BRUSSELS — Price investments at the Food Lion and Hannaford Bros. banners are positioning the stores for long-term success but are coming at a cost to earnings. More
Delhaize Group has made great progress in making its American chains function more like a single company to create efficiencies, Pierre-Olivier Beckers, the company's chief executive officer, told SN in an interview...More
BRUSSELS — Executing its “New Game Plan” initiatives in a time of economic uncertainly has put Delhaize in “uncomfortable” position for the short term, Pierre-Oliver Beckers, Delhaize’s chief executive officer, told shareholders at the retailer’s annual meeting here Friday....More
Safeway, Kroger Co. and Supervalu closed dozens more traditional stores than they opened last year, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, continuing a trend that has seen them collectively shed hundreds of locations in recent years. At the same time, operators at both the high and low end — including Supervalu’s Save-A-Lot discount banner — have continued adding new stores and remain committed to aggressive expansion....More
SALISBURY, N.C — Food Lion said it has reopened a distribution center in Dunn, N.C., that was closed for renovation and repair after being severely damaged by a tornado a year ago....More
BRUSSELS — Price investments at the Food Lion and Hannaford banners are positioning the stores for long-term success but are coming at a cost to earnings, officials of parent company Delhaize Group here said Thursday....More
SALISBURY, N.C. — Bottom Dollar Food will celebrate the opening of its newest store in New Jersey this Friday by giving away a reusable bag filled with groceries to the first 200 shoppers in all of its eight New Jersey locations....More
DUNN, N.C. — On April 22 last year, at 4:22 p.m., Gerald Greenleaf, vice president, distribution and transportation, Delhaize America, got a call at his Hannaford Bros. office in Scarborough, Maine....More
ALBANY, N.Y. — Days after a federal judge blocked the Food and Drug Administration from requiring graphic warnings on cigarette packs, a campaign began educating New Yorkers about the dangers of exposing youth to in-store tobacco displays....More
BRUSSELS — Delhaize Group here last week said it planned to expand its Food Lion repositioning effort to about 250 stores in the Virginia markets of Norfolk, Richmond, Roanoke and Lynchburg....More
