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  • Food Lion Selling Exclusive Imported Pasta in Some Delis
    SALISBURY, N.C. -- In a move to add more high-quality, convenient items to its product mix, Food Lion here has begun offering Bertagni fresh filled pastas from Italy in more than 400 of its stores, via an exclusive partnership with Sterling Foods, Inc.

  • Country Choice Organic Taps Former Hannaford Buyer for Sales
    EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Country Choice Organic, a manufacturer of organic cookies, hot cereal, and oatmeal squares here, has tapped natural/organic industry veteran Jocelyne Greg as East Cost regional manager.

  • VNU Marketing Information Acquires Decisions Made Easy
    NEW YORK -- VNU Marketing Information, a business unit of VNU, a global information and media company, yesterday acquired Decisions Made Easy (DME), an international company dedicated to helping consumer-packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers effectively manage, analyze, present and act on their sales and supply chain data through the use of its software and services.

  • Supervalu, IRI Extend Relationship
    EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- SUPERVALU, Inc. here and Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) are extending their relationship under a new agreement in which IRI will provide manufacturers and independent grocery retailers with insights and data for both Supervalu's wholesale supply chain and its grocery retail division.

  • PBH Applauds High Profile Call for Healthier Kids' Marketing
    WILMINGTON, Del. -- Leaders from the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) here are hailing a new report released this week by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM), which claimed food and beverage marketing aimed at kids points them to high-calorie, low-nutrient products.

  • Whole Foods Opens Community-focused Store in Denver Area
    AUSTIN, Texas -- Leading super-natural retailer Whole Foods Market here yesterday opened a new 55,000-square-foot unit in Belmar, Colo., which, in typical Whole Foods fashion, includes a focus on local and regional foods.

  • Certified Grocers Inks $100M Deal to Buy Fresh Brands
    SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- As one of the first M&A deals in what is expected to be an active year for M&A activity in the retail food sector in the coming year, Fresh Brands, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by an affiliate of the Chicago-based grocery wholesale cooperative, Certified Grocers Midwest, Inc. in a transaction valued at approximately $100 million.

  • ACNielsen Homescan MegaPanel Expansion Now Complete
    SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--ACNielsen U.S. said yesterday it had completed the expansion of its Homescan consumer panel, the end of a two-year initiative that has more than doubled the size of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry's leading source of consumer and shopper insights.

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