Nonfoods

QUINCY, Mass. -- Ahold's Stop & Shop and Giant-Landover banners have chosen VeriFone Holding, Inc.'s MX870 multimedia customer-facing payment system with signature capture for use in their stores.

MINNEAPOLIS -- General Mills will officially launch during the first quarter of 2007 a Worldwide Innovation Network (WIN), which it said is "designed to expand and accelerate the innovation advances already underway inside the company."

MINNEAPOLIS -- General Mills will officially launch during the first quarter of 2007 a Worldwide Innovation Network (WIN), which it said is "designed to expand and accelerate the innovation advances already underway inside the company."

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- Mike Beaudry, manager of Big Y's Fresh Acres Market concept store here, has finally tracked down some local honey, from the Hampden County Beekeepers Association, to sell along with the other locally sourced offerings emphasized by the Fresh Acres Market format. Beaudry had been looking for locally produced honey since the store opened last October.

NEW YORK -- As they finally shake off old associations with substandard "brand x" items, private label or store brand food and beverage sales are climbing steadily, according to "Private Label Food and Beverages in the U.S.," a report from market research firm Packaged Facts here. The report puts 2006 sales at over $48 billion, and forecasts that sales will pass $56 billion by 2011.

ATLANTA -- The Coca-Cola Co. here said yesterday that it has signed an agreement to buy fast-growing Fuze Beverage, LLC, manufacturer of Fuze enhanced juices and teas. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

NEW YORK -- As they finally shake off old associations with substandard "brand x" items, private label or store brand food and beverage sales are climbing steadily, according to "Private Label Food and Beverages in the U.S.," a report from market research firm Packaged Facts here. The report puts 2006 sales at over $48 billion, and forecasts that sales will pass $56 billion by 2011.

ATLANTA -- The Coca-Cola Co. here said yesterday that it has signed an agreement to buy fast-growing Fuze Beverage, LLC, manufacturer of Fuze enhanced juices and teas. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.