MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here said last week that it would enter the burgeoning natural-and-organics retail space with a value-priced format called Sunflower Market.The retailer/wholesaler said the new banner would...
MONTVALE, N.J. -- A&P here indicated that it could retain the Farmer Jack chain now that the potential buyer has withdrawn its interest.In a conference call with analysts discussing the company's second-quarter...
Hannaford Bros. track record as a developer of executive talent, and the influence that has had on the entire Delhaize organization, combined with its success in positioning itself in the market, have led SN to...
WASHINGTON -- The nation's largest grocery cooperatives grew their businesses an average of about 12% in 2004, according to a report issued this month by National Cooperative Bank here. (See Page 28, opposite.)The...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Market conditions are ripe for acquisitions -- but the one Spartan Stores here was contemplating was simply too risky, the company's chairman and chief executive officer said last week.Speaking...
LUFKIN, Texas -- Apparently it takes more than a hurricane to shut down the Brookshire Bros. supermarket chain.With seven of its stores damaged by Hurricane Rita last month and unable to reopen, the company decided to...
ISSAQUAH, Wash. -- Costco Wholesale Corp. here said last week it planned to ramp up expansion in 2006 with a target of up to 30 new warehouse clubs.After falling short of projections for new-store openings in fiscal...
WASHINGTON -- The United Food and Commercial Workers Union will devote more resources toward political activity at the local level now that it is part of the new Change to Win coalition, a UFCW spokeswoman told SN...
BOISE, Idaho -- The potential sale of Albertsons here is already having an impact on the industry -- in the form of a surge in the number of the company's senior-level employees who have suddenly made themselves...