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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...

Intermarche and Netto, the two food store brands of the Mousquetaires, are looking for new private label suppliers. MDD Expo has been entrusted by the Mousquetaires to organize a sourcing day on October 5th, 2010 in Bondoufle, France, in the presence of buyers, marketers and CEO of Intermarche an...

UK grocery retailer Tesco is to launch its own range of paid for magazines initially comprising three titles - called 'Food', 'Home' and 'Your TV Weekly'. The Food and Home magazines are expected to launch at the end of September with a target circulation of 50,000 and a cover price of GBP1.99 (USD2...

Arcadia Group-owned fashion retailer Topshop will bring its cosmetics range to Japan, local press reports, according to Planetretail.com. The new range will be available in the countrys new flagship store which opens its doors on 16 September in Tokyo's Shinjuku shopping district. In May 2010, ...

Canadian retailer Loblaw is to expand its range of peanut free President's Choice and No Name private label goods, according to Planetretail.com. The initiative will also feature instore signage at selected stores and some bakery departments will offer goods produced at a special off-site peanut...

Private label is said to account for about 19.4% of the food market in Croatia at present, reports Foodnavigator.com. "While some recovery of annual growth levels are expected in the medium-to-longer term, they will fall short of those recorded pre-recession, with the Croatian consumer increa...

In a move to make it simpler for shoppers to identify healthy products on its shelves, Tesco has introduced new labeling for 700 products, reports Kantar Retail. Starting August 2010, the products will carry a logo such as '1 of 5 a day' and 'low salt,' that would highlight their nutritional ...

Drugstore retailer dm drogerie markt in Austria is extending its range of natural beauty care products by 110 items, or 64%, up to 283 items, reports Planetretail.com. dm is installing designated areas for the range in its stores. At the same time, dm is switching from the German BDIH product ce...

UK grocery retailer Sainsbury's has launched a full range of milk sold in plastic bags, following the success of its semi-skimmed milk in bags, according to Planetretail.net. The retailer will be the first in the UK to sell the full range, with whole milk bags launching today, 11 August and skim...

According to Smh.com.au, Coles and Woolworths are set to greatly increase their ranges of beer, wine and spirits. They will have names such as Duperrey, Coo-ee and Chateau Louise, meaning shoppers will not always know they are buying home brands. Coles and Woolworths have registered a string ...

Auchan in Russia has awarded a contract to produce private label grains and cereals for its hypermarkets to Russian Agro-Alliance, according to Planetretail.net. The producer will supply 11 SKUs, including seven in the Don Gusto standard price segment and four economy lines. Agro-Alliance is a R...