Events

NORTH HAVEN, Ct., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Stop & Shop Supermarket Company announced today loaded and delivered two tractor-trailers with food and supplies to New York City for the rescue crews assisting in the emergency disaster relief efforts.

Just about everybody thinks IT ought to merit major investment but many fewer CPG exec believe their companies are putting their money where their mouth is, according to a research report issued yesterday by the Grocery Manufacturers Association.

New government figures reveal that, while the priceAmerican farmers receive for their sugar has been running at its lowest level in more than two decades, the big grocers nationwide have jacked up the price they charge consumers for sugar to a 20-year high.

With record earnings and its stock price surging, meat giant SmithfieldFoods Inc. plans to keep buying up companies andbuilding new facilities, the company's chairman toldshareholders Wednesday.

Delhaize Group (Euronext Brussels: DELB; NYSE: DEG) will release its second quarter earnings on Thursday,September 6, 2001 at 2:00 p.m. CET (8:00 a.m. EST) for the thirteen weeks ended June 30, 2001. Immediately following, Delhaize Group will conduct an investors'conference call at 3:00 p.m. CET (9:00 a.m. EST) on Thursday September 6, 2001. The Delhaize Group management team will be discussing the financial results forsecond quarter 2001.

Ahold, the international food retail and foodservice company, todayannounced its intention to appoint Dr. Cynthia P. Schneider, the former U.S. ambassador to The Netherlands, to its SupervisoryBoard. An Extraordinary Shareholders Meeting will be convened on Sept. 20, 2001, during which stockholders of Royal Ahold willhave the opportunity to approve the nomination.

ACNielsen U.S., an operating unit of ACNielsen, and the MediaPlan division of Spectra Inc., each VNU companies, today announced the launch of a jointly developed information service that brings a new level of actionability to the process of marketing mix modeling.

The fourth annual Progressive Grocer ProGro and Cannondale Associates PowerRanking Awards banquet, celebrating the "best of the best" in retailing and manufacturing, is scheduled for Nov. 1 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Chicago.