Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

ATLANTA - CIES - The Food Business Forum is seeking to positively change the image of retail throughout the world, congregants at the international association's World Food Business Summit in Atlanta were told last week.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Acosta Sales and Marketing Company has completed the acquisition of four regional Canadian sales and marketing firms to create the strongest sales and marketing force in North America.

TORONTO - In a move which will expand its manufacturing and marketing capabilities into Mexico, soft drink maker Cott Corporation today announced it is acquiring a 90 percent stake in a new venture with Mexican bottler Embotelladora de Puebla, S.A. de C.V. (EPSA).

DALLAS - Wholesale food distributor Fleming on Tuesday announced that the acquisition of Core-Mark International Inc. has been completed.

BOSTON and LONDON - CPG manufacturers and grocery retailers in Britain are shifting their focus from CPFR and public exchanges to event management, private exchanges, and in-store logistics, according to a study by Insight Research, the London-based market research firm.

BRUSSELS, Belgium and WASHINGTON - New efforts to regulate tobacco sales to minors are gaining ground in both Europe and the United States as the EU and a group of US Senators separately announce new agendas.

PITTSBURGH - Specialty food retailer Trader Joe's is reportedly eyeing the Pittsburgh market as it continues its growth plans on the East Coast, the Pittsburgh Business Times reports.

FORT WORTH, Texas - Marketing Management Inc., an agent for suppliers nationwide for store brand products, said Thursday that it had received a complaint filed in federal court in Virginia from Ahold USA Holdings Inc.