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Sathers Lollipops Set to Lift Offom lollipops from Sathers here are about to take off.The original Sonic Boom bubble gum forms the center of these lollipops. Five fruit flavors are available: grape, watermelon, sour apple, strawberry and cherry...
FEBRUARYTRADE SHOW Toy Fair, showroom displays at Toy Center building and booth displays at Javits Center, New York. Contact: American International Toy Fair/Toy Manufacturers of America (212) 675-1141.15-17 TRADE SHOW AWMA 37th National Winter...
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Specialty retailer Sutton Place Gourmet here is borrowing supermarket tactics for a new aggressive marketing plan.The company, a gourmet-oriented chain that emphasizes fresh food and is often cited as a leader in prepared foods...
This column will focus on trends, technologies and approaches used in-store to drive product sales and reach a consumer growing more elusive and more discriminating each day. The goal is to provide information relevant to how brand marketers do...
F&W Respondstor:Select readers of Supermarket News met Food & Water Inc.'s advertisement of Dec. 11 in SN with accusations of lying and deceit [in a series of letters to the editor in SN of Dec. 25]. The reaction from United Fresh Fruit and...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Kikkoman here is marking the Chinese New Year this month with a heavy schedule of national magazine ads and in-store activities themed around the Chinese zodiac.Sunday, Feb. 4, said Trish MacLeod, marketing manager for Kikkoman...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Carr Gottstein Foods here reported an earnings drop of 59.4% to $3.7 million for the year ended Dec. 31 and a net loss for the quarter of $1.7 million due to two extraordinary items and pretax charges of $3.7 million.r the...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Eastman Kodak here and Fuji Photo Film, Elmsford, N.Y., have created new film technologies.films.The films, which Kodak describes as the finest family of consumer films it has ever manufactured, employ new Kodak emulsions...
CHICAGO -- A mastery of information technology may be critical to the process of bringing products to market, but its effectiveness can be severely limited if the brand marketer doesn't get its retailer relationships right.This point of view...
Sales Treke are seeing direct impact with field people as they travel."-- Bill Antoskiewicz, director of sales operations, on implementing high-tech sales force automation tools at Ralston Foods, St. Louis. Page 23.