General Merchandise

OAKLAND, Calif. — Icahn Enterprises is continuing its pursuit of Clorox, despite the company's rejection of last month's takeover bid.

Icahn Enterprises' affiliate High River Limited Partnership said Friday that Icahn Enterprises is looking to replace Clorox's entire board of directors with 11 nominees, who will stand for election at Clorox's yet-to-be-announced annual stockholders meeting.

SUNBURY, Pa. — After a popular Facebook contest made Brandi, a 7-year-old German shepherd mix, Weis Markets’ Pet of the Game at a Penn State football game in 2010, the company’s second annual Pet of the Game Facebook Contest returns to Weis Markets’ official Facebook fan page, the grocer announced Thursday.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Reckitt Benckiser on Thursday unveiled Turbo RACER, a new free online game and a free mobile racing-game app available on iTunes, as part of the company's corporate awareness program. The game is designed to metaphorically underscore the essence of working at RB.

MINNEAPOLIS — Customers can save on back-to-school shopping by trading in used electronics and video games for store credit, Target said.

The mass merchandiser said it expanded its Electronics Trade-In service to 1,490 stores with Target Mobile centers, and also added new product categories. The chain offers the program under a partnership with consumer electronics upgrade and trade-in company NextWorth, giving customers credit in return. The service is accepting calculators, DVDs, video games, Nintendo DS units, cell phones, iPods and iPads.

DALLAS — Texas Instruments is looking to prepare students for back to school with a new line of calculators and handhelds.

In an effort to simplify mathematics and science with its easy-to-use learning tools, TI has introduced the color-display TI-Nspire CX and TI-Nspire CX CAS handhelds, the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculator and the TI-36X Pro Scientific calculator. With these new items, students now can more clearly interpret data, charts and graphs, TI said.

CLEVELAND — ECRM posted a memorial to founder Charlie Bowlus on its website over the weekend and provided details regarding a celebratory gathering here a week from Monday.

SUNBURY, Pa. — The Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania recently recognized Weis Markets for its commitment to recycling and its innovative program to recycle waxed cardboard used to ship and store fresh vegetables and meats, the grocer announced Monday.

In 2010, Weis Markets teamed up with Envirolog to recycle its waxed cardboard and produce Envirolog fireplace logs, which are sold in Weis Markets stores.  Typically, supermarkets send most of their waxed cardboard to landfills since it is difficult to recycle.

SUNBURY, Pa. — Weis Markets earlier this week named Mike Mignola VP store operations and Bruno Garisto VP center store sales and merchandising.