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Private Brands Summit to Draw Wider Audience

DALLAS — The Food Marketing Institute will encourage retailers to think like shoppers at its 2012 Private Brands Summit, co-located with FMI2012: The Food Retail Show.

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May 22, 2012

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Weis Markets Photo Gallery: The New Bellefonte Store 2

“If you look at this building today you’ll see that we’ve come to terms with understanding who we want to be,” David Hepfinger, Weis Markets’ chief executive officer, says of the chain’s new store in Bellefonte, Pa.
May 7, 2012

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Safeway Uses YouTube to Promote Contest

PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway is featuring YouTube videos of the nine student finalists in its seventh annual Lucerne “Art of Dairy” contest....More
May 7, 2012

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Nash Finch Launches Private-Label Program

MINNEAPOLIS — Nash Finch intends to boost its customers’ price-competitiveness behind a program to stock the distributor’s private-label items — and remove their competitors....More
May 7, 2012

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Walgreens Executive Shares Corporate-Brand Tips

DALLAS — Getting company-wide input — from marketing to merchandising to category managers — is key to private-label success, said Laura Sturdevant, director of product development for private brands at Walgreens, Deerfield, Ill....More
May 3, 2012

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FMI2012 Video: Interview With Laura Sturdevant

Laura Sturdevant, director of product development, private brands, Walgreens, says her focus is on "how do retailers work with external agencies including manufacturers and design agencies to bring that best-of-class product to shelf." She was interviewed by Supermarket Guru Phil Lempert and SN Editor-in-Chief David Orgel at FMI2012 in Dallas....More
May 1, 2012

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Walgreens Executive Shares Private-Label Tips

DALLAS – Getting input from multiple business departments - from marketing to merchandising to category managers - is key to the private-label development process, said Laura Sturdevant, director of product development for private brands at Walgreens....More
Apr. 30, 2012

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Safeway to Host Earth-Friendly School Barbecue

PLEASANTON, Calif. — Safeway continues to link its earth-friendly private labels to green living, this time by participating in an environmental contest that will award students a barbecue featuring its Open Nature, O Organics and Bright Green brands....More
Apr. 23, 2012

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OTA: Organic Sales Up 9.5%

WASHINGTON — Organic product sales grew at a faster clip than conventionally produced items in 2011 with growth of 9.5% vs. 4.5%, show the findings of the Organic Trade Association’s 2012 Organic Industry Survey....More
Apr. 23, 2012

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Smart & Final Promotes Private Label

COMMERCE, Calif. - Non-membership warehouse grocer Smart & Final is promoting its First Street private label with a sweepstakes that will reward five grand-prize winners a one-year supply of First Street pasta and a $500 SmartCash gift card....More
Apr. 16, 2012

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Private Brands Summit to Draw Wider Audience

DALLAS — The Food Marketing Institute will encourage retailers to think like shoppers at its 2012 Private Brands Summit, co-located with FMI2012: The Food Retail Show....More

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