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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.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - United Fresh Fruit & Vegetable Association here has announced the produce industry leaders nominated to serve on its 2004 board of directors.

SAN ANTONIO - Rich Catanzaro, director of seafood merchandising, procurement and new product development at H.E. Butt Grocery Co., was killed last weekend after losing control of his snowmobile at a turn in a trail and striking a tree while vacationing with his family in Breckinridge, Colo.