Nonfoods

NEW YORK -- According to a national study, consumers are increasingly trusting food retailers and manufacturers to provide them with information on nutrition, health, and cooking. Conducted this month by knowledge services company FIND/SVP, among 1,000 consumers, the study found that 78 percent of those polled would have confidence in nutritional advice from a food retailer.

BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, France -- Monoprix, a retailer that operates primarily in French urban areas, plans to deploy consumer demand management (CDM) software at its locations from San Carlos, Calif.-based CDM software provider DemandTec.

PITTSBURGH -- The latest edition in the evolution of Giant Eagle's signature supermarket concept will debut this week, with the unveiling the local market leader's first ground-up location in the thriving northern suburbs here.

NEW YORK -- Such value-added products as mixed-vegetable side dishes, frozen fruit salads, and packaged ethnic rice dishes are providing retailers with the biggest growth opportunities in the $45.6 billion market for private label foods and beverages, according to "The U.S. Market for Private Label Foods and Beverages," a new report from market research publisher Packaged Facts.

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Buy For Less, a regional grocery chain with locations throughout central Oklahoma, plans to install point-of-purchase coupon dispensing and in-store advertising solutions in all 10 of its locations.

NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- In keeping with Kraft Foods' ongoing commitment to health and wellness, the food and beverage giant is participating in the Second Annual Keystone Center Youth Policy Summit this week in Keystone, Colo., along with several nonprofit organizations, a number of other Fortune 100 companies, and students and teachers from across the country.

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. -- Natural and organic grocery chain Whole Foods Market opened its first location on the New Jersey Shore yesterday, at Chapel Hill Shopping Center here. The occasion also marked the opening of the company's 170th store.

LOS ANGELES -- The Kroger Co.'s Ralphs division here, and specialty coffee and tea retailer, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, are launching a strategic partnership that will place the latter's brew program in 300 of the former's service delis.