WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — Tops Friendly Markets here last week agreed to acquire 21 supermarkets in upstate New York and Vermont — mostly under the Grand Union banner — from GU Family Markets, an affiliate of C&S Whol...
A key characteristic of life inside the beltway is that change is always in the air — legislators come and go at the whim of the electorate, new issues rise to prominence and fade away, as do the organizations tha...
Joseph T. Hansen has been working overtime.
As the president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Hansen has been meeting with top retailers and top government officials to try to figure out how he...
ARLINGTON, Va. — Both the Food Marketing Institute and National Grocers Association here said last week they were opposed to President Obama’s plan to allow the so-called Bush tax cuts to expire at year-end for th...
Kids would probably rather get Hershey’s Kisses than knowledge-based insights in their goodie bags this Halloween, but the latter is the real treat that The Hershey Co. is offering to retailers.
“We’ve become...
If Andy Warhol were still alive, he’d have a tough time keeping up with all the new products coming down the pipeline from the Campbell Soup Co.
Denise Morrison, in her first year as the president and chief ex...
The company known for its “57 varieties” has a few other facts and figures to tout these days.
Some of those include 28 consecutive quarters of organic sales growth, 21% of sales from emerging markets in fisca...
Kendall J. Powell has been doing some grocery shopping.
The chairman and chief executive officer of Minneapolis-based General Mills has announced six acquisitions for the diversified food-products manufacturer...
Luiz Fernando Edmond is putting the horses in front of the cart, and hoping they pull Anheuser-Busch toward market-share gains.
The president of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s North American business is seeking to lev...