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NEW YORK - Food connoisseurs will spend $59 billion on gourmet, specialty, and premium foods and beverages this year -- a growth of 10.9 percent over 2006 - and their annual appetite is on pace to grow $96 billion by 2012, according to a new study by market research firm Packaged Facts.

NEW YORK - Food connoisseurs will spend $59 billion on gourmet, specialty, and premium foods and beverages this year -- a growth of 10.9 percent over 2006 - and their annual appetite is on pace to grow $96 billion by 2012, according to a new study by market research firm Packaged Facts.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Publix Super Markets here will hold the official opening of its first store in Chattanooga, Tenn. on Dec. 12.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Publix Super Markets here will hold the official opening of its first store in Chattanooga, Tenn. on Dec. 12.

NATICK, Mass. -- With positive sales results largely due to its "continued strength in perishable foods," in the words of c.e.o. Herb Zarkin during a conference call, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. yesterday posted net income of $22.7 million, or 35 cents per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2007, vs. net income of $18.3 million, or 28 cents per diluted share, in the year-ago period.

NATICK, Mass. -- With positive sales results largely due to its "continued strength in perishable foods," in the words of c.e.o. Herb Zarkin during a conference call, BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. yesterday posted net income of $22.7 million, or 35 cents per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2007, vs. net income of $18.3 million, or 28 cents per diluted share, in the year-ago period.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following sworn testimony on Nov.13 before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, the National Fisheries Institute here said it is defending the use of carbon monoxide or filtered smoke.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Following sworn testimony on Nov.13 before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, the National Fisheries Institute here said it is defending the use of carbon monoxide or filtered smoke.