General Merchandise

NEW YORK — Part of the next step in the collaboration between Perfect Corp. and L’Oreal is to bring iconic beauty brand Lancôme Paris, to AR-powered YouCam Makeup.

HANOVER, PA. — Utz Quality Foods announced Friday that it would be acquiring Inventure Foods in a deal valued at $165 million.

With manufacturing facilities in Arizona, Inventure’s portfolio includes such brands as Boulder Canyon Foods, TGI Fridays and Nathan's Famous.

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Unilever’s Pure Leaf tea brand has announced the release of the company’s first home-brewed Matcha tea. Sourced from the Rainforest Alliance Certified tea states in Kagoshimama, Japan, the brand will offer the tea sachets in two flavors — Pure Matcha and Matcha with Ginger

OAKLAND, Calif. — Surfaces can now be kept cleaner and laundry much whiter than before with the new and improved Clorox Regular Bleach, with Cloromax Technology. This new formula not only repels stains quicker than before, but also works to keep surfaces looking better reducing soil adhesion, the company said. 

NEW YORK — The Emerson Group last month hosted its 10th Annual Retail Industry Day in a packed room, with hundreds of merchants eager to discover how to better position their products for tomorrow’s ever-evolving consumer.

They weren’t disappointed.

PLANO, Texas — As Walmart looks to centralize its merchandising activity planning process and establish standard operating procedures for in-store service providers, it has named sales and marketing company Crossmark as one of its preferred service providers. With the selection, Crossmark is one of five companies that can execute merchandising activity on behalf of suppliers in nearly 5,000 U.S. Walmart locations.

CAMP HILL, Pa. — Rite Aid announced Thursday that it is now accepting Apple Pay for purchases made on the company's e-commerce site, making Rite Aid the first pharmacy retailer to accept Apple Pay as a form of payment online.

Seeking to offer adult consumers more options in the tobacco category, Smokey Mountain Chew is introducing Airio, a pressurized filter that company officials say removes about 66% of the tar and other chemicals from a cigarette.