Trading Partners

Scores of manufacturer promotions ensure the checkout lane will be the big winner this Super Bowl season.

Larry Johnston's re-energized management team is abandoning weak markets, hacking costs, and working a plan to be the nation's top food and drug retailer.

DALLAS - Martin's Super Markets of South Bend, Ind., said it plans to move to scan based trading relationships with its suppliers using sbtLink, the scan based trading service from the viaLink Company.

NEW YORK - Fleming chairman and chief executive Mark Hansen told employees in a Thursday memo that its depressed stock price does not reflect its current status of business, Dow Jones Newswires reports.

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. - UCCnet announced on Tuesday the consumer products unit of Georgia-Pacific Corp. will begin implementing the organization's item registration and data synchronization services.

The payoff from investing in shelf management tools is being able to serve your customers better than your competitors. Most retailers haven't taken it that far.

WASHINGTON - Officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were scheduled to meet with consumer groups and food manufacturers on Monday to discuss the risk of acrylamide, a possible carcinogen found in many fried or baked starchy foods.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Global supermarket retailers Tesco, based in the UK, and Carrefour, based in France, are among a group of retailers being accused of indulging in unfair trade practices in Thailand, according to an inquiry panel established by the Trade Competition Committee, the Bangkok Post reports.