Supermarket/Grocery

Private label products are make up 37 percent of products on the shelves, and the number is expected to reach 41 percent in 2008. As a result, CG companies need a new strategy to compete.

American Italian Pasta Company (AIPC), the largest dry pasta producer in North America, has been honored as the Pasta "Category Colonel" for the seventh straight year by PL Buyer magazine in recognition of the company's outstanding private label pasta sales efforts.

RedPrairie recently expanded its Latin American presence to include Argentina, Colombia and Brazil.

Since 1992 we have developed Shiloh Software to provide our customer with a powerful set of tools for working with retail and related data.

Smart Balance, manufacturer of Smart Balance buttery spreads, popcorn, oils, cooking sprays, peanut butter, mayonnaise and cheese products, and Earth Balance butter spreads and shortening, appoints Acosta as its sales and marketing agency in the United States.

Pinnacle Foods Group Inc. will leverage DSC Logistics transportation management services for product shipping. In April 2007, Pinnacle Foods awarded DSC warehousing and distribution management services.

Consumer goods companies can expect to gain valuable shopper insights from a new generation of consumer panel services created by Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Information Resources Inc. (IRI) based on Wal-Mart's unique customer segments.

Through a licensing agreement. Procter & Gamble (P&G) will provide Dunkin' Donuts coffee to grocery stores, mass merchandisers, club stores, and drug stores throughout the Unites States.