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In a year when consumers were looking to cut back anywhere they could, private label made inroads in a lot of categories, but took the biggest slices from segments like baby food and frozen pizza.

A group of top executives from some of the world's leading companies — including PepsiCo Americas Foods, Wal-Mart, Nestlé, Kimberly-Clark and The Walt Disney Co. — gathered at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, earlier this month to help the College of Business Administration launch its inaugural Shopper Marketing Forum.

Women ages 20 to 30 represent a $54 billion marketing opportunity for packaged goods companies, but their needs and values are vastly different from the generation before them, a new report from Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) has found.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. yesterday posted diluted earnings per share from continuing operations for the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 of 84 cents, exceeding the Bentonville, Ark.-based mega-retailers’s guidance of 78 cents to 82 cents.

The Supermarket Guru peers deep into his crystal ball to see what trends this coming year will bring for the food industry.

Walmart has introduced significant price cuts on Thanksgiving meal staples, as well as on TVs and other popular electronics.

Walmart and the Walmart Foundation yesterday rolled out “Walmart Gives Back,” a holiday giving program that will contribute $32 million in monetary and in-kind donations to charities across the nation.

Autumn marks the arrival of flu season, and this year, in addition to the flu bugs that typically strike, Americans have the H1N1 virus to worry about.