CVS/pharmacy has announced the launch of Gold Emblem Select, an assortment of items that celebrate the exceptional in every day food, beverage and snack products.

Topco Associates LLC has announced its annual Corporate Brand Marketing Award winners. Members received their awards at Topco’s Center Store Sales & Merchandising Conference, which was held May 20 to 22 at the Renaissance Convention Center in Schaumburg, Ill.

Whole Foods Market opened an urban store in Detroit today, the first to open in city limits. Heavily centered around the community, the store features local design elements and a mix of local products and private labels.

When you think of frozen private label food, images of a rushed dinner for a busy family or a single woman working late nights on a pinched budget might spring to mind. But this perception no longer holds true, as today’s private label frozen foods offer not just inspired culinary convenience, but upscale ingredients and packaging.

Breakfast foods are a $3.7 billion category with a 10.1 percent private label revenue share in 2011, up 0.1 percent from a year earlier, according to Nielsen records compiled for the 2012 PLMA Private Label Yearbook.

In April, a new bill, known as the Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act, was introduced by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.). If the new federal bill is signed into law, suppliers and retailers would need to label when genetically modified ingredients are included in food products sold in America.

Target will introduce its Beauty Concierge program in Minneapolis area stores on July 19.

The winners of The Grocer Own Label Food & Drink Awards 2013 were announced on Tuesday at the London Hilton, Park Lane, England.

Delhaize Group said Tuesday it would sell its Sweetbay (72 stores), Harveys (72 stores), and Reid's (11 stores) chain of stores to Bi-Lo Holdings LLC for $265 million in cash.

The world’s biggest private label trade show opened in Amsterdam today at the RAI Exhibition Centre.