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CINCINNATI -- ECR consulting and training firm the Partnering Group here announced yesterday the passing of Tim Flannigan, a managing partner and business center leader for TPG's Retail Strategy and Business Planning Practice. Flannigan, who was 53, died on March 25.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Kroger, Publix, and 14 other supermarket chains have joined forces with major organic food brands to launch an unprecedented $1 million marketing campaign, called "Go Organic! For Earth Day," this April, designed to drive mainstream consumer awareness, in-store traffic, and sales for organic food.

KERRVILLE, Texas -- The spread of the good-for-you private label movement continues, this time with respected specialty merchandiser H-E-B Central Market throwing its hat into the ring.

MINNEAPOLIS - Supervalu said yesterday it has named Roger Davidson corporate s.v.p. and c.o.o., retail food companies.

Childhood obesity is a complex problem, but supermarkets can be part of the solution.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - H.E. Butt Grocery Co. said Wednesday that it will realign about 100 administrative positions, with more than half of those employees expected to lose their jobs, according to a report published in the San Antonio Express-News.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The H.E. Butt Grocery Co., headquartered here, has teamed up with the Texas Lottery Commission, which is in the process of installing self-service touchscreen lottery dispensers at about approximately 200 of the supermarket chain's stores across Texas.

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart de Mexico SA (Walmex), after gaining about half of supermarket sales in the Mexico City area, has announced plans to expand into northern Mexico -- where it will come up against San Antonio-based H.E. Butt Grocery Co., which first opened shop there seven years earlier and is now planning to add 20 more stores, Bloomberg reports.