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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...
BURBANK, Calif. -- Two top executives are leaving Columbia TriStar Home Video for positions related to new communications technologies.W. Patrick Campbell, president of Columbia TriStar, will join Ameritech, Chicago, as executive vice president of...
Add this to your glossary of trade marketing buzz-words: co-marketing.Its advocates maintain that co-marketing could be the Next Great Thing in the evolution of brand marketing and trade relations. While definitions vary, its premise is a joint...
PEWAUKEE, Wis. -- Roundy's is the latest chain to expand its electronic shelf labeling program to additional stores.The retailer, based here, will install the electronic pricing tags in six of its Pick 'n Save stores in the Milwaukee area. It may...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- The Agriculture Department plans to hold a roundtable discussion to get input from supermarkets and other segments of the industry on the best way to implement a new mandatory meat inspection system -- a regulatory step the...
LOS ANGELES -- The Video Software Dealers Association will tie in with National Snack Food Month in February in a promotion aimed at boosting video rentals and sales of snack food items.itles rather than new releases, said Rick Karpel, VSDA's...
Deli party trays are expected to score high this Super Bowl weekend.Watching the trays come into their own over the holidays has spurred retailers to promote and merchandise them more aggressively than ever for the big game.While the high-margin...
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Shoppers in the grocery aisles of Rosauers Supermarkets here are in for a fresh surprise.The retailer has added a refrigerated case that contains precut produce and salad dressings at the end of an aisle that contains shelf...
The biggest threat to supermarkets today is not wholesale clubs, category killers or factory outlets. It's video dial tone. Retailers should quake at the idea that armchair shoppers could order anything from arugula to zirconia by pushing a few...
Bertolli and Filippo Berio brands of olive oil together account for more than half of the $230 million sales in supermarkets nationally. They also dominate the market in the Boston area, where Brand Marketing spot-checked prices at three...