Industry

SALT LAKE CITY - Flower retailers exhibiting at the 2003 Super Floral Show in Salt Lake City are turning their attention to supermarkets as they seek to grow business, The Associated Press reports.

CHICAGO - Colton, Calif.-based Stater Bros. and Boulder, Colo.-based Wild Oats Markets selected AccessVia's Web dSignShop to print signs and labels for all of their store locations, AccessVia announced this week during the Retail Systems event in Chicago.

GENEVA - Producers of regional food and drink specialties from around the world on Wednesday pushed for a global trade pact to fight for stronger protection in the World Trade Organisation of their geographical names, The Financial Times reports.

OTTAWA - Canada's agricultural minister is putting pressure on the United States to reopen its borders to beef shipments, arguing there is no scientific justification to maintain the ban. Nearly 2,000 tests for mad cow disease in Canada have turned out negative.

NEW YORK - The two leading U.S. drug store chains, Walgreen Co. and CVS Corp., both reported higher same-store sales in May.

ALLENTOWN, PA -- The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board plans to open liquor stores inside major supermarkets in the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg areas, perhaps by the end of the year.

MINNEAPOLIS - A Duluth, Minn.-based grocery chain intends to submit a bid for 31 Rainbow Foods Stores, according to a report in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

CINCINNATI, -- The Kroger Co. today announced that it is teaming up with Newman's Own to support America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest domestic hunger relief organization.