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The bloody 'maturation' of the club industry during 1993 and 1994 raises an obvious question: Does the same fate await the supercenters now being rapidly rolled out by Kmart and [...]

Eleven years ago, Cub struck fear into the hearts of retailers. Today the names of the invaders are different, but the message is the same. Now the invaders are companies [...]

GM plans $877M retooling of pickup plant in Flint General Motors Co. will spend $877 million on improvements at the Flint factory that builds large pickups including the Chevrolet Silverado, [...]

A numbers-focused look at the week's headlines: 3 The number of stores Meijer Inc. seeks to own in the city of Detroit. The company opened its first store in Detroit [...]

Meijer, a family-owned regional retailer celebrating its 70th anniversary, achieved 2003 sales of nearly $12 billion, a 9% gain over the previous year's sales--even though Meijer's 158 food/general merchandise stores [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer Inc. was established in the midst of the Great Depression when Hendrik Meijer, a local barber, purchased $338.76 worth of merchandise on credit in 1934 [...]

Expanding Meijer plans to hire 4,400 in Michigan Walker-based Meijer Inc. plans to hire 4,400 workers in Michigan in the months ahead because it is growing beyond its current 100-plus [...]

Last month we analyzed supermarkets' competitive advantages over supercenters and the weak food execution of many Wal-Mart and K mart supercenters. We conclude this month with broader assessments of these [...]

Meijer Inc is accelerating its expansion into Cleveland and Cincinnati, OH, in a pre-emptive move to shut out competitors. The company may also be considering moving into Chicago, IL. Meijer has focused on locations in medium-sized cities in Ohio and Indiana and has opened a total of 27 new stores. Its total of 80 stores have per-store average sales of approximately $56 million and the company reports an annual volume of about $4.5 billion., GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- In an effort to keep supercenter operators from usurping the field, Meijer here is reaching into its deep pockets to roll out its hypermarket format over [...]

Meijer Inc., one of the earliest pioneers of the supercenter format, was born 75 years ago because Hendrik Meijer's barber shop business was slowing down - and because neither A&P [...]

Meijer Inc. is making it easier for commuters in its home state to rideshare.Officials from the State of Michigan approached the Grand Rapids-based Meijer with the idea to share some [...]

As a regional supercenter, Meijer has a lot to offer customers. The retailer's pharmacy department is no exception. The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based chain (winner of SN Whole Health's 2007 Enterprise [...]

Most of Our Customers think first of fresh, high-quality food when they think of health and wellness at Meijer. With our launch earlier this year of Meijer Organics, we took [...]

Say the Word 'Supercenter' and consumers think price, convenience and value. Say 'Meijer,' and they think health. Sound like a stretch? Not when consumers can visit a single store for [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - While acknowledging that Meijer here is largely responsible for the out-of-stocks in its stores, Robert Mooney, the chain's vice president of distribution operations, still wants manufacturers [...]

KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Meijer Stores had the second-most profitable year in its history in 2004 after implementing a sweeping cost-cutting initiative and re-thinking its merchandising, the chain's newly promoted president [...]

Family foundations that pay family members to serve as CEO could come under closer regulatory scrutiny, industry executives and consultants say. Organizations such as the Taylor-based Richard & Jane Manoogian [...]

Ann Arbor considers $70M plan for new city hall The city of Ann Arbor has proposed $70 million for construction of a new city hall building in the new 2006-11 [...]

* Meijer Inc., Grand Rapids, plans to open nine new stores in 2005 as the supercenter chain attempts to fend off growing competition from Wal-Mart and other stores. Meijer operates [...]

Grand Rapids-based Meijer Inc. increased its share of metro Detroit's grocery market by more than 2 percentage points last year, or about the same amount of share that Kroger and [...]

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A West Coast dock strike has local retailers worried about inventories and auto suppliers scrambling to maintain deliveries to customers' plants. A lockout at 29 docks that employ about 10,000 [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Supercenter pioneer Meijer Inc. continues to bring its own unique version of the format to consumers in the Midwest. Some of the chain's recent openings reflect [...]

Plans for retail supercenter heading for a June showdown that some think could end in lawsuits, ballot referendum Renovator Charles Moon greets neighbors as he walks through Westerville's Uptown neighborhood, [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.-Heartland retailer Meijer will soon unveil a prototype store that dramatically revamps the superstore's merchandising strategy by adopting a cross-merchandised approach. The change comes as the family owned [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Two Meijer stores here are serving as testing grounds for new concepts that will make it into the retailer's next generation format, set to debut next [...]

Meijer Inc of Grand Rapids, MI, is leaving the video rental business, which may be partly due to a boycott by the American Family Assn of Tupelo, MS. Existing video rental space will be converted to photo studios and video rental departments are not being established at new store locations. Meijer's ranking in video rentals has gone from No 9 in 1994 to No 28 in 1996., GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer here plans to exit the video rental business, a move that may have been influenced by a prolonged boycott by a conservative pressure group. The [...]

NEW YORK--Mass market retailers are looking for new avenues to sales growth, and a number of leading chains are testing or rolling out new formats in that quest. In some [...]

HOFFMAN ESTATES, III.--Sears Holdings Corp. has tapped Walmart veteran James Haworth to serve as executive vice president and president of retail services, effective January 31. He succeeds Kevin Holt, a [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer here said last week it would start a new membership-wholesale division called Source-Club, which plans to open membership clubs throughout the Midwest. The clubs will [...]

Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Meijer, Inc. has an aggressive capital expenditures program planned for the coming years, including the opening of nine new ground-up stores in 2005. 'Opening eight or nine [...]

Meijer Stores is operating smarter since it brought an outside firm in to help it edit its product selection and improve its inventory-management processes. Meijer hired Accenture in February 2001 [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The pharmacy department is getting a higher profile at Meijer. For one thing, the retailer is moving the pharmacy from its traditional location in the back [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- The new openness at Meijer extends beyond the chain's relationships with vendors. The family-owned and -operated retailer is increasingly willing to tap the experience of outsiders [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Each operator of supercenters offers its own spin on the concept, Meijer cochairman and chief executive officer Hank Meijer explains, defined in part by the products [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Terry Griffith has been with Meijer since 1967 and has spent most of his career on the food side of the business. Two years ago he [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Meijer started out as a grocer, and the company still makes one of its goals to be the leading supermarket in town. As a result, the [...]

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- While perishables may represent the glamour side of the food business because of their instant sensory appeal, the center-store grocery departments can also provide important points [...]