Frozen Foods

One Piggly Wiggly operator reaches for premium cachet with a redesign, netting sales gains of 50 percent while retaining its established base.

MILL VALLEY, Calif. -- Building on the success of its private label line, specialty retailer Mollie Stone's Markets here is introducing a line of store brand marinades that include several trendily spicy flavors.

PITTSBURGH -- Green is definitely good for Giant Eagle customer Paul McCormick, who won $500,000 in the Healthy Choice "Green is Good/Giant Eagle Pigskin Challenge," which aired during the nationally televised Pitt vs. Notre Dame football game played here in Heinz Field on Labor Day weekend.

JACKSON, Mich. -- Dawn Food Products, Inc., based here, one of the world's largest independently owned bakery manufacturers and distributors, said it will increase prices effective Oct. 1 across all manufactured product lines, to offset increasing energy and fuel costs.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Leading frozen vegetable supplier Birds Eye Foods here has named Neil Harrison chairman, president, and c.e.o. He succeeds Dennis M. Mullen, who is stepping down from active management but is making himself available as a consultant to the company.

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company here is expanding and renovating its supermarket at The Plaza at Shelter Cove shopping center in Hilton Head, a popular resort area in coastal South Carolina, to keep up with its customers' upscale tastes.

From HEB to Publix and beyond, the grocers most committed to Hispanics are learning not to get lost in the translation.

LOS ANGELES -- After three years of weathering protests by local officials, labor unions, and community activists, Wal-Mart Stores yesterday opened its first supercenter in Los Angeles County in Palmdale.