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52 Availability issues Discounter growth in free-from appears to be held back by a lack of reliable [...]

The clinically studied formulas address common women's health concerns. Nature's Bounty, a Nestle Health Science Company, has unveiled two new products in its Optimal Solutions line of dietary supplements. Hair [...]

Will the recession, if it is a recession, cut into USA frozen food sales? You can't tell for sure by studying year-to-year statistics, because the housing bubble didn't burst until [...]

The United States dominates the North American frozen food market, of course. But Canada and Mexico are getting in on the action, too, and with the North American Free Trade [...]

FOR QUITE SOME TIME, GROCERS HAVE STRUGGLED TO VIEW GENERAL MERCHANDISE CATEGORIES as profit centers for their stores. More often, they carried some items out of a sense of duty [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Turkish discounter BIM saw sales and earnings during 2013 rise by more than one-fifth, driven by new store openings and like-for-like growth. In the 12 months to [...]

Byline: Hannah Abdulla The convenience channel has become a source of growth for larger grocers in a number of markets. Even in the US, home of the big-box store, major [...]

Byline: Dean Best Online will be the latest driver of Wal-Mart Stores' growth, the chief of the world's largest retailer's e-commerce operation has claimed. Neil Ashe, president and CEO of [...]

Byline: Michelle Russell Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores has revealed expansion plans for its Canada division that will see it invest US$450m in supercentre and distribution facility projects. Outlining the plans [...]

Byline: Katy Askew Wal-Mart's EDLP strategy has successfully driven sales growth in the second quarter, as shoppers across the globe increasingly seek out low prices. Significantly, the company was able [...]

PepsiCo, Inc. announced a new global structure and strengthened management team -- steps in PepsiCo's move to become a fully integrated, global food and beverage company. According to a release, [...]

Byline: Michelle Russell Tesco is forecast to grow faster than its three main global rivals, driven by a focus on emerging markets, according to research from IGD. Analysts at IGD [...]

Byline: Michelle Russell UK independent dairy firm Wyke Farms has said that it is hoping to secure a more permanent listing with Wal-Mart Stores in the US this year. Speaking [...]

Byline: Mark Hamstra SMALL-FORMAT STORES might be as important to Wal-Mart's future expansion as its EDLP platform has been to its historic growth. 'It represents a long-term opportunity for them, [...]

Byline: Katy Humphries Seiyu, the Japanese arm of US retailer Wal-Mart Stores, is preparing to ramp up expansion in the market. The Japanese retailer recently completed restructuring its unprofitable outlets [...]

Byline: Petah Marian Russia's leading grocery retailer X5 Retail Group's acquisition of soft discounter Kopeyka will give it a stronger base to drive aggressive growth plans in a heavily fragmented, [...]

Byline: just-drinks.com editorial team Jones Soda has signed a deal with Walmart, which will see the beverage firm's products appear in the US retailer’s stores. The deal, announced yesterday (27 [...]

The economic and competitive environment is brutal, but, as the old saw goes, there may be some opportunities to make those lemons into lemonade. While Wal-Mart's 'Win-Play-Show' strategy could result [...]

NEW YORK - Family Dollar Stores is working to broaden its appeal to middle-income customers to keep sales growing once the economy recovers, R. James Kelly, president and chief operating [...]

Byline: Eugene Vorotnikov US retail giant Wal-Mart has said it remains committed to entering the Russian market, despite reports that Stephan Fanderl, CEO of Wal-Mart Russia, has quit over frustration [...]

MATTHEWS, N.C. - Family Dollar is acting quickly to capitalize on the demand for value and convenience. The chain expects about 40% of its 6,660 stores will have shelf space [...]

Wal-Mart may have stoked a reputation for sameness but over the years it has amassed quite a diverse collection of store formats, and it's a portfolio undergoing massive change. Most [...]

ISSAQUAH, Wash. - Costco Wholesale Corp. here is taking its international expansion slowly. The membership-club operator ranks 8th on SN's list of global food retailers (see Page 14). Of its [...]

Over the last several years Wal-Mart has worked on 'Project Impact,' an initiative intended to enhance two new marketing pillars, 'fresh' and 'seasonal.' The company intends to use these offerings [...]

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores expects to boost its U.S. growth in 15 'opportunity markets,' Eduardo Castro-Wright, president and chief executive officer of the company's Wal-Mart U.S. division, said here [...]

NATICK, Mass. - It appears BJ's Wholesale Club won't have to search very far for its next chief executive after all. Herb Zarkin, the veteran chairman of the retailer who [...]

Meanwhile, WAL-MART STORES INC. plans to open 191 stores in fiscal 2009 and between 142 to 157 stores in fiscal 2010, down from the 218 stores opened in fiscal 2008. [...]

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - While private-label dollar growth historically has been driven by higher prices, unit sales are now growing as well, according to the Nielsen Co. Store-brand volume grew 3% [...]

America has lots of problems, but a lack of stores isn't one of them. No presidential candidates are campaigning on the platform of accelerating the expansion of food retailers. Neither [...]

SHOREVIEW, Minn. - Along with the rapid growth in the number of retail convenient-care clinics in the United States, 10 third-party companies representing a total of 139 clinics called it [...]

BARCELONA, Spain - Wal-Mart's India operations could account for as much as $10 billion in sales within the next five to seven years, according to an executive with Bharti Enterprises, [...]

The subprime mortgage crisis has come to roost for retailers relying on new stores for growth. The slowdown in home sales has slowed migrations to places like Florida, which for [...]

When Wal-Mart Stores opened the first Sam's Wholesale Club in Midwest City, Okla., in 1983 it was intended as a vehicle for parent Wal-Mart Stores to enter urban markets. Within [...]

GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. - Rick Dreiling, the former Safeway executive now in charge of Dollar General Corp., promised changes at the neighborhood discounter. In a conference call reviewing results of a [...]

There's nothing so exciting in retailing as a chain expanding at a breakneck pace. But such rollouts eventually slow or end, often accompanied by lots of soul-searching. That's been the [...]

PHILADELPHIA - Wal-Mart Stores will increase its focus on building supercenters in the Northeast in the near future, with 20 units planned for 2008, including 10 this month. Shoppers in [...]

The club channel has been a favorite of the natural and organic set for some time as an alternative to mainstream supermarkets. Though club stores carry fewer SKUs, the top [...]

The law of supply and demand is catching up with the emerging retail health clinic business. With high-profile chains like CVS, Walgreens and Wal-Mart projecting rapid growth for clinics in [...]

Although a confidential report from its former advertising agency concluded that the reputation for discounts at the nation's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, has worked against its efforts to move upscale, a [...]

The pace of global food retailing for the Top 25 players picked up in 2006, with companies continuing to rationalize market strengths. Wal-Mart Stores, the leader of the pack, pulled [...]

BELLEVUE, Wash. - Costco Wholesale Corp. said it plans to improve its financial picture in 2007 by boosting warehouse unit numbers and stripping out operational inefficiency, executives said at the [...]

At first blush it seemed last week's business media headlines heralded supermarket nirvana. 'Wal-Mart Scales Back Expansion,' stated the Wall Street Journal. 'Wal-Mart to Slow Growth in U.S. Market,' blared [...]

TEANECK, N.J. - Wal-Mart Stores uttered the words supermarket operators have longed to hear last week when the Bentonville, Ark.-based retail juggernaut said it would moderate its growth pace in [...]

One of the most intract-able problems facing the food distribution industry is that of over-storing - the situation that in many parts of the country there are too many food [...]

Although Wal-Mart's growth rates are still extraordinary, they have steadily decelerated over the past five years, outlined a report by INFORMATION RESOURCES, INC. Two trends in consumer shopping behavior, according [...]

* WAL-MART STORES INC. will not bow to opponents who say the retailer is too big and will continue to grow as long as customers keep coming to its stores, [...]

* Additionally, WAL-MART data shows that last year's sales at 275 stores that serve predominantly Hispanic communities rose 9%, exceeding the roughly 4% growth in sales at individual stores in [...]