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  • Conagra Completes Sale of Cooks Ham To Smithfield

    OMAHA, Neb. -- On the heels of finalizing the sale of its seafood businesses, ConAgra Foods Inc. has now completed divestiture of its Cook's ham business to Smithfield Foods, Inc.

  • Food Lion Campaign Benefits Children's Miracle Network

    SALISBURY, N.C. -- Now through April 30, all 1,215 Food Lion stores are conducting the "Food Lion for the Children" campaign to raise money for the Children's Miracle Network (CMN). Food Lion customers can participate by purchasing paper CMN balloons for $1 each.

  • HEB's 'Share Your Holidays' Drive Delivers $50,000 to The Houston Food Bank

    HOUSTON -- Last week representatives from H.E. Butt Grocery Co. here presented the Houston Food Bank with a check for $50,000, the total amount raised during its "Share Your Holidays" drive.

  • Canada's Provigo Banners Cut Plastic Bag Use

    SAINT-LAURENT, Que. -- The grocery banners of Provigo, Inc., based here -- Loblaws, Maxi & Cie, Maxi, Provigo, L'intermarché, Axep, and Club Entrepôt Provigo -- have joined with the Quebec Environment Foundation (QEF) to help reduce the use of plastic bags in their 456 stores throughout the province.

  • Price Chopper Parent Lauded for College-Level Certification Program

    SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Golub Corp. here, the parent company of Price Chopper supermarkets, was among four recipients of awards recognizing their partnership with Hudson Valley Community College. The awards were presented at the annual meeting of the New York Community College Trustees of the State University of New York, held March 31 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

  • Judge Increases Family Dollar Penalty to $33.2 Million

    MATTHEWS, N.C. -- Discount chain Family Dollar Stores, Inc. here has been hit with a higher penalty in a heated labor case. A federal judge in Alabama has increased the amount the retailer must pay to $33.2 million for allegedly classifying certain employees as salaried managers and making them ineligible for overtime pay.

  • Goldman Sachs Vice Chair to Keynote at Daymon Forum

    NEW YORK -- Bob Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International and chairman of the Advisory Board of the Global Markets Institute, will be the keynote speaker at The Daymon Worldwide Forum on May 5 at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, Daymon Associates said yesterday.

  • Mollie Stone's to Open Remodeled Store This Month

    MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Local independent chain Mollie Stone's plans to open its eighth store in the Twin Peaks neighborhood of San Francisco April 26.
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