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CINCINNATI -- Kroger Co. here said operating earnings increased 25.7% in the fourth quarter, which exceeded Wall Street's expectations and helped boost Kroger's stock above $24 per share for the first time in a year.Operating earnings, or earnings...
HOUSTON -- Albertson's will build an undetermined number of stores on the Houston periphery in 1994 and then formally enter this market in 1995, according to industry observers.Although officials of the Boise, Idaho-based chain declined comment...
DALLAS -- Kal Kan's Pedigree pet food brand and Kroger supermarkets here teamed up in a joint promotion that sent 200 area shoppers to professional hockey games.ached Pedigree, which agreed to support a ticket giveaway.During a year-end...
DALLAS -- Gillette mounted a custom-tailored fall rebate at area Kroger stores here that put up to $10 in the hands of consumers who purchased grooming and personal care products.The account-specific promotion was a special version of a nationally...
The industry's fragile bottom line is lending weight to an emerging strategy of holding back from switching en masse to chlorine-free refrigerants.Two chains -- Jitney Jungle Stores of America, Jackson, Miss., and Hannaford Bros., Scarborough...
The private-label industry is in the midst of its first National Store Brands Awareness Month, with a relatively small number of initial retail participants but a potentially promising future.The promotion is aimed at turning around consumer...
WILMINGTON, Del. -- DuPont Co. here will continue producing chlorofluorocarbon-based refrigerants until the end of 1995 at the request of the Clinton administration.The decision reverses a policy announced this past March when the company said it...
Ever since Kroger Co. unveiled plans two years go to invest nearly half a billion dollars to expand in central Indiana, the Cincinnati-based retailer has not taken its foot off the gas pedal...