Nonfoods

WASHINGTON -- To mark its 70th anniversary, the National Nutritional Foods Association here said yesterday that it has changed its name to the Natural Products Association.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores, Inc. here is delaying the opening of its new Hispanic-centric Carnival flagship store due to construction delays, s.v.p. of strategy and marketing Poul Heilmann told Progressive Grocer on Friday.

COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores, Inc. here is delaying the opening of its new Hispanic-centric Carnival flagship store due to construction delays, s.v.p. of strategy and marketing Poul Heilmann told Progressive Grocer on Friday.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- CVS Corp. here said yesterday that it agreed to purchase Minneapolis-based MinuteClinic, the largest provider of retail-based health clinics in the United States. MinuteClinic will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of CVS.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Average manufacturer payments for unsaleables dipped slightly to 1.05 percent of sales from 1.13 percent between 2004 and 2005, according to The 2006 Unsaleables Benchmark Report, released yesterday at the Joint Unsaleables Conference here by the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Food Marketing Institute.