Nonfoods

NEW YORK -- During the first six months of 2006, Free Standing Insert (FSI) average face value rose 8.6 percent to $1.18 vs. the same period last year, the largest average face value for a half-year period on record, according to "The Marx FSI Trend Report," issued yesterday by Marx Promotion Intelligence, a division of TNS Media Intelligence here.

WASHINGTON -- To mark its 70th anniversary, the National Nutritional Foods Association here said yesterday that it has changed its name to the Natural Products Association.

SEATTLE -- Following a beta testing period that began late May, online retailer Amazon.com yesterday launched its grocery store formally with a letter from founder and c.e.o. Jeff Bezos posted front and center on the mega e-retailer's home page.

WASHINGTON -- To mark its 70th anniversary, the National Nutritional Foods Association here said yesterday that it has changed its name to the Natural Products Association.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Stew Leonard's here is launching an all-natural fresh private label chicken line under the brand name "Naked Chicken" with in-store samplings running July 19 through July 30. The antibiotic- and hormone-free chickens are raised on family farms in Pennsylvania's Amish country on a vegetarian diet of corn and soybeans.

COPPELL, Texas -- Minyard Food Stores, Inc. here is delaying the opening of its new Hispanic-centric Carnival flagship store due to construction delays, s.v.p. of strategy and marketing Poul Heilmann told Progressive Grocer on Friday.