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LAS VEGAS -- Information Resources Inc. President and Chief Executive Officer Scott W. Klein encouraged 1,500 attendees of IRI's "Changing the Game" summit here yesterday to tap into the $126 billion incremental sales opportunities presented by...
LOS ANGELES -- Tesco USA said it has hired Deutsch LA, the West Coast branch of Interpublic Group, to handle advertising and marketing for the Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market stores it will begin opening later this year.
TORONTO Acknowledging problems that go beyond supply chain glitches, the new leaders of Loblaw Cos. here last week laid out a long-term plan to fix the embattled retailer on several fronts. Loblaw will lower prices, increase private-label...
As fortified beverage introductions continue to flood the marketplace, their functional claims are becoming more targeted. Whether they're designed to promote clearer skin, for weight control, to build stronger bones or to curb the symptoms of...
Vitamins and minerals are so last year. Everyone who's read a health magazine in the supermarket checkout aisle, or watched an appearance of Nicholas Perricone or Steven Pratt on Oprah, knows it's micronutrients such as flavonoids, carotenoids...
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. Alliance Marketing, a cooperative retail marketing group serving about 200 independent supermarkets in the Southeast, has launched its own advertising agency, called Ad Solutions Group, based here, to serve members of the co...
As her 2-year-old son played with a pint-size shopping cart and a bottle of Kidfresh brand bottled water, Renee Sheppard browsed an assortment of all-natural boxed lunches. Sheppard is raising her son on a vegetarian diet. So as soon as she saw a...
CHANDLER, Ariz. Bashas' here is positioning itself as a discount-friendly retailer by expanding a program that teaches people how to use coupons more efficiently. Free Coupon Sense classes are now being offered in select Bashas' units in the Metro...
Although new grooming products have been arriving on supermarket shelves faster than a 5 o'clock shadow, consumers remain receptive to the next big thing. Technological innovations to razors and related products seem so numerous these days they...