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MODESTO, Calif. -- Save Mart Supermarkets here has expanded its relationship with Chicago-based Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) that will broaden the chain's reportable store census to all 248 of its owned units, including Save Mart's Lucky and Food Maxx banners, from the previous coverage of 80 stores.

ROMEOVILLE, Ill. -- Kehe Food Distributors has selected iWay Software's integration solutions to automate internal business processes and facilitate efficient business-to-business transactions with the wholesaler's external vendors and customers, via a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach, which eliminates the need to write or maintain custom integration code.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) said yesterday that Stephen L. Johnson, administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will keynote the trade association's first-ever Environmental Sustainability Summit for the Food, Beverage and Consumer Products Industry in Washington, D.C., January 17-18, 2008.

SPRINGDALE, Ark. -- After six weeks of consumer research and discussion, Tyson Foods, Inc. here and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have agreed to use more informative labeling for the company's Raised Without Antibiotics chicken program. Tyson will be phasing in the new labeling language on its packages over the next several months, which will read: "Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics that impact antibiotic resistance in humans."

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- Stater Bros. Holdings Inc. posted sales of $3.7 billion, a rise of 4.7 percent, for the 53-three week fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2007.

WASHINGTON -- The Joint Industry Coupon Committee (JICC) of the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute yesterday released specifications for a new coupon system in "North American Coupon Application Guidelines Using GS1 DataBar (RSS) Expanded Symbols." The result of a five-year coupon-re-engineering project by the JICC and e-commerce standards group GS1 US, The revised guidelines offer solutions to problems encountered by manufacturers and retailers with the current system, which was developed in 1985.

WASHINGTON -- The Joint Industry Coupon Committee (JICC) of the Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute yesterday released specifications for a new coupon system in "North American Coupon Application Guidelines Using GS1 DataBar (RSS) Expanded Symbols." The result of a five-year coupon-re-engineering project by the JICC and e-commerce standards group GS1 US, The revised guidelines offer solutions to problems encountered by manufacturers and retailers with the current system, which was developed in 1985.

CARLISLE, Pa. -- Giant Food Stores, LLC here has launched a first-of-its-kind rack program in support of the PA Preferred program, a state effort to promote items produced in Pennsylvania.