NEW YORK - Experts speaking at the World Diabetes Congress painted a grim picture of the year 2025, when they estimate 7% of the global population will be suffering from the disease.
Ingles Markets here said it plans to continue increasing its capital expenditures over the next few years. Robert P. Ingle, chief executive officer, said the company expects to spend $100 million in fiscal 2007, compared with $94.3 million in...
Ahold here on Friday said it would accelerate introductions of its value improvement program in its Stop & Shop and Giant-Landover banners after reporting that weak economic conditions and increased competitive activity led to a "very tough"...
Albertsons LLC will close five stores in Texas -- four in the Dallas-Fort Worth market and a fifth in Longview -- that the company said were unprofitable.
Food Lion will begin remodeling some of the 321 individual stores throughout the company that have not been remodeled in several years as the chain has focused instead on marketwide revamps, Food Lion executives said at the annual investor...
AMSTERDAM - Dissident investors pressuring Ahold here to enhance value through a sale of its U.S. retail assets said Thursday they were talking to other significant investors for the purposes of gaining support.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a move union officials said would provide added clout in contract negotiations with supermarket employers, seven San Francisco Bay area locals of the United Food and Commercial Workers have agreed to combine into a single...
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. - Dollar General here will shutter 400 locations next year and slow its development pace for the next two years, the discount chain said yesterday. The company will take $138 million in charges, which include $74 million for...
NEW YORK - Super Suppers, a leading meal-assembly company, is teaming up on recipe development with Everyday Food magazine, published by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, starting next month, officials said. The collaboration will begin at Super...
WEST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. - Shaw's Supermarkets, a division of Supervalu, Minneapolis, began its 7th Annual Spirit of Giving Food Drive to benefit America's Second Harvest Food Banks, this week with celebrity spokesman Troy Brown, a wide receiver...