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ETERNAL SUMMER HAIR - Consumers can channel beachy summer hair all year long with Charles Worthington London's new Big Hair Full-Volume Texturizing Salt Spray. The spray's sure shot delivery system places product directly where it needs to go...
As they cater to petite palates with natural and organic fare, retailers' private-label lines are thriving just as vigorously as the little ones who are consuming their creations. Tapping into the long-underserved market is proving to be...
After years of being the predictable cash cow of many supermarkets' private-label programs, house-brand dairy products are demonstrating new potential for growth, as retailers fulfill demand for organic, all-natural and functional foods, as well...
Handy Foods, a one-store independent, is offering card-based fuel rewards for the purchase of selected products that shoppers are using to buy about 2,000 gallons of fuel per week at a nearby gas station, Partridge’s Marathon, with which...
The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus has recommended that St. Louis-based Beech-Nut Nutrition Corp. modify certain advertising claims for its baby food products.
Sobeys has launched "Countertop Buzz," a blog showcasing recipes and food tips co-written by a pair of noted chefs using Sobeys' Compliments brand private-label items. The blog, linked through Sobeys' website or at countertopbuzz.trapeze.com, is...
BI-LO PROMOTES MAYER, GIANAKAS, MOULD -- Tye Anthony, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Bi-Lo, announced new leadership roles in three positions last week. Steve Mayer was tapped to be group vice president for perishables. Mayer...
Surviving chain-store competition isn't all that difficult once you become the living embodiment of the brand. So said Sharon McGinnis Young, one of the eponymous sisters of McGinnis Sisters Special Food Stores, in a presentation at Food Marketing...
Albertsons is one of the first retailers to use a new technology that gives advertisers good reason to warm up to the frozens department. The retailer's Dallas/Fort Worth operating area concluded a three-month advertising program in which an...
Bi-Lo is kicking off a marketing effort to polish its brand image throughout its Southeastern market area. Conceived and executed in partnership with the chain's new agency-of-record, Erwin-Penland, Greenville, S.C., the campaign rolled out on...