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NEW YORK -- Capital Cities/ABC here has announced a joint venture with America Online, Vienna, Va., to develop an interactive fashion and lifestyle channel.ications, such as Women's Wear Daily and W.The joint venture was announced by Ted Leonsis...
Retailers using the Internet today say security concerns are not a critical issue for them because they transmit proprietary information over separate private networks."You're safer that way," said Joe Fortes, network administrator at Raley's...
Fitness tapes are still tops among special-interest videos at supermarkets. Following fitness, sports tapes, including National Football League videos, wrestling, and hunting and fishing titles, were mentioned most frequently by the retailers...
NORTHFIELD, Ill. -- Kraft Foods here and A.C. Nielsen, Schaumburg, Ill., have developed a new ethnic marketing reference that can help supermarkets with a large Hispanic customer base better serve their clientele.A spin-off of the measure, created...
Winn-Dixie Names Unit Merchandiserie Stores here has named Randy Manning deli-bakery merchandiser for its Midwest division, which is headquartered in Louisville, Ky.Manning was most recently deli-bakery merchandiser for the 1,180-unit chain's...
MOBILE, Ala. -- David W. Morrow, chairman and chief executive officer of Delchamps here, assured stockholders at the annual meeting last week that the company would return to profitability this year by making itself more competitive in the grocery...
LOS ANGELES -- A judge here has dismissed six of eight criminal charges against Steven A. Soto, president of the Mexican American Grocers Association here.tion the court for the remaining charges to be dismissed as well.The charges involve Soto...
HONG KONG -- Enormous opportunities await food manufacturers and retailers in upcoming years in Asian markets, Chris J. Nelson, chief executive officer of Hong Kong-based Dairy Farm Co., told a workshop session at the Food Marketing Institute's...
SALT LAKE CITY -- Smith's Food & Drug Centers here said competitive store openings in most of its markets and aggressive price competition in recession-plagued southern California contributed to decreases in earnings and same-store sales for the...