• The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that Steve Smith, president/CEO of K-VA-T Food Stores, is denying rumors that the company is being sold to Publix – or anyone else, for that matter.
"There's absolutely no truth to it. Our company is not for sale and probably won't be, at least in my lifetime," Smith tells the paper.
• Spartan Stores announced last week a new campaign called “Michigan’s best,” aimed at highlighting more than 2,400 products grown or produced in the state. The program reportedly will run in all of Spartan’s banners - D&W Fresh Market, Family Fare, Felpausch, Glen's, Glen's Fresh Market and VG's.
• Pantry Inc. announced that it has acquired 38 c-stores from Herndon Oil Corp., most of them in Alabama but a few in Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
• The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that General Mills is rolling out a line of Betty Crocker gluten-free products – finding that it takes less promotion money to launch such products because they meet a specific, expanding and increasingly vocalized consumer need.
"There's absolutely no truth to it. Our company is not for sale and probably won't be, at least in my lifetime," Smith tells the paper.
• Spartan Stores announced last week a new campaign called “Michigan’s best,” aimed at highlighting more than 2,400 products grown or produced in the state. The program reportedly will run in all of Spartan’s banners - D&W Fresh Market, Family Fare, Felpausch, Glen's, Glen's Fresh Market and VG's.
• Pantry Inc. announced that it has acquired 38 c-stores from Herndon Oil Corp., most of them in Alabama but a few in Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
• The Wall Street Journal this morning reports that General Mills is rolling out a line of Betty Crocker gluten-free products – finding that it takes less promotion money to launch such products because they meet a specific, expanding and increasingly vocalized consumer need.
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