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Delhaize Group-owned Hannaford Supermarkets, launched its newly designed interactive web site, built by Micros' e-commerce solutions subsidiary Fry, according to Planetretail.net. Customers can use the site to send shopping lists to their mobile devices, create profiles to alert them of aller...

Stronger retailer-manufacturer partnerships and greater investments in new product development and innovation are essential if store brands want to keep the big market share gains they achieved during the recession and lay the foundation for even more growth as the economy returns to normal. Get ...

To facilitate connections between US buyers and Ontario's private-label, health/wellness food and beverage suppliers, the Ontario government organizes introductions, trade missions and events. Ontario Food Exports, the exporting unit of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, ho...

Walmart will be offering its exclusive Hard Candy Kal-eye-descope and Meteor-eyes baked shadows with a mini eye shadow primer at no additional cost between September and November, according to drugstorenews.com. Hard Candy eye shadow primer, although not sold as an individual product, has ach...

PLMA has convened a special Industry Roundtable - "Store Brands 2010: Post-Recession Strategies for Private Label" - and invited twelve highly-placed store brand executives to discuss strategies that suppliers and retailers should pursue to hold on to gains and ensure future stability and growth. Th...

A Save-A-Lot promoting a new store opening in Louisiana decided to go directly to potential customers in the area with bags of free store brand groceries, according to Retailwire.com. In a test in a small town about an hour outside of Baton Rouge, Save-A-Lot delivered a bag filled with $10 - ...

Weis Markets, Sunbury, PA, has launched its new Market Street deli line, a high quality sliced deli meat program. Market Street products are trans fat, gluten and MSG free. The initial roll out includes nine main-stay items and is expected to nearly double over the next twelve months to include ...

An astounding 62 percent of surveyed shoppers that earn under $35,000 per year consider themselves worse off than a year ago, and this sentiment ripples through consumers at all income brackets this back-to-school season, reveals new research from the recently released report: "SymphonyIRI Group Spe...

Sustainability is moving up the industry's agenda as Wal-Mart and other large retailers make it a priority. But there's much confusion about what sustainability really means and what its impact will be on retailers and private label. Simon Barnes, a leading industry consultant specializing in sustai...

Lowes Foods raised $2,783 last month for local humane societies through sales of its store brand pet products, reports Supermarketnews.com. For the month of July, 1% of all Paws-brand product sales went to the purchase of products for humane societies in Charlotte, Raleigh, Winston-Salem and Wil...




