Rainbow Foods

MINNEAPOLIS - Dale Riley, head of Roundy's ailing Rainbow Foods operations, based here, announced his resigation yesterday, according to published reports.

CHELMSFORD, Mass. - Roundy's, Inc. is upgrading its Kronos, Inc. solutions to centralize and optimize the deployment and tracking of its 17,000 retail operations and distribution center employees.

PEWAUKEE, Wis. - Roundy's here today said first-quarter retail sales for the period ended April 3, 2004 reached $717.8 million, an increase of 56.1 percent from the $459.7 million reported for 2003's first quarter.

EDINA, Minn. - Rainbow Foods here announced yesterday that it will open Leeann Chin carryout restaurants at two of its stores in July, with plans to put the eateries in at least another 10 supermarkets by the end of the year, the Pioneer Press reports.

MINNEAPOLIS - Grocery workers have ratified a new three-year contract with three major area supermarket chains that allows modest salary increases and doesn't require union members to pay health care premiums, according to the Associated Press.

Undaunted by today's intense competition, a number of creative independent operators are thriving on their innovation and their imagination.

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. - Supermarkets were one of the few sectors of the food industry actively acquiring or merging with other companies in the first half of 2003, the Food Institute reports. Supermarket companies racked up 20 deals -- up from 12 during the first six months of 2002.

DALLAS - Fleming Companies Inc. on Friday announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Wilmington, Del., approved agreements to sell 40 company-owned retail stores.