Private Label

MINNEAPOLIS -Sunflower Market, the affordable organic supermarket format from Supervalu here, will open its second new store, in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Aug. 30.

LEEDS, England -- Major U.K. supermarket operator ASDA will sponsor the Best Packaging Design category, one of 12 categories in which the 2006 Green Awards gives awards. According to the producers of the awards, Satellite Marketing Communications, ASDA's sponsorship will serve to lend the awards even wider appeal allow them to be taken more seriously.

LEEDS, England -- Major U.K. supermarket operator ASDA will sponsor the Best Packaging Design category, one of 12 categories in which the 2006 Green Awards gives awards. According to the producers of the awards, Satellite Marketing Communications, ASDA's sponsorship will serve to lend the awards even wider appeal allow them to be taken more seriously.

NEW YORK -- In a development that likely will give packaged goods marketers little comfort, a new report says that consumers are warming to Wal-Mart's private label brands.

NATICK, Mass. -- Berkley & Jensen's Ultra Care Laundry Detergent with Softener, an item in the signature private label program offered by BJ's Wholesale Club here, received the 2006 Home & Health Award from New York-based Private Label Manufacturers Association. Acton, Mass. Wright Design designed the product's packaging.

SAN ANTONIO -- H.E. Butt Grocery Co. here has signed a three-year agreement with Oakville, Ont.-based Pethealth, Inc. to offer pet health insurance and microchip technology to the retailer's pet-owning shoppers in Texas.

SAN ANTONIO -- H.E. Butt Grocery Co. here has signed a three-year agreement with Oakville, Ont.-based Pethealth, Inc. to offer pet health insurance and microchip technology to the retailer's pet-owning shoppers in Texas.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Publix Super Markets, Inc. is looking into extending its health-minded GreenWise brand to the meat case, according to a report in the Lakeland Ledger.