Direct Store Delivery (DSD)

JASPER, Ind. - Buehler Foods, Indiana¿s largest privately owned independent retail food company, has selected viaLink¿s scan-based trading (SBT) solution to enhance visibility and drive profitability to trading partners across its supply chain.

CARTERET, N.J. - Pathmark Stores, Inc. is upgrading its merchandising database with the SignIQ workflow to facilitate the printing of shelf-edge labels and other in-store signage.

CHANTILLY, Va. - Ahold USA plans to use Dallas-based viaLink, a provider of e-commerce services to the retail supply chain, to enhance its supply chain visibility and enable scan-based trading with its suppliers.

TORONTO - CoolBrands International Inc., a leader in the consumer products and franchising segments of the frozen dessert industry, said yesterday that it had acquired from Parmalat the Kinnet Dairy DSD ice cream distribution business located mainly in Georgia, with additional distribution coverage in parts of Alabama and South Carolina.

SIKESTON, Mo. - Food Giant Supermarkets, based here, has chosen TCI direct store delivery (DSD) and POS Exchange solutions -- in correlation with TCI store solutions -- for its 90 supermarkets.

CHICAGO - Littlefield, Texas-based Lowe's Food Stores, Inc. has selected StoreNext Retail Technologies, LLC's Connected Services as its preferred hosting solution. Initially, Lowe's will use StoreNext's Connected Item Hosting and Connected Direct Store Delivery (C-DSD) applications. The announcement was made at the 2004 FMI Show here.

TORONTO - CoolBrands International, Inc. has entered into an agreement with Unilever Ice Cream to distribute Unilever's branded ice cream and related frozen dessert products.

TUCSON, Ariz. - Lund Food Holdings Inc., parent company of Lunds and Byerly's, has chosen TCI HQ and TCI Store from TCI Solutions Inc. as their enterprise-wide pricing and inventory management solution.