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SN REPORTmore than any other area of the grocery store, the baking products aisle literally takes on the local flavor of any given region.Traditional regional favorites, old mainstream standbys and new ethnic specialties created by changing area...
Retailers are gearing up their beer departments for Cinco de Mayo, the increasingly popular Mexican holiday that celebrates the anniversary of the Mexican victory over the French in 1862.The holiday is particularly popular in areas where there is...
MILLSBORO, Del. -- Townsends, a poultry processing company here, has acquired Grace Culinary Systems, a prepared foods manufacturer that supplies supermarkets and mass merchandisers as well as traditional food-service accounts.ompleted March 25...
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Rentrak here is reviewing ways it might reduce its stake in fast-growing Blowout Entertainment. Blowout operates a total of 181 video rental departments in Wal-Mart and Kmart supercenters and Ralphs supermarkets. The move is part...
WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Congress has forwarded to the White House a massive bill that would overhaul the nation's farm policy for the next seven years. President Clinton was expected to sign the bill into law last week.The bill would phase out decades...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Some supermarket chains may begin merchandising a new brand of greeting cards with the Hallmark name on the back beginning next year.The brand, Expressions from Hallmark, was announced here late last month. It is Hallmark's...
The first salvos in the root beer war already have been fired. Jon Harris, a spokesman for Somers, N.Y.-based Pepsi-Cola Co., said Pepsi launched its first commercials for its Mug line of root beer, diet root beer, cream and diet cream sodas last...
The greeting card industry agrees that alternative cards are the fastest growing segment of the market today.But exactly what percentage of the 7.4 billion greeting cards sold annually are alternative greetings remains unclear. The three leading...
News & Solutions Special ReportEvery now and then it does no harm to step back from the onrush of events and see how a few companies are executing the basics of the business, especially if a basic execution provides a useful solution to a problem ...
Although the overall video game business was down significantly in 1995, retailers responding to SN's fifth annual State of the Industry Report on Supermarket Video reported only a slight decrease in their game rental revenues.The video game...