MILAN, Ill. -- Eagle Food Centers here has been battered by competitive openings for the last five quarters -- but the company has announced a big jump in capital expenditures as part of a plan to expand its market...
QUEENS VILLAGE, N.Y. -- The union representing some 16,000 supermarket workers in the Metropolitan New York market last week announced a tentative agreement with King Kullen, Pathmark, and Edwards Supermarkets, just...
RICHMOND, Va. -- A pair of supermarket chain acquisitions this year has helped regional wholesaler Richfood Holdings here emerge as a formidable retailer as well. Those acquisitions -- of 45-store Farm Fresh and 37...
ETOBICOKE, Ontario -- For Oshawa Group here, fiscal 1998 will be remembered as the year it returned to its roots as a food company.Fiscal 1998 saw the divestiture of non-core assets, renaming and realignment of its...
CHICAGO -- Food retailers and marketers must recognize changes in the ethnic makeup and behavioral patterns of the U.S. population if they are to serve the customer base of the future, according to Marcia Mogelonsky...
ZAANDAM, Netherlands -- Executives from Ahold here reported a strong 1997, and outlined a two-pronged growth strategy for the new fiscal year.Fiscal 1997 saw a 38% increase in sales over the prior year to $25.3...
CHICAGO -- The Food Marketing Institute last week presented John Greeniaus, retired chairman and chief executive officer of Nabisco, with its William H. Albers Award for Industry Relations.The award, made here at the...
CHICAGO -- The food industry continued its 20-year history of supporting the antihunger charity Second Harvest with a donation of 14 truckloads of grocery items last week during the Food Marketing Institute's annual...
CHICAGO -- Although the millennium is still 19 months away, major retailers have only about seven months to become "year-2000 compliant," said one supermarket technology expert.Appearing here last week at the Food...
CHICAGO -- Food-stamp reform -- coupled with the strong economy -- has taken nearly $400 million worth of food stamps out of the system each month, according to the Food Marketing Institute.The Washington-based FMI...
