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Natural and organic foods retailer Whole Foods Market will highlight the value and quality of Australian wine this spring with a two-month chainwide promotion.
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HEB’s Central Market will give its shoppers a taste of Argentina during a two-week celebration starting May 12 across its eight stores across Texas.
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The California Legislature moved one step closer last week to providing a short-term solution to the State’s Beverage Container Recycling Program, according to the California Grocers Association.
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Members of the Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association (PFMA) and the Pennsylvania Convenience Store Council (PCSC) are vigorously supporting legislation introduced by State Sen. John Rafferty (R-Montgomery) to dramatically overhaul the state’s beer laws.
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A&P’s The Food Emporium stores last week debuted “A Taste of France,” an event providing New York metro-area shoppers with over 30 new and exclusive items of French delicacies, from popular gourmet brands such as Emmanuelle Baillard, Des Lis Chocolat, Barral, Apidis and more.
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While there are recent signs that the U.S. economy has righted itself and is on a path to recovery, the road ahead faces significant headwinds that will make a true reversal protracted.
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The economic slump took its toll on U.S. food and drink manufacturers in 2009, according to a recent review of Mintel’s Global New Product Database (GNPD). Food and drink product launches showed a substantial decline of nearly 30 percent from 2008.
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Malibu, the Caribbean rum with natural liqueur flavor, is rolling out the “Malibu By U” consumer program as the latest component of its ongoing “Get Your Island On” campaign.
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The vast majority of U.S. households — 9 out of 10 — will root for their preferred Super Bowl team in their own homes or those of friends or relatives, rather than at a restaurant or bar, a survey by The Nielsen Company has found.
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Tropicana launched Juicy Rewards, a new program aimed at making it easy for consumers to get more from their juice by offering 20,000 ways to save money on healthy pursuits.
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With the clock ticking down to the Big Game on Feb. 7, retailers may well be wondering which beers will score touchdowns on Super Bowl Sunday?
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New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes, a coalition formed to oppose taxes on food and beverage products, has expressed its “disappointment” regarding New York Gov. David Paterson’s proposal to place a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages of 12 cents per 12-ounce can in the 2010-2011 Executive Budget.
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Supermarket retailers are looking to wine for sales growth in the midst of a challenging economy.
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Alimentaria 2010's expos and events will be combined in a single location to help retailer attendees stretch their travel dollars.
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When the Milk Processor Education Program (MilkPEP) kicks off its January 2010 “Building Strong Families” platform with the “Great Gallon Give” promotion offering moms the opportunity to win free milk for a year, the organization will be making that pitch in Spanish in well.
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Budweiser American Ale has enlisted Olympian and four-time world freestyle kayaking champion Eric Jackson as an ambassador for the brand. Beginning next year, Jackson will appear in Budweiser American Ale print and point-of-sale marketing, and the brand will have a presence at professional kayaking events throughout 2010. Budweiser American Ale will also host private training sessions with Jackson, offering both experienced and novice kayakers alike the chance to learn from the most successful competitive kayaker in history.
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Approximately 100 Pennsylvania grocery stores may soon be offering self-service wine-vending kiosks in a new program developed in partnership with the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board.
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A coalition of public interest groups last week pressed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to make the “meaningful change” to alcohol-labeling regulation that it originally petitioned the Treasury Department about six years ago.
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Stella Artois has entered into a two-year sponsorship deal with Cirque du Soleil granting the Belgian beer brand signage at performances and rights to use Cirque du Soleil logos and images in local advertising and point-of-sale marketing in cities before and during performance runs of the troupe’s touring shows “Kooza” and “Ovo.”
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In the winter, hot beverages remain a hot item for Americans, according to a recent SupermarketGuru.com quick poll, which found 65 percent wake up with a hot cup of coffee, and more than half (51 percent) visit a coffee house at least one time a week — with 30 percent visiting two to three times a week, according to the Web site, which is run by Progressive Grocer contributor and consumerologist Phil Lempert.
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Daddy Yankee is helping Coors Light connect with Hispanic consumers. The brand is promoting the reggaeton star’s new single and album at a series of sponsored meet-and-greet events across the country.
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Consumers will toast in holiday cheer with wine again this year, but many are making category trade-downs and trade-outs due to economic factors, according to a new survey from Mintel released last week.
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Consumers will toast in holiday cheer with wine again this year, but many are making category trade-downs and trade-outs due to economic factors, according to a new survey from Mintel released last week.
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The Coca-Cola Co.’s Coca-Cola Zero brand has teamed with Twentieth Century Fox on a major worldwide promotional campaign for “Titanic” director James Cameron’s upcoming epic, “Avatar.”
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 Hip to the Dip
French’s Mustard invites Americans of all ages to dip to their heart with the iconic brand’s new Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce.
 Brown Rice by the Pound
Lundberg Family Farms, the No. 1 producer of organic rice and rice products in the United States, has now brought out Eco-Farmed Short Grain Brown Rice and Eco-Farmed Long Grain Brown Rice in WIC-eligible 1-pound bags.
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 Progressive Grocer's 2009 Produce Operations Review
Against a trying backdrop of persistently weak economic conditions, fierce competition and financially wary shoppers, supermarket produce departments faced much harsher headwinds during the past 12- month period than they have in recent years, as evidenced by marginal comparable-sales gains and a tentative outlook for the balance of the year, according to results of Progressive Grocer's 2009 Annual Produce Operations Review.
 PG's CES: Inside the Market Basket: Economical Choices Bring Grocery Gains
Total supermarket sales were $430.3 billion, up $13.2 billion from the $417.2 billion recorded in 2007 -- continuing the trend of slightly higher percentage increases in each of the past five years, according to Progressive Grocer's 62nd Annual Consumer Expenditures Study (CES), now greatly expanded from the eight-page print edition to 35 pages of research.
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