring temperatures and mortgage rates were the main culprits of membership wholesale club Costco Wholesale Corp.'s disappointing same-store sales performance of 2 percent for August performance, which fell below analysts' expectations and led to its stock seeing its biggest slip in two years, ending the day at $59, 4.2 percent down from Tuesday's closing price.

DENVER -- Aurora Organic Dairy, one of the nation's largest organic milk producers that supplies milk to leading supermarkets and natural foods stores, has been ordered to reduce its herd to comply with grazing rules under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to published reports.

DENVER -- Aurora Organic Dairy, one of the nation's largest organic milk producers that supplies milk to leading supermarkets and natural foods stores, has been ordered to reduce its herd to comply with grazing rules under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to published reports.