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  • Spartan Stores Holds Line in Q2
    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.--Despite intense supercenter and warehouse club competition in its core market, officials at Spartan Stores here, said they were able to hold the line on performance in the second quarter, with sales and earnings basically comparable to the year ago period.

  • Public Interest Groups Call for Revised Alcohol Labeling
    WASHINGTON -- At a press conference here yesterday, public interest organizations Shape Up America and the National Consumers League demanded that the federal government act immediately to mandate the same standardized labeling information on beer, wine, and distilled spirits that currently appears on packaging for foods, beverages, and over-the-counter drugs.

  • Luxury Pet Products Gaining With Consumers, at Supermarkets' Expense: Study
    NEW YORK -- Now it's not just people who are using premium shampoos, therapeutic skin care, and products featuring botanical ingredients. According to "Market Trends: Pet Grooming and Spa Products," a new report from market research publisher Packaged Facts, a division of MarketResearch.com, consumers are increasingly treating their pets to similar items, but they're not going to supermarkets to purchase them.

  • City Council Overrides Mayoral Veto on Big-Box Medical Insurance Bill
    NEW YORK -- The New York City Council yesterday overrode a veto by Mayor Mike Bloomberg of the Health Care Security Act, which requires large supermarkets and big-box stores selling groceries to pay for a portion of their employees' health care.

  • Dole Food Promotes Idrovo to Packaged Foods Prez
    WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- Dole Food Co. based here promoted Javier H. Idrovo to president, Dole Worldwide Packaged Foods, succeeding Peter M. Nolan, who earlier announced his retirement after 13 years with the fresh produce and floral producer and marketer.

  • Acorn Markets Retains GroupRed To Spice Up Foodservice
    WELLSBORO, Pa. -- The Acorn Markets chain of convenience stores headquartered here has retained GroupRed LLC, a brand strategy and retail design firm, to upgrade and redesign the look and feel of its foodservice departments.

  • Ex-Colgate Exec Norm Loringer Gets GMDC Lifetime Achievement Award
    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Retail nonfoods and pharmacy trade association General Merchandise Distributors Council recognized Norm Loringer, retired from Colgate-Palmolive, with its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2005.

  • Safeway, Giant Food Named in Dairy Industry Lawsuit
    WASHINGTON -- Milk doesn't always do a body good, or at least that's the argument being made by 10 Washington-area residents who filed a class-action lawsuit yesterday in the District of Columbia's Superior Court.
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