CLEVELAND -- Some supermarkets will dress up their seasonal aisles this Halloween with Frightmore Towers, a new spectacular display designed and supplied by Retail Creative Services of American Greetings here.This...
PALM DESERT, Calif. -- The General Merchandise Distributors Council outlined a competitive strategy for its members by unveiling its latest Educational Foundation study, "Seasonal Best Practices," during the GM...
From formalized programs and advanced systems to war room activities, general merchandise suppliers are in various stages of the category-management process. While some are pursuing full-blown, formalized programs...
WASHINGTON -- Millbrook Distribution Services, which supplies some 15,000 retailers with nonfood and specialty food products, outlined a three-pronged strategy designed to take the company into a new era of retailing...
LEICESTER, Mass. -- Millbrook Distribution Services here has formed a separate division, Millbrook Retail Solutions, to provide retail merchandising services. In doing so, the nonfood distributor will enter the...
When it comes to offering hair color for the growing numbers of graying Americans, supermarkets rank a distant third among the leading channels.The grocery channel did just 17% of the $970 million in hair color sales...
SAN DIEGO -- Jerry Heller, president and chief executive officer of May's Drug Stores, Tulsa, Okla., called for retailers and suppliers to work together in a spirit of "co-opetition." Addressing another attendance...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The recently formed National Association for Retail Merchandising Services, Stevens Point, Wis., will strive to set standards in an industry that is increasingly playing a bigger role at retail.Gary...
DENVER -- The mass health and beauty care business here is quite vibrant. At supermarket chains alone, HBC sales were up 3.9% to $274 million for the 52 weeks ended March 31, 1996, according to A.C. Nielsen...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The General Merchandise Distributors Council here, with the support of the Nonprescription Drug Manufacturers Association, Washington, has joined other industry associations in fighting a...