Deli / Prepared Foods

Vita-Mix Corp. is offering an incentive to retailers that ties into its line of blenders. If a retailer purchases four TurboBlend 4500 professional-grade blenders, Cleveland, Ohio-based Vita-Mix will send a free display unit featuring images of beverages, soups, desserts and salad dressings, with a cutout space for the 4500.

The various representatives encountered at the National Peanut Board's chef demonstration and tasting event feel that such gatherings go a long way toward restoring consumer confidence in the wake of the Peanut Corp. of America product (PCA) recall.

We live in interesting times. On the one hand, value retailing is driving price compression, benefitting consumers.

Dannon is now introducing a drink and a fiber supplement that contain the same health benefits as its groundbreaking yogurt.

New and improved products are due in March, with further innovations to come throughout 2009.

Traditional chefs will prepare food and offer samples, spotlighting an extensive array of foods from the Land of the Rising Sun.

The promotion aims to educate consumers, build traffic and moves product.

Apples experienced the steepest decrease, falling 29 cents to $1.51 per pound.