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As some 22,000 buyers converged in New York this month to preview the hot sellers at the American International Toy Fair, supermarket retailers said they are concentrating on carrying better quality toys with higher price points that have name...
SAN DIEGO -- William Winston Deardorff Jr., a prominent third-generation produce grower and chairman of the California Strawberry Commission, died Feb. 13 after suffering a heart attack during the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- It's not enough for retailers just to merchandise confectionery. They have to be proficient at specialized merchandising to tap into sales growth from impulse buying.That was the message hammered home by Joe Sireno, director of...
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N.J. -- The Eastern Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association has unveiled a marketing plan for this year that will include a celebrity and incentives for active retailer participation.The plan will be announced next month to the consumer...
Ongoing cooperative efforts between supermarkets and manufacturers to boost distribution efficiency are proving a strong motivator for working together. But players on both sides of the net say trust is still an issue."Even with ECR, our...
ATLANTA -- The GMA-FMI Joint Industry Coupon Committee endorsed two scannable bar codes as standards to facilitate couponing when it met here on Feb. 16.The codes are an extended version of UCC/EAN-128, believed to be vital to support wide-scale...
Color enhancers are casting bright glints for future sales and profits in the hair color category at supermarkets.These new enhancing products are attracting new consumers to an established base of users of semipermanent coloring, according to...
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Supervalu has doubled the number of companies it is communicating with through electronic data interchange in the last two years, and the wholesaler-retailer is far from through yet."We went from 500 to 1,000 partners in the last...
DETROIT -- Paczki may be popping up next year in markets all across the United States, thanks to the efforts of the newly formed National Paczki Committee here."In terms of exposure, we accomplished in just a few weeks what we thought might take...
