SUNBURY, Pa. -- Weis Markets here has pledged $105 million in capital expenditures this year, to cover opening eight or nine new stores and remodeling or enlarging about 10 stores.All stores built in the coming year...
MAPLE HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Finast here is aggressively rolling out and promoting an everyday-low-price strategy throughout its 39 Finast stores.The Power Price Deals program cuts the prices on some 1,000 to 1,500 grocery...
BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here is forging ahead with its plan to open stores on mainland China later this year, according to Bobby Martin, president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart's international...
DALLAS -- Kimberly-Clark here teamed with Abco Foods, Phoenix on an account-specific promotion that linked the retailer's Blue Ribbon store-brand meats and the manufacturer's full-line of paper and personal products...
Melvin Scales, consumer promotion manager at Lifesavers Co., Winston-Salem, N.C., is a strong believer in product sampling."Sampling is probably the biggest opportunity for gaining trial," he says.In planning a...
EASTON, Pa. -- Five brand marketers have hopped onto the newest retail marketing vehicle to hit the streets -- bus murals.The cooperative-funded rolling ads are the brainchild of Laneco here, a subsidiary of Supervalu...
NEW YORK -- Andrew Jergens Co. here has eliminated off-invoice allowances on "non-key" stockkeeping units and rechanneled consumer and trade marketing monies into a flexible fund that is being used to orchestrate...
MINNEAPOLIS -- An in-store system of computerized TV monitors has recently finished a three-year test pilot with a major retailer in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market.According to Robert S. Jackson, president and chief...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Harris Teeter here attributed increases in operating profit and same-store sales for the first quarter ended Jan. 1 to improved performance in two problem markets.The company announced a 9% net...
LARGO, Fla. -- Val-Pak Direct Marketing Systems here is advertising nationally on cable television to boost consumer awareness of its packaged goods coupons redeemable at retail. The $3 million advertising campaign...