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In this year's listing of the 50 most influential people in mass retailing, MMR is inaugurating a new feature. Ten executives have been singled out by the publication's editors and [...]

NEW YORK -- The last year has seen pressure unmatched for decades on retail chain executives. A recession that began in the United States but quickly became global has created [...]

This is no time for category management to come up short. More than ever, the pressures of modern retailing cry out for supermarket operators and their suppliers to work closely [...]

'You've got to push the envelope. The more you push, the more opportunities you'll find,' says Jeff Noddle, president, CEO and COO of Supervalu. These days, Noddle, who took over [...]

With its firm Activity Based Costing foundation, the developing strategic alliance of Kraft and Supervalu suggests a major step toward bona fide 'best practices' progress. Although it may seem like [...]

The excitement is palpable at Supervalu's headquarters in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie. The reason is 'Advantage from Supervalu,' a massive project in the works for more than two [...]

With more than 1,100 traditional retail food stores that wear popular names like Acme, Albertsons, and Jewel-Osco under its corporate umbrella, Supervalu, Inc., of Eden Prairie, Minn., depends heavily on [...]

Reporting on the results of a recent research case study, Sylvia Dempsey and Ruth Vance show how the management accounting team at Musgrave SuperValu Centra in Cork city have moved [...]

Several years ago, critics were proclaiming that wholesalers were in trouble and needed to reinvent themselves to survive. This year, some are doing quite well, often without the massive changes [...]

Like other areas within Supervalu, the produce category is undergoing change. Charged with orchestrating that transformation is Ted Campbell, a 28-year veteran in the grocery business, who is the wholesaler's [...]

Richard Niemann Sr., president of Niemann Foods, Quincy, Ill., has one complaint about Supervalu's Advantage program. 'The only problem is that the change may be too fast,' he says. The [...]

Coupon redemption services, NCH Promotional Services and Carolina Manufacturer Services, will test a single count of coupons, rather than the usual double count, redeemed at Supervalu stores for Kimberly-Clark products. The experiments will begin in late Mar 1995 and early Apr 1995 and continue until June 1995. Kimberly-Clark's coupon data will be merged with the retail clearinghouses' databases to process coupon payments in approximately one week rather than one month., Two efficiency-driven 'single-count' coupon processing tests getting under way in coming weeks promise to accelerate retailer reimbursement and manufacturer access to marketing data. The industry's two largest manufacturer coupon redemption [...]

SUPERVALU officials decided to maintain Wetterau's Homebest line of private label merchandise when it acquired the company in 1993. Some executives initially opposed the idea in the belief that a second private label would take away market share from SUPERVALU's own Chateau line. The decision has been proven to be a good one as the two different private label lines are performing very well., SUPERVALU has maintained two separate private label lines since acquiring Wetterau, and the wholesaler says the strategy is paying off. Minneapolis-based wholesaler SUPERVALU is using two distinct nonfoods programs to [...]

Supervalu Chmn and CEO Michael W. Wright says that he plans to deal with the advent of new food competitors, technology advances and cost spirals by enlarging the company's wholesale and retail portfolios. Wright said that his strategy involved the nurturing of the retail aspects of the company from both the inside and outside, in addition to the acquisition and efficient consolidation of other wholesalers. Wright said he did not subscribe to the concept of reengineering now being implemented by other wholesalers., MINNEAPOLIS--Supervalu's future is all about size. That's the thinking behind Michael W. Wright's strategy for the nation's largest food wholesaler and 14th largest corporate food retailer, as detailed in an [...]

Byline: JON SPRINGER NEW YORK - Supervalu's attempt to 'hyper-localize' its stores is changing the role - and the potential compensation - of its store managers. Store managers who succeed [...]

Byline: Dean Best Wal-Mart Stores executive Santiago Roces has become the new CEO and president of Save-A-Lot, the US hard discount chain owned by Supervalu Inc. Roces replaces Bill Shaner, [...]

Byline: Jon Springer IN JANUARY, Supervalu quietly closed the Market at Harbor Heights, a boutique grocery store in downtown Norfolk, Va., opened by its Farm Fresh division only three years [...]

Byline: Katie Smith Supervalu has entered an agreement to sell its logistics and supply chain management subsidiary, Total Logistic Control (TLC). The retailer announced yesterday (8 December) that TLC will [...]

MINNEAPOLIS - The retirements last week of two top Supervalu executives and the reassignment of others signal the beginning of a new, more retail-oriented phase at the company, analysts told [...]

In 2006, when Supervalu announced that it was going to acquire most of the Albertsons chain, the move was hailed by some analysts as a brilliant stroke of deal-making. The [...]

* To increase sales, supermarkets including SUPERVALU INC. and GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO. are engaging their suppliers in discussions to lower wholesale prices. Before getting companies to agree [...]

MINNEAPOLIS - From the store floor to the corporate boardroom, Supervalu has embarked on a mission to create an inclusive environment where women and minorities have an opportunity for advancement, [...]

CHICAGO - Supervalu's Jewel-Osco division debuted its entry into the small-format store race last week with a location in this city's trendy Lincoln Park neighborhood. The 16,000-square-foot store, dubbed Urban [...]

Byline: Simon Shifrin Kathy Lowe will open the Treasure Valley's first flexible commercial kitchen for the region's independent bakers, cooks and chefs next month, the outcome of a meandering path [...]

Supermarket companies are projecting capital expenditures for the current fiscal year that are about even with last year's totals, although a handful are ramping up their investments. According to recent [...]

CALCULATING THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT for capital projects devoted to sustainability is opening a whole new area of potential savings for supermarket retailers. But it's complicated work. 'Determining ROI for [...]

SUPERVALU'S customers are visiting less often, but spending more each time. Chairman and CEO Jeff Noddle commented that he is 'seeing evidence of customers managing their budget and focusing on [...]

MINNEAPOLIS - Supervalu here said last week that shoppers seem to be seeking out more promotions, buying more store brands and using more coupons as a result of the soft [...]

MINNEAPOLIS - Target Corp. here expects to handle perishable distribution completely on its own 'within a time frame earlier than four or five years,' Gregg Steinhafel, president, told analysts last [...]

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. - Supervalu Pharmacies here has designed its own unified computer system to manage the pharmacy systems in over 900 stores. The new ARx technology is expected to [...]

MINNEAPOLIS - Supervalu will shutter its five Sunflower Markets natural and organic stores after a two-year test, a move observers said will allow the company to focus more attention on [...]

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. - Supervalu's latest pharmacy strategy is focused on making traditional drug stores irrelevant to its customers. 'Our goal is to create a pharmacy within our supermarkets that [...]

NEW YORK - Supervalu plans to 'think more globally' in terms of expanding its various store formats, Jeff Noddle, chairman, president and chief executive officer, said at a conference here [...]

SUPERVALU, which expects to spend $1.2 billion for the year on revamping and opening new stores, is using numerous sources--loyalty cards, studies, census data etc.--to get to know customers. The [...]

Minneapolis-based SUPERVALU's acquisition of ALBERTSONS in May 2006 transformed the company internally as well as externally. Supervalu now operates 71% of its stores in markets with populations exceeding two million [...]

LAS VEGAS - Restaurant-quality, healthy and convenient meal solutions are the staple of Supervalu's vision for the future. The retailer/wholesaler's executive vice president of merchandising and marketing, Duncan Mac Naughton, [...]

For the past year, Supervalu's Sunflower Market has played the value-price hand from its place at the natural and organics table. This would seem to be a sound approach, given [...]

NEW YORK - Supervalu is seeing more upside from remodeling its Albertsons stores in Southern California than it anticipated when it acquired them, Jeff Noddle, chairman and chief executive officer, [...]

MINNEAPOLIS - In a move it said would optimize its distribution network in the wake of the Albertsons merger, Supervalu here last week said it will consolidate three distribution centers [...]