Corporate Governance

Survey: Households on hard times buy more store brands
Brick Meets Click, Mercatus Grocery survey demonstrates an uptick in private brand buying across ages, income levels during the pandemic, but those facing income loss stand out the most
Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium reports record export levels
Facing imposed tariffs late 2019 and then a global pandemic, the 100-year-old consortium protecting the cheese reported high levels of export and production

ProPublica investigates Amazon's private brand site placement

Article in ProPublica looks at the e-commerce retailer’s positioning of private label brands over others on its site
Columbia Basin Hemp rolls out line of CBD isolate

The vertically integrated company processes and extracts the isolate near its farms in the Columbia Valley near the Cascade Mountains
Great Value canned tuna sets the sustainability standard

Walmart’s store brand tuna that’s been certified by sustainable seafood organizations will debut in July, setting the standard for other canned tunas to follow by 2025
Kroger, Ocado expansion grows again

Partnership between Kroger and e-commerce provider Ocado adds three more customer fulfillment centers
JC Penney starts closing stores as part of 'optimization strategy'

As the retailer looks to emerge from Chapter 11 and the pandemic, JC Penney unveiled a plan for closings and smaller footprints
Costco sales sees a positive May, after flat April

Net sales and same-store sales are up for the month, and e-commerce continues to rise, up more than 106% for the month
Updated: What some retailers had to say post-protests, George Floyd death

Chains such as Target, Walmart and Walgreens voiced statements in the wake of protests and the death of George Floyd, H-E-B begins a $1 million fund
Dumas acquisition primes it for expansion to U.S.

An investment firm has acquired the Canadian private brand pastry maker, setting it up to grow product development and expand across Canada and into the U.S.

Survey: Households on hard times buy more store brands

Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium reports record export levels

ProPublica investigates Amazon's private brand site placement

Columbia Basin Hemp rolls out line of CBD isolate

Great Value canned tuna sets the sustainability standard

Kroger, Ocado expansion grows again

JC Penney starts closing stores as part of 'optimization strategy'

Costco sales sees a positive May, after flat April

Updated: What some retailers had to say post-protests, George Floyd death

Dumas acquisition primes it for expansion to U.S.