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While customers often make a shopping trip to pick up their traditional standby items, today’s consumer also loves an unexpected product that is on-trend. Seasonal items can be both traditional and trendy, and they can round out a retailer’s private-brand offerings to reap rewards.

Josephine Skriver’s first Maybelline New York campaign will be for the Super Cushion 2-in-1, which will launch May 2018.

The sports nutrition segment represents a significant opportunity for retailers, with SPINS reporting that protein supplements alone accounted for almost $4 billion in mass retail and specialty outlet sales last year — but is it worth the potential headache?

The company appointed William S. Marth to the role of president and chief executive officer of North America and Europe, and John W. Denman was named president.

Taste of Inspirations will feature pastas, sauces, frozen appetizers, pizzas, desserts, marinades, dressings and more, the company said.

Non-GMO Project Verified Whole Fruit Fruit Bars will include strawberry, mango and black cherry flavors, and the Organic Juice Tubes will feature apple grape, apple blueberry, apple cherry and apple strawberry varieties.

According to Hallmark, those who shop for groceries online also are more likely to purchase cards, which has prompted the company to create an e-commerce team focused on expanding the greeting card aisles in the digital space.

Even as intimacy health’s reach expands, companies continue to innovate on the perennially trafficked condom category, which is seeing thin options constitute a large and growing segment.