CONCORDIA, Kan. -- Boogaarts Food Stores here boosted fresh pork sales some 25% during a one-week promotion last month that encouraged shoppers to go "pork crazy."About 80% of the stores' fresh pork items were...
A salmon processors group is building sales momentum with a generic advertising campaign.The group, called Salmon Marketers International, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, said it has run a four-week generic...
Retail prices for Easter hams could be at their lowest in years, said meat department executives interviewed a few weeks prior to the April 16 holiday.Retailers told SN that the past year's record pork production...
HOUSTON -- Rice Food Markets here thinks it has discovered a low-fat alternative to red meat: emu meat.Since March 17, the chain has been offering rump, drum and thigh cuts of emu meat at its six upscale Rice...
Even though winter has been slow in coming for much of the nation, simmering stews and long-cooking roasts, the foods of chilly days, are still finding their way onto the center of the plate.Meat department executives...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Michael R. Taylor, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's acting undersecretary for food safety, said the nation's food safety programs must be improved, and to that end, he said, the government is...
WASHINGTON -- A splashy new promotional campaign designed to educate consumers, particularly women, on the nutritional benefits of milk will be launched next month.The National Milk Processor Promotion Board's $52...
With limited supplies of some popular fish, retailers expect to substitute comparable species and rely more heavily on farm-raised products this year.That is according to an SN poll of retailers about predictions for...
The nation's record high production of beef, pork and poultry last year is expected to continue in 1995.As a result, the lower wholesale prices from the abundant supplies that appeared last year also are expected to...
FALLS CHURCH, Va. -- The National-American Wholesale Grocers' Association here and the National Grocers Association, Reston, Va., have canceled their jointly sponsored meat operations conference, which had been held...