WASHINGTON -- More than 800 retailers and wholesalers from the supermarket business have preregistered for the Food Marketing Institute's fresh prepared foods and value-added products show, MealSolutions '96, the...
HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- U.S. supermarket chains and specialty cheese makers apparently have a lot to learn about each other before they can work together to take the business beyond the niche of gourmet food stores.Leading...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Being a good, even a very good, supermarket prepared foods purveyor is not good enough anymore for Harris Teeter, according to senior executives at the company, based here.The chain -- known for...
PHOENIX -- If the supermarket industry is to win the war for supremacy as America's meal provider, it will have to rely on the meat department to fight its battles, said veteran retailer Peter V. Gregerson."The meat...
PHILADELPHIA -- Fresh hams and pizza in the bakery?Supermarket strategist Gene Hoffman thinks those and other unconventional products could very well provide the saving grace for in-store bakeries in the future...
NEW ORLEANS -- Mike Dunn, assistant secretary of agriculture for marketing and regulatory programs, called the fresh produce industry the "shining light" of the nation's agricultural sector at the United Fresh Fruit...
NEW ORLEANS -- The United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association is still alive, kicking and vital -- so its leaders took pains to remind the industry at United's 96th annual convention here.Before a large crowd...
Retailers are eager to applaud the ascendancy of precut fruit as The Next Big Thing.But first, they'll have to put down their knives -- and for that, they're not quite so ready.In a roundtable discussion of the future...
Precuts are putting a new twist on the value equation in produce.Continual advancements in cutting and packaging technology, and in new product development, are helping the value-added produce business to expand. But...
MADISON, Wis. -- Supermarket dairy departments are likely to face important challenges and changes in the next five years, said the International Dairy Deli Bakery Association in its latest What's In Store trends...