Deli / Prepared Foods

STELLARTON, N.S. -- In what the retailer is touting as a first for Canadian private label brands on a national level, Sobeys, Inc. here yesterday said it had expanded its private label portfolio, Compliments, to include a line of good-for-you products, known as Compliments balance-équilibre. All Compliments balance-équilibre items sport the Health Check symbol under the aegis of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Healthy snack manufacturers and retailers have started wooing the back-to-school market with new products, packaging, promotions, and displays.

Can the produce department draw kids like the cereal and cookie aisles do?

Cramming higher quality, fresher foods, and better shopping into efficient footprints -- today's best c-stores are proof that good things come in small packages.

CHICAGO -- A panel of culinary chefs from the Illinois Institute of Art here selected the winning recipes from among eight finalists vying for top honors in IGA's Hometown Holidays Recipe Contest.

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- H.E. Butt Grocery Co. and ConAgra Foods, Inc. are teaming up to help celebrate Mother's Day this weekend with free cooking camps.

SCHENECTADY, NY -- Price Chopper here yesterday opened Ben & Bill's Deli -- billed by the Northeast regional retailer as "the Best N.Y.C.-style deli between Manhattan and Montreal" -- inside the Price Chopper in Slingerlands, N.Y. The new feature is part of a 10,000-square-foot addition to the now 83,000-square-foot store.

NAPLES, N.Y. -- Energy drinks have become a global craze, according to Datamonitor's Productscan Online database of new products. Datamonitor here reported yesterday that 623 new energy drinks hit worldwide markets in 2005, a 46 percent increase from 2004's count and a near tripling of new launches since 2000.