NEW YORK -- This year's International Fancy Food & Confection show held here saw a 7.7% increase in buyers and exhibitors over last year, according to show organizers, as well as an increase in diversity."The biggest...
HOUSTON -- Fiesta Mart stores here has begun promoting Caribbean and Nigerian foods in its Viva Fiesta! ethnic marketing magazine, and has added the publication to its Web site, www.fiestamart.com, according to Carrie...
WASHINGTON -- About 93% of shoppers in supermarkets that offer private-label groceries will buy store brands, according to the Food Marketing Institute's recently issued report, "Trends in the United States: Consumer...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- A huge Meijer's unit here was the site of a CherryMan stop, a national promotion aimed at boosting sales of jarred cherries.The promotion coordinator, Connie Castro, said Meijer's liked the...
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- The month of October will get special emphasis this year in frozen food promotions, as the National Frozen Food Association, based here, launches its new October Frozen Food Festival.Chairpersons...
While private-label packaged goods have been one of the big success stories in Center Store, retailers may be in danger of resting on their laurels while mass merchants and drug chains move ahead and develop their own...
WASHINGTON -- Dean & Deluca's Georgetown store here has begun selling only California wines, a policy that is spreading from the small specialty chain's Napa Valley store at the behest of owner Leslie Rudd.Pax Mahle...
With new products coming out all the time and limited freezer capacity, supermarket frozens category managers have their work cut out for them.Some 25 years ago, everyone predicted that frozen food would become a...
MILWAUKEE -- Miller Brewing here became the second major U.S. brewery to obtain kosher certification.Scott Bussen, Miller's public relations manager for major projects, told SN the company decided kosher certification...
NEW YORK -- Sales of a McVeggie Burger, offered by more than a dozen McDonald's fast-food restaurants here, are holding up well, according to the first operator to launch the soy-based pattie.Jim Lewis, vice president...