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  • Retailers Hold Balance of Power: Cannondale

    According to the 2009 Category Management Study released by sales and marketing management consulting and software solutions firm Cannondale Associates, the balance of power between manufacturers and retailers has shifted toward retailers, and this trend is expected to continue.
  • Denver’s Tony’s Market Opens

    The new Tony’s Market & Bistro in downtown Denver held a grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday for its first location in the city and fourth location. Mayor John Hickenlooper presided over the festivities. In addition to marking the grand opening of the new market, the event kicked off a day of fundraising in recognition of the mayor’s fight to end homelessness.
  • EXPERT INSIGHT: Rethinking Center Store: 6 Ways to Innovate

    While retailers continue to adjust the scope, product offerings, design, and merchandising of their store perimeters, center store has remained basically unchanged for decades.
  • NUTRITION: Kellogg Compiles Consumer ‘FIBER-pe-dia’

    After a recent Kellogg Co. survey revealed that consumers don’t know where to find fiber, and mistakenly believe that products containing “whole grain” provide it, the Battle Creek, Mich.-based manufacturer decided to take decisive action. Its solution: FIBER-pe-dia.
  • ONLINE COLUMN: Independent Standouts

    Six years ago, I began researching a book I planned to write about the best, most successful independent retailers in America. As I traveled around the country visiting stores, I asked shoppers and other retailers which stores they thought were the best. As you can imagine, I heard about a lot of stores. But three food stores more than any others repeatedly got the highest praise. They were Jungle Jim’s International Market in Fairfield, Ohio; A Southern Season in Chapel Hill, N.C.; and Zabar’s in New York.
  • Winning Team

    Winning Colours Stain Remover, a brand of Winning Brands Corp., a Barrie, Ontario-based manufacturer and marketer of eco-responsible cleaning solutions, will be available in the U.S. grocery channel this summer.
  • Turn Back Time

    Antioxidant Blend combines four fruits -- dried cherries, plums, wild blueberries and cranberries -- that work to prevent or slow the oxidative damage done by free radicals in the body, according to the supplier, Yuba City, Ariz.-based Sunsweet Growers, Inc.
  • Retailers Honored for Supply Chain Efforts

    Safeway, Wal-Mart, and Rite Aid were among the retailers recognized for their supply chain collaboration efforts during the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association (VICS)/U Connect Annual Conference held last week at the Orlando World Center Marriott Resort.
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