Nonfoods

CINNCINNATTI -- Kroger Manufacturing, a division of The Kroger Co. based here, named Crown Holdings, Inc.'s food packaging U.S. subsidiary with its "Distinguished Supplier Award" and was also named the chain's overall "Corporate Supplier of the Year."

AVENEL, N.J. -- In an unusual move for a regional grocery cooperative, Foodtown here is in the process of renovating two Winn-Dixie stores in south Florida that it purchased earlier this year, and is expected to reopen the stores under the Foodtown banner in the next several months.