When Post Holdings conducted a call Monday to announce its quarterly earnings, it also was the company’s first public comment since announcing a deal to buy private label and branded businesses from Hearthside Food Solutions for $158 billion in cash.
Post Holdings announced Thursday that it would buy the private label and branded cereal, granola, and snacks businesses of Hearthside Food Solutions.
Swiss co-operative grocer Migros’ Marketing Director Oscar Sager expects a nominal sales increase for its supermarket and superstore division of about 1 percent compared with a sales drop of 0.6 percent a year ago, Planetretail.net reports.
After debuting in test runs this fall, Aldi has brought back is organic and all-natural private label line, SimplyNature, to stores this week.
With sales up again in the fiscal fourth quarter of 2012, Costco Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti told analysts that the company’s private label penetration in fresh foods was on the rise.
The following stories were the top 10 most-read items posted to the PLBuyer website during the month of April—and we’ve collected them here for quick and easy review. Click through to read the full stories.
Coming with a clear, comprehensive plan was the key to success for Longo Brothers Fruit Markets when the grocer decided to roll out a two-tier private label strategy, Jenny Longo and Robert Koss tell PLBuyer editor Chris Freeman in this podcast.
The May 2013 Issue of Private Label Buyer includes a cover story on deli choices, as well as Category Insights on milk and juice and cheese products. Check it out today!
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