Trading Partners

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Broadway Marketplace, a group of independent high-end specialty markets in one location here, will send special savings links to customers' cell phones next week through a customized, cardless loyalty program.

SALISBURY, N.C. -- Cathy Green, a supermarket veteran who was named an s.v.p. of retail operations at Food Lion here just over a month ago, has now moved even further up the corporate ladder, this time to the role of chief operating officer.

MODESTO, Calif. -- Save Mart Supermarkets here plans to launch a Web-based platform for promotion allowance management to more effectively collaborate with its suppliers, lower process costs, and improve communications with trading partners.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Natural Products Expo East is returning to its roots next year, as the popular organic and natural products trade show relocates its annual East Coast expo to Baltimore, and simultaneously joins forces with the National Nutritional Foods Association East (NNFA East) to boost natural products retailer presence.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Beginning in February, H.E. Butt Grocery Co. plans to handle it's own in-store food demonstrations, shifting the work from an outsourced marketing services firm to its own employees that it will train for the task.

Tons of high-margin HBC products are overlooked by most supermarkets because buyers are hamstrung into choosing only the obvious.

Premium soups are satisfying consumers' tastes for better quality and convenience.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. -- Record high gasoline prices are leading large numbers of consumers to change how they shop and spend their income, with many people combining errands, eating out less often, and doing more at home, according to the findings from a new survey from ACNielsen, the leading provider of consumer and marketplace information.