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CAMDEN, N.J. -- Campbell Soup Co., the world's largest soup company here, yesterday unveiled a major initiative to cut sodium in its soups and beverages. The company will offer new versions of its top-selling soups and reformulate some of its existing soups and beverages with less sodium.

QUINCY, Mass. -- The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. and Giant Food, LLC said yesterday they have reached a new five-year agreement with Seattle-based Starbucks Coffee Co. to open Starbucks licensed stores inside their supermarkets.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Building on the success of the Hispanic-centric format it introduced last spring, Publix Super Markets here is planning to open two additional Sabor units in Miami. The move will boost the Publix Sabor count to four.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Publix Super Markets here has expanded its assortment of regionally-produced White Oak Pastures premium grass-fed ground beef in 220 stores in North Georgia, North Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Marsh Supermarkets here posted a third-quarter net loss of $9.6 million, or $1.22 a share, compared with a year-earlier net profit of $2.7 million, or 34 cents a share.

SKOKIE, Ill. -- Topco Associates has acquired BrainTree Sourcing, a company that specializes in the procurement of Not-For-Resale ("NFR") goods and services, from Ahold USA.

MINNEAPOLIS -- Discount retailer Target Corp. here said that as part of its intensifying battle against chief rival Wal-Mart, it plans to expand its food offerings. The 1,239-unit discounter said it will incorporate larger food sections into most of its stores which, when the project is complete, will have as much as 50 percent more space for food than is now typical.

KEENE, N.H. -- C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. here said Friday that it has recently made donations to various nonprofit organizations involved in combating hunger.