Legislative, Regulatory & Legal

WASHINGTON, DC - The Food Marketing Institute has entered a partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor to educate teenagers and their parents about the laws governing the jobs and hours teens can work, and how to prevent injuries.

WASHINGTON - The Food Marketing Institute today urged the Federal Trade Commission to reevaluate its divestiture policies, especially those that limit the ability of independents and small family companies to buy divested stores.

BRUSSELS, Belgium and WASHINGTON - New efforts to regulate tobacco sales to minors are gaining ground in both Europe and the United States as the EU and a group of US Senators separately announce new agendas.

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Delhaize Group, the Belgian international food retailer, announced today the resignation of Marcel Degroof from its board of directors as a result of the fallout from an insider trading scandal.

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats on Wednesday rejected President Bush's call for permanent repeal of the estate tax, while Republicans signaled plans to turn the vote to their advantage in the fall campaign for control of Congress, The Associated Press reports.

WASHINGTON, DC - The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) has said it has agreed to work with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to develop voluntary ergonomics guidelines for retail grocery stores.

PARIS - France's Carrefour SA today said that it will open eight hypermarkets in China this year as it seeks to double its hypermarket presence in the country by 2004, Dow Jones Newswires reports.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the appeal by Visa U.S.A. and MasterCard of a ruling that made 4 million retailers part of an antitrust lawsuit, Reuters reports.