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  • Are Value-Themed Ads Making an Impact?

    Advertisers are aiming to reach the value-minded consumer with creative advertising executions that deliver recession-themed messaging. Nielsen IAG examined 67 value-themed ads across 11 national advertisers and found that breakthrough retention rates were not as expected.

  • ‘Smart Choices’ Nutrition Initiative Launched

    In the latest example of the food industry’s close attention to health-and-wellness issues affecting consumers, the “Smart Choices Program” made its official debut yesterday, its green check mark symbol now appearing on of hundreds of products in supermarkets and other retailers across the United States.

  • Parents Worried About Kids’ After-School Snacks: Survey

    The often novel snacking choices of children are a big concern for parents, who want to make sure their offspring nosh more nutritiously between meals, according to a survey commission by Saint Simons Island, Ga.-based frozen snack manufacturer Farm Rich, a Rich Products Corp. brand.

  • Stop & Shop, New England Aquarium Expand Sustainable Seafood Initiative

    The Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. is ramping up its activities in regard to sustainable seafood, in partnership with the New England Aquarium, by moving forward with efforts to ensure that shoppers have better access to such products from seafood farms, hatcheries and processing plants that adhere to a program of environmental improvement and social consciousness.

  • Harris Teeter Q3 Sales Rise, But Comps, Profit Suffer

    Ruddick Corp., the parent company of Harris Teeter, said yesterday that consolidated sales for its fiscal third quarter ended June 28, 2009, rose 1.1 percent to $1.02 billion, from $1.01 billion in year-ago period.

  • Court Rejects Los Angeles Grocery Worker Retention Ordinance

    The Second District Court of Appeal in Sacramento, Calif., upheld a trial court ruling July 30 that the City of Los Angeles Grocery Worker Retention Ordinance -- the first attempt in the nation to require a certain class of supermarket retailers to retain workers when a store changes ownership -- is unconstitutional.

  • EDITOR’S NOTE:Dietz & Watson Goes Full Bore on Boar’s Head’s Exclusivity Edict

    Casting itself as a champion of consumer choice, Philadelphia-based deli meat supplier Dietz & Watson is slicing into Sarasota, Fla.-based Boar’s Head with a full-bore challenge to discontinue its historical practice of demanding exclusivity as the premium deli brand in supermarket delis.

  • Former PepsiCo SVP Joins Daymon Board

    Carla R. Cooper, a former SVP at PepsiCo and 28-year CPG veteran, has joined the board of directors at Daymon Worldwide, the Stamford, Conn.-based private label broker and consultancy.
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