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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Marketing to Kids Influences Poor Nutritional Choices, IOM Study Says; CPG Industry Responds
    WASHINGTON -- A new report released yesterday by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) here claimed food and beverage marketing aimed at kids points them to high-calorie, low-nutrient products. In the industry's defense, GMA, meanwhile, claimed its members were already doing many things to offer kids healthy choices.

  • 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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