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Food Marketing Institute and Grocery Manufacturers Association will more closely link their agendas and meetings, and one likely outcome is the combination of their executive summits within two years. The new strategy was unveiled last week at FMI...
Whole Foods Market last week pleaded with competitors for their help in defending its marriage to Wild Oats Markets from federal antitrust regulators determined to break it up. The Federal Trade Commission asked a judge last week to unravel the...
FOR 24 NORTH AMERICAN FOOD RETAILERS TRACKED BY SN, AT THE CLOSE WEDNESDAY, JAN. 14, 2008 MARKET SUMMARY gainers 9 losers 15 unchanged 0 MOST ACTIVE BY VOLUME Wal-Mart 160,243,023 Target 46,013,955 Kroger 30,368,961 AS PERCENTAGE OF SHARES...
FMI's new president and chief executive officer last week unveiled her plans for the organization, with a promise to increase the value of FMI for its members. In an address at FMI's Midwinter Executive Conference here, Leslie G. Sarasin outlined...
CHAIN(S) REGION LOCAL NUMBER OF WORKERS EXPIRATION DATE Multiple New Jersey-New York 1262 26,458 April 18 Kroger* Atlanta-Savannah, Ga. 1996 13,904 Sept. 12 A&P Canada Ontario 175 10,354 Sept. 29 Real Canadian Superstore Vancouver, British...
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union hosted a meeting at its headquarters here earlier this month to discuss how to reunite the U.S. labor movement. While UFCW officials declined comment on the substance of the talks, a union spokesman...
The future financial security of workers will be the focus of this year's labor negotiations, with pension funds expected to be the key bargaining issue in several rounds of bargaining, industry observers told SN. With pension funds tied to...