Ahold Delhaize

AMSTERDAM -- Dutch supermarket retailer Royal Ahold NV said today that it has successfully completed the sale of its 100 percent interest in Supermercados Stock S.A. to A.J. Vierci.

AMSTERDAM -- Ahold will publish its restated 2002 annual figures next week after it meets the Sept. 30 deadline of delivering its audited accounts to its syndicate of banks, Dow Jones reports.

AMSTERDAM - Scandinavian food retailer ICA AB, which is 50 percent owned by Royal Ahold NV, on Friday said it will drop Ahold from its brand name, but dismissed suggestions the change was connected with bad publicity around Ahold.

AMSTERDAM -- Dutch group Ahold's nonexecutive chairman will quit and its chief executive take a cut in guaranteed pay as the world's third-largest food retailer responds to investor outrage over an accounting scandal and excessive salaries.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Tops Markets has eliminated about 119 sales and marketing jobs, the Buffalo News reports. The reductions were announced early this year, but the bulk of the cuts are being completed this week, the company said Thursday.

PONTE VEDRA, Fla. -- Global Axcess Corp., a fully integrated, one-stop source for ATM solutions, announced Wednesday that the company's wholly owned subsidiary, Nationwide Money Services, has won a four and one-half year extension on its exclusive contract with Food Lion.

ZAANDAM, Netherlands - Dutch retailer Ahold is "very close" to picking a new CEO for its scandal-ridden U.S. Foodservice unit, Ahold's new CEO told Reuters today.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Delhaize Group, the Belgian international food retailer, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 43 Harveys supermarkets located in central and south Georgia and the Tallahassee, Fla. area.