Supermarket & Grocery Industry News

PLANO, Texas - In a move designed to reinforce its position as the "brother-in-arms" to the independent grocer, StoreNext Retail Technologies LLC this month launched its Declaration for Independents campaign.

Men's HBC products offer tremendous potential for growth -- if they're managed correctly.

Sales and merchandising may center on the winter holidays, but the time is always right for an exciting hors d'oeuvres assortment.

WASHINGTON - Although the Food and Drug Administration has made many improvements to the proposed bioterrorism regulations, "there is still room for more, especially with concern to prior notice and record-keeping," Susan Stout, v.p. of federal affairs for the Grocery Manufacturers of America, said in testimony before the Health Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee late last week.

MINNEAPOLIS - National food retailer and distributor Nash Finch Co. said yesterday that the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota has dismissed with prejudice the securities class action filed against the company and some of its executive officers in June 2003, which consolidated eight separate class actions previously filed in late 2002 and early 2003.

CHICAGO - IGA said yesterday it has partnered with 50 Below, a Duluth, Minn.-based Web provider, to create a Web site for every IGA supermarket in the United States and the Caribbean.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. has won its third consecutive Golden Penguin Award, given by the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA) in recognition of the promotional efforts of the frozen food industry during March National Frozen Food Month, the organization has announced.

WASHINGTON - Congress' four-year renewal of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program with provisions designed to reduce costs for consumers, assure access to WIC products, and put a stop to the counterfeiting and illegal sale of infant formula has earned the hearty approval of the Food Marketing Institute.