Nonfoods

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - Kmart said it is rolling out 32 new products to its assortment of private label beverages under the American Fare brand name, including vitamin water, bottled green iced tea, Free Fall and Loop energy drinks, and Fruit FX (fruit- flavored water), and a 10-pack of juice pouches with 100 percent of the recommended daily value of vitamin C.

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - Kmart said it is rolling out 32 new products to its assortment of private label beverages under the American Fare brand name, including vitamin water, bottled green iced tea, Free Fall and Loop energy drinks, and Fruit FX (fruit- flavored water), and a 10-pack of juice pouches with 100 percent of the recommended daily value of vitamin C.

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - Kmart said it is rolling out 32 new products to its assortment of private label beverages under the American Fare brand name, including vitamin water, bottled green iced tea, Free Fall and Loop energy drinks, and Fruit FX (fruit- flavored water), and a 10-pack of juice pouches with 100 percent of the recommended daily value of vitamin C.

CHICAGO -- Eight IGA retailers, including operators in Ohio, Kentucky, Connecticut, and Illinois, were singled out to receive the 2007 IGA International Retailer of the Year awards from among the over 4,000 IGA retailers operating worldwide.

KEENE, N.H. -- C&S Wholesale Grocers here has kicked off a 2007 literacy partnership with First Book, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that offers children from low-income families the chance to read and own their first new books.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer Inc. here will introduce its own line of store-brand organic foods across all of its 176 stores beginning Sunday. The chain said the new Meijer Organics line will comprise more than 200 certified USDA organic products by year's end, ranging from extra-virgin olive oil and Mediterranean thin-crust pizza, to tea and vegetables.

KEENE, N.H. -- C&S Wholesale Grocers here has kicked off a 2007 literacy partnership with First Book, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that offers children from low-income families the chance to read and own their first new books.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer Inc. here will introduce its own line of store-brand organic foods across all of its 176 stores beginning Sunday. The chain said the new Meijer Organics line will comprise more than 200 certified USDA organic products by year's end, ranging from extra-virgin olive oil and Mediterranean thin-crust pizza, to tea and vegetables.