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American Red Cross President Elizabeth Dole (center) received the Food Marketing Institute's Esther Peterson Consumer Service Award for her lifetime contribution of vision, integrity and caring sensitivity to consumers. The award was presented at...
NEW ORLEANS -- Schwegmann's fortunes are turning upward.Less than 10 months after Kohlberg & Co., the New York-based investment firm, acquired the 26-store chain from the Schwegmann family last Valentine's Day, earnings are back in the black and...
CHICAGO -- The private-label business at Supervalu is benefiting from a variety of Efficient Consumer Response initiatives that are part of the Minneapolis-based distributor's Advantage program, Mike Wright, chairman, president and chief executive...
ATLANTA -- Produce sales increased by double digits at many of the 274 Southeastern Supervalu-supplied stores participating in the 5 a Day Week promotion, said John Schildroth, produce promotions manager for the Southeast region, based here.Those...
Putting a new product on the shelf is no easy task. It requires coordination among trading partners and the numerous departments within them, all operating under a precisely timed promotion schedule. Even if all these elements work perfectly, new...
WholesalingmbersI faithfully read, with interest, your editorials in SN. Needless to say, the one entitled "The Wholesaling Paradox" [Nov. 3, 1997] caught my eye rather quickly for obvious reasons. The purpose of my letter, however, specifically...
ST. LOUIS -- Save-A-Lot here, a division of Supervalu, Minneapolis, will be consolidating storage of all its dry grocery and perishables into a new distribution facility in Winchester, Ky., in early 1998.The 396,000-square-foot facility, currently...
PLYMOUTH, Minn. -- A Cub Foods store here, a franchise of Cub Foods, owned by Supervalu, Minneapolis, is saving 40 hours a week in labor by using a motorized cart to retrieve shopping carts scattered around its parking lot.The motorized cart...
New President at Harris TeeterCorp. here said last week Fred J. Morganthall 2nd has taken over as president of 139-unit Harris Teeter here.Morganthall, 45, succeeds Edward S. Dunn Jr., 54, who said in June he would step down as president at the...
LAS VEGAS -- The frozen-food industry won't survive if its marketing programs remain status quo, said Jonathan Kramer, president of J. Brown/LMC Group, a Stamford, Conn., consultancy."If the frozen-food industry doesn't change its marketing...