Sustainability

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market, Inc. reported a leap in sales of 20 percent, to $1.1 billion, for the 12-week quarter ended April 10. The health food supermarket chain attributed the increase, which was the company's first 12-week quarter to surpass $1 billion in sales, to 13 percent weighted average year-over-year square footage growth and comparable-store sales growth of 11.6 percent.

BOISE, Idaho -- Albertsons, Inc., based here, said yesterday that it has been named this year's winner of the "Promise to the Earth" award from the National Arbor Day Foundation. The company received the award April 30 at the Foundation's annual awards ceremonies and banquet at the Arbor Day Farm's Lied Lodge & Conference Center in Nebraska City, Neb.