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  • Grocery Industry Logistics Consortium Formed to Standardize Logistics

    DALLAS -- Supply network services provider One Network Enterprises said this week it has formed a consortium of retailers, suppliers, and carriers to define standard processes to streamline the flow of goods from suppliers through distribution centers to stores. The ONE Retail Standards Board features retailers, transportation service providers, and CPG companies.
  • Pet Ownership, Spending Higner Than Ever: Study

    GREENWICH, Conn. -- Pet product buyers and category managers have more opportunities than ever to grow the category in supermarkets, judging from the findings of a new study released by American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA).
  • IGA Names Winners of National Holiday Recipe Challenge

    CHICAGO -- The votes are in and counted, and IGA yesterday named the winners of its 2005 National Hometown Holidays Recipe Challenge. A panel of culinary chefs from the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago's Culinary Arts program chose the seven finalists' recipes, which were culled from more than 500 original submissions from shoppers to IGA stores across the United States during the annual marketing event, held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 13 last year.
  • Pet Ownership, Spending Higner Than Ever: Study

    GREENWICH, Conn. -- Pet product buyers and category managers have more opportunities than ever to grow the category in supermarkets, judging from the findings of a new study released by American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA).
  • IGA Names Winners of National Holiday Recipe Challenge

    CHICAGO -- The votes are in and counted, and IGA yesterday named the winners of its 2005 National Hometown Holidays Recipe Challenge. A panel of culinary chefs from the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago's Culinary Arts program chose the seven finalists' recipes, which were culled from more than 500 original submissions from shoppers to IGA stores across the United States during the annual marketing event, held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 13 last year.
  • Publix Lifts Ban on Online 'Cents Off' Coupons

    LAKELAND, Fla. -- Publix here has ended its ban on computer-generated "cents off" coupons, according to published reports. The regional chain was among several supermarkets that banned the coupons following a rash in 2003 of nationwide counterfeit coupons, which manufacturers found hard to detect and therefore refused to honor.
  • Publix Lifts Ban on Online 'Cents Off' Coupons

    LAKELAND, Fla. -- Publix here has ended its ban on computer-generated "cents off" coupons, according to published reports. The regional chain was among several supermarkets that banned the coupons following a rash in 2003 of nationwide counterfeit coupons, which manufacturers found hard to detect and therefore refused to honor.
  • Industry Seizes on New USDA Nutrition Guidelines

    WASHINGTON -- Some of the industry's major players wasted little time reacting publicly to yesterday's highly anticipated release of the United States Department of Agriculture's final nutrition guidance system.
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