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Ahold, Zaandam, Netherlands, last week said consolidated sales rose 38.4% in 1997 to $24.6 billion (NLG 50.5 billion), mainly due to the full year's contribution of Stop & Shop Cos., Quincy, Mass., which it acquired in July 1996. Fourth-quarter...
Ahold Expanding Its Lifestyletion of Lifestyle, Ahold's new in-store publication, will be even larger than the first, according to Marketing Management.The magazine, developed for Ahold here by Forth Worth, Texas-based Marketing Management's...
Motivation to begin swatting the Millennium Bug, the computer problem where systems cannot correctly recognize dates past Jan. 1, 2000, has been increasing in the supermarket industry. Tests of credit cards that expire in the new millennium have...
Grand Union Names Presidention Co. here has named Gary Philbin president and chief merchandising officer.Philbin joins Grand Union from Cub Foods, Stillwater, Minn., where he was executive vice president in charge of merchandising and operations...
Harris Teeter President to Retirerp., parent company of Harris Teeter here, said last week Edward S. Dunn Jr., president of the supermarket chain, plans to retire in May 1998 to pursue other interests.Dunn, 54, joined Harris Teeter in 1974 as...
ZAANDAM, Netherlands (FNS) -- Ahold here is on the lookout for more acquisitions in the United States following its $1.8 billion purchase of Stop & Shop Cos., Quincy, Mass., but no deal is expected in the near future.Cees van der Hoeven, Ahold's...
MAULDIN, S.C. -- Bi-Lo here has launched a frequent-shopper card program, making it the third chain within the Ahold organization to do so.Bi-Lo's preferred-customer program, which began six weeks ago, follows a frequent-shopper card program...
ZAANDAM, Netherlands -- Ahold here has exported another one of its U.S. supermarket banners to Malaysia, though it sports a different concept.The Dutch retailer and the Kuok Group, its Malaysian joint-venture partner, introduced a discount food...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Tops Markets here has told vendors it intends to bill them an allowance of 10% on goods handled at the $65 million state-of-the-art distribution center it opened in September.The unusual demand, which the chain said is intended to...
NEW YORK -- As 1996 draws to a close, it seems increasingly clear that Ahold -- one of the world's few global food retailers -- has set an expansion pace and breadth that are without peer. Quincy, Mass., giving it a sixth U.S. chain. The...