Deli / Prepared Foods

Ocean Mist Farms is going green by making its new soup and salad recipe cookbooks available digitally online.

As shoppers increasingly demand better-for-you products from consumer packaged goods companies, major manufacturers, among them General Mills, Sara Lee and Campbell, have been stepping up to the plate by reformulating familiar foods to offer enhanced health benefits.

A new year offers a fresh start. This idea holds as true for the center store as any other part of the supermarket. To begin with, grocers can expect forward-looking CPG manufacturers to really step up to the plate in terms of making their businesses more effective, streamlining their supply chain practices and bringing their marketing strategies more decisively into the digital age.

Super 1 Foods stores have started a new savings program to help shoppers stretch their dollars, while the chain’s parent company, Brookshire Grocery Co. (BGC), has introduced the “Food Club Frenzy” program this month, which offers participating customers the opportunity to win up to $3,000.

Regional independent HEB said this week it’s strengthening its support of the Texas communities it serves by building new stores and creating new job opportunities, lowering prices on a wide range of items, and continuing its community involvement.

According to the “7th annual FSI Distribution Trends Report,” last year free-standing insert (FSI) coupons saw their greatest activity in 10 years, with more than 272 billion coupons dropped — an 8 percent increase over last year.

Brookshire Grocery Co.’s (BGC) recent Spirit of Christmas Food Drive brought in enough food to assist about 16,000 families in the Southern regional grocer’s four-state market area.

In a presentation last week before a Federal Trade Commission forum, Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) SVP and chief government affairs officer Mary Sophos revealed new data indicating that children today are seeing fewer food, beverage and restaurant advertisements on television, with the mix having shifted to more ads promoting nutritious items.