ST. LOUIS -- The Wetterau family is moving back into the food business with a new venture that will include retailing and licensing.More than a year after Supervalu, Minneapolis, acquired 123-year-old Wetterau Inc., Hazelwood, Mo., the great...
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...
WOMELSDORF, Pa. -- The deli department at Boyer's Supervalu here took merchandising to new lengths on Super Bowl Sunday.A nine-member team of employees built a 100-foot submarine sandwich in view of customers and then proceeded to sell it by the...
Borstein Resigns From RiserRiser Foods here said Michael L. Borstein has resigned as executive vice president of the corporation and president of its American Seaway Foods subsidiary.No full-time successor has been named to the position at...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Supervalu has developed a prototype for corporate Cub Foods locations based on results from an experimental store opened more than two years ago.That experimental store was opened in late 1991 in Apple Valley, Minn.The prototype...
NEW YORK -- Cub Foods is already getting positive results from the first phase of a reset of all food and nonfood categories using computerized shelf-space management. The program, which began in the spring of last year, involves only the 55...
Pet food is becoming a classic case of a supermarket category under attack by specialized retailers.And as a result, sales and margins are in danger of going to the dogs.Chains are now fighting back to head off the inroads being made by...
GREENVILLE, Miss. -- Services have been held here for Morris Lewis Jr., a leader in the grocery industry for more than 40 years and one-time chairman of Supervalu, Minneapolis.esident of both Lewis Grocer and its retail business, Sunflower Food...
Dos Filename %%s6n18&a.arc%%r for pet food sales, and supermarkets are following a number of strategies to tussle with competitive formats. Some examples: Carrying more top-of-the-line dog foods and fancier treats.-- Rainbow Foods, Hopkins, Minn...