ORLANDO, Fla. -- Procter & Gamble has no place for the wasteful and inefficient practice of couponing, Durk Jager, president and chief operating officer, said in a presentation here last week.Jager, whose company is involved in a high-profile...
The Future of Distribution Is Less Distribution" was the theme of a recent speech by Mike Wright, chairman and chief executive officer of Supervalu. At his company, "the '90s will result in less distribution because we will have more technology."...
KIRKWOOD, Mo. -- Shop 'N Save Warehouse Foods here, a Supervalu subsidiary, has entered an agreement to buy six Price Chopper warehouse stores in St. Louis.The units are being purchased from Roswil Inc., also known as Price Cutter/Ramey...
There's a major business sector in big trouble these days because of the way it generates revenues.It's an industry that somehow decided to back away from the old-fashioned notion of generating profit by selling services and products, and instead...
OAK BROOK, Ill. -- Supervalu's re-engineering initiative has reached another milestone with the completed rollout of electronic mail to 240 stores in the Midwest region."We are laying down an electronic highway between us and our customers, and...
Super Food Division Creates Two Postsf Super Food Services here announced two executive appointments.James Gohsman was appointed director of merchandising, a new post. He reports to division manager Doug Stone. Gohsman most recently served as...
Imagine a wholesaler confronting one of its largest retail customers with concrete evidence that many of its business practices are simply unprofitable for both parties.The wholesaler shows that its partner is ordering an abundance of less-than...
HAZELWOOD, Mo. -- Supervalu's bakery manufacturing arm, Hazelwood Farms Bakeries, is dropping 500 low-volume products in an effort to sharpen its focus.The 500 items represented the slowest movers among the 1,400 products currently manufactured by...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu here said it expects to make considerable progress in implementing its Advantage re-engineering program in 1996. After setting up a new organizational structure during 1995, the distributor has an aggressive agenda in...
CHICAGO -- IGA plans to expand a recently introduced line of private-label commodity produce, after the first items in the line met with a warm reception on the West Coast.The line is called IGA TableFresh. Its fourth product, a 5-pound bag of...