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  • Salvatori-Scott celebrates 30 years

    NEW ORLEANS — Salvatori-Scott last week celebrated the company's founding 30 years ago with the man who started it all, Steve Salvatori (second from the right in the picture above), during McKesson ideaShare 2017, here.

    Pictured from left to right are SSI partners Charlie Gurney, Mike McNeil, Marianne Nihan (president), Steve Salvatori (chairman) and Dan Briggs.

    The SSI team replicated the celebration of its 10-year anniversary, which also happened to be held during a McKesson event that was hosted in New Orleans (see picture below).

  • CRN explores addition of medical food to its lobbying repertoire

    WASHINGTON — The Council for Responsible Nutrition on Tuesday announced it is exploring adding representation for companies in the medical food industry to its mission, following a unanimous vote by the CRN board of directors at its June board meeting to launch an examination of this burgeoning sector of the nutrition category.

  • Retailer Brandless makes a brand play for no-frills value online

  • Budweiser rolls out packaging celebrating 11 states

    NEW YORK — Budweiser drinkers in 11 states will get to see their home state’s name, motto and nicknames on their beer cans and bottles through the end of September. Budweiser has begun its rollout of packaging celebrating the states its breweries are housed in.

    "Our new state bottles and cans celebrate the homes of our breweries and the communities that support them," Budweiser VP Ricardo Marques said. “Since 1876, Budweiser has been proudly brewed across America, and this summer, we're inviting local consumers to raise a cold one with us."

  • London Drugs unveils LDExpress, a new smaller format store

    CALGARY, Alberta — London Drugs on Monday opened a the first LDEXPRESS here, a "grab-and-go" retail store with 4,000 square feet of selling space that includes a full-service pharmacy, two customer service specialist desks and full-service ship-to-store pick up for everything available through the company's ecommerce site.

  • Latest Catalina solution engages shoppers through digital channels

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Catalina on Wednesday introduced an all new purchase-based digital coupon solution called Segment Targeted Load to Card.  Catalina leverages scaled shopper insights to deliver targeted offers to shoppers based on their past purchases. 

  • Hostess rolls out chocolate peanut butter Twinkies
    KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hostess is putting a new twist on an iconic snack. The company on Tuesday announced the introduction of chocolate peanut butter Twinkies — a chocolate cake Twinkie with peanut butter crème filling.
     

  • What does the center store of the future look like?

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Global Marketing Development Center’s latest report on next practices is urging retailers to rething their in-store and online strategies to adapt to how consumers are shopping in order to stay competitive.

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