Kroger on Wednesday announced two senior vice presidents in appointments that it said supported the company’s long-term growth plans announced last week.

Private label promotions showed another downturn from a year earlier, according to research done exclusively for PLBuyer’s eReport by Chicago-based market research firm Market Track.

Safeway’s Vons division has joined with Chevron to launch a loyalty rewards program in southern and central California.

New Supervalu CEO Wayne Sales talked with analysts on a conference call last week after announcing second quarter earnings results and said that the company needed to return its focus to platforms that encouraged competitive pricing and taking costs out of the business – namely, its private label program.

The largest packaging and processing innovation event in North America kicks off Sunday in Chicago, when Pack Expo International 2012 opens its doors.

A study this month from Nielsen Co. says that convenience stores have the smallest share of sales in retail channels tracked by the company, providing opportunities for suppliers and retailers for growth in the space.

New research presented this week by the Food Marketing Institute concludes that private label products have become an integral part of the American market basket, and that in many categories, they have become the first choice in pantries and medicine and beauty cabinets.

Sam's Club private label wellness brand, Simply Right, has made a $500,000 donation to Vitamin Angels, a nonprofit organization dedicating to increasing availability, access, and use of micronutrients to at-risk population, the retailer said Monday in a news release.

The second year of PLBuyer’s Design Excellence Awards brought in more than 100 submissions over 16 categories, giving our quartet of judges plenty to think about over the course of a September day.

A year after projecting global private label share of 50 percent in 2025 – with U.S. private label share approaching 25 percent, a new report from Rabobank International says that U.S. private label share will reach at least 25 percent to 30 percent by 2025, and could be as high as 33 percent.