JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. today announced four new directors in its restructured marketing department: Joanne Gage, Larry Beck, Judy L. Holland, and John Opasinski.
HOUSTON - Albertson's is closing five stores in the Houston area and is expected to sell another five stores to Safeway in the final step of its exit from that market, the Houston Chronicle reports.
YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. - Wal-Mart plans to spend $40 million to build a more than 800,000-square-foot food-distribution center in Grandview, Wash., the Yakima Herald-Republic reports.
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's National Food Administration today reported scientists' findings that some carbohydrate-rich foods contain alarmingly high quantities of a substance believed to cause cancer, Reuters reports.
MEMPHIS - ACH Food Companies Inc. today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Unilever's Mazola branded cooking oil and corn products business in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico for $360 million
WINDSOR, Conn. - A new survey measuring shoppers' preferences for grocery circular advertising was revealed today at the FMI Advertising/Marketing Executive Conference in Miami Beach, Fla.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Harris Teeter is introducing Harris Teeter Naturals, a line of natural and organic private label products, in celebration of Earth Day.
