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When Lifesavers Co. mounts a national in-store sampling and demonstration program these days, it faces tough decisions over whether the promotion should include some of its largest accounts.Mandated services are the issue for those retailers, says...
A new slate of sell-through videos priced under $10 are hitting supermarket shelves in record numbers from nearly every major studio.Though titles priced under $10 have been available in supermarkets for years, most have been previously viewed...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- AC Humko, a manufacturer of private-label vegetable oils, shortening and nondairy creamers based here, has begun using Chep's pallet pooling system.ers, club stores and other participating retail customers."We found that more...
TAMPA, Fla. -- A cross-merchandising promotion needs to make sense and be easily executed to succeed, according to an executive with a leading snack company."From the intuitive sense, you have to make sure that the brands are compatible and...
TAMPA, Fla. -- Brand marketers can build sales and product awareness through storewide events, according to an official with the world's largest marketer of fresh fruits and vegetables."Although Dole has seven separate sales organizations within...
NEW ORLEANS -- A half-dozen manufacturers and grocers are testing an interactive marketing system designed to align trading partners and providers of service and information on a private electronic network. The system is called the SuperMarket...
How does a small importer with an extensive line of genuine imported Italian pasta and condiments gain a toehold on American store shelves? International Food & Gourmet Products, San Francisco, has one creative answer.It pays $75 or $100 per month...
Grocery wholesalers are now convened in Orlando, Fla., for the National-American Wholesale Grocers' Association annual business conference, but it won't happen again. "Next year at this time we'll be talking about the FDI convention," John Block...
Many suppliers are giving two thumbs up to videos priced under $10."With these lower-priced videos, I see our penetration in supermarkets expanding," said Richard Pinson, director of marketing at Turner Home Entertainment, Atlanta. "I see us...