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  • New Fresh & Easy Promo: Drink Wine, Save Trees
    In recognition of this year’s Earth Day, Tesco’s Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is running a wine promotion in which, for each bottle of award-winning ONEHOPE Sauvignon Blanc Wine purchased at Fresh & Easy, American Forests, a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental restoration, will plant a tree in areas devastated by wildfires.

  • U.S. Coffee Buying Trends Buck Overall Frugality
    As upscale coffee is seen by consumers as a relatively inexpensive luxury, sales of the item continue to thrive even as many other industries suffer from consumer cutbacks on nonessential purchases, according to new market research by New York-based Packaged Facts.

  • Topco Adds SVP/Innovation Exec
    Glenn Backus, a former HEB Grocery Co. and Supervalu executive, has joined Topco Associates, LLC in a newly created position as its SVP of innovation, in which capacity he will be responsible for overseeing all facets of innovation in product, packaging and branding.

  • Organic Valley Heads Back to School
    With the back-to-school season coming up soon, Organic Valley is offering retailers across the United States “The Future is Organic,” a turnkey, cause-related campaign that will provide schools with educational materials to teach children about how food, health and the environment are all connected.

  • FMI to Hold First H&W Conference in May
    The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) will hold its inaugural Supermarket Health & Wellness Conference, May 11 through May 13, 2010, in conjunction with FMI 2010, at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

  • Sophisticated Consumers Create New Confections Trends
    America’s love of sweets is coming of age. Consumers are more sophisticated and demanding when it comes to confections, according to “Confections and Dessert: Culinary Trend Mapping Report” from the Center for Culinary Development (CCD) and Packaged Facts.

  • Schwarzenegger Signs Calif. Beverage-recycling Relief Bill
    Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation supported by the California Grocers Association (CGA) that aims to restore the state’s Beverage Container Recycling Program and Fund to solvency through June.

  • New Giant Store Showcases Hill PHOENIX Refrigeration Systems
    A major part of the 97,000-square-foot Harrisburg, Pa., Giant Super Food Store’s energy savings and reduced carbon footprint comes from the cutting-edge refrigeration systems from Conyers, Ga.-based Hill PHOENIX.
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