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The Publix family has much to celebrate on the 100th anniversary of the birth of founder George Jenkins.

A tour of a half-dozen great stores hosted by the Chicago-based Food Export Association Midwest-USA brought home the need to get the fundamentals right, but also change when you need to.

Compelling merchandising and aggressive promotion at retail are helping put meat, produce, deli, and bakery in a great field position for Super Bowl food feasts.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Price Chopper here is today rolling out its 'Fuel AdvantEdge' program in the Worcester, Mass. and Putnam, Conn. marketplaces, in partnership with 12 local Sunoco stations.

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Price Chopper here is today rolling out its 'Fuel AdvantEdge' program in the Worcester, Mass. and Putnam, Conn. marketplaces, in partnership with 12 local Sunoco stations.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Grocery Manufacturers/Food Products Association (GMA/FPA) here will gather senior-level sales and marketing executives from CPG manufacturers and sales agencies with retail merchandising executives, to foster collaborative strategies for better understanding and reaching consumers at the trade group's annual Merchandising, Sales and Marketing Conference (MSM), to be held Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2007, at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO.

CHICAGO -- Lower-income households actually outpace their higher-income counterparts in consumer packaged goods (CPG) spending, and will spend $85.3 billion on CPG in 2007 while generating an additional $84 billion in incremental CPG growth during the next decade, according to a new study by market research firm Information Resources, Inc.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Good things may come to some who wait, but not for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) manufacturers and retailers introducing new products, according to a recent study conducted by Edgewood Consulting Group and the Voluntary Inter-Industry Commerce Solutions Association (VICS), and sponsored by Cadbury Adams USA LLC here..