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June 7, 2011
Dr. Sears Family Essentials launches baby care line

Dr. Sears Family Essentials, whose products are sold at such retailers as The Vitamin Shoppe, Whole Foods, H-E-B, Meijer and Fred Meyer, has announced the launch of its all-natural baby care line.

June 6, 2011
CVS/pharmacy kicks off annual ALS fundraising campaign

CVS/pharmacy kicked off on June 5 its 10th annual in-store "Researching a Cure" fundraising campaign to support the fight against amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

June 6, 2011
Walmart Express makes debut

As promised, Walmart unveiled its smaller-format store concept, dubbed Walmart Express, this past week.

June 3, 2011
Calendar day shifts aid May sales for Walgreens

May proved to be a good month for Walgreens, as the drug store chain posted a total sales jump of 7% to nearly $6.1 billion.

June 3, 2011
Consumer-directed healthcare model struts its stuff

Anyone wondering what the future of health care under a more consumer-directed model will look like got a glimpse of it from two pieces of news this week.

June 3, 2011
CVS Caremark donates funds, in-kind donations to Joplin, Mo., residents

CVS Caremark has donated approximately $40,000 in monetary and in-kind donations to support residents of Joplin, Mo., including some of the company's pharmacy benefit manager clients and their members who were impacted by the recent tornado, the company announced on Friday.

June 3, 2011
CVS enhances Hep C CareTeam

CVS Caremark is enhancing its hepatitis C patient support program following the recent Food and Drug Administration approval of two new add-on therapies for hepatitis C, the company announced on Friday.

June 3, 2011
CVS won't be selling off PBM after scoring big win

Why is the news that CVS Caremark has secured the mail-order and specialty prescription drug benefit for Federal Employee Program so important? Well, some pundits might say there is no indication that the integrated retail-pharmacy benefit manager model had anything to do with why FEP chose Caremark over Medco. It doesn't matter. As any football coach would say, "A win's a win," and this is a big one.

June 3, 2011
Giant Food's private-label products get new design

Royal Ahold banner Giant Food Stores is giving its private-label products a new look.

June 3, 2011
Waldbaum's, Pathmark stores host Salute to Local Heroes events

A&P will kick off on June 4 the first in a summer-long series of "Salute to Local Heroes" events in all Waldbaum's and Pathmark stores.

June 3, 2011
Walmart focused on serving ‘next generation’ customers

After nearly four hours of music, cheering, celebrity appearances and brief presentations by senior executives, Walmart president and CEO Mike Duke wrapped up the company’s annual shareholders’ extravaganza Friday morning by sharing five priorities associated with serving what he called the next generation of customers.

June 2, 2011
Mylan gets go-ahead for generic Effexor XR

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a generic drug for depression and anxiety made by Mylan, the drug maker said Thursday.

June 1, 2011
CoverGirl, LeSportsac unveil cosmetic bag collection

Pat McGrath, makeup artist and global creative design director for Procter & Gamble's CoverGirl brand, has teamed up with LeSportsac for the second year in a row. This time, they've collaborated on an eight-piece pro-inspired cosmetic bag collection.

June 1, 2011
Dr. Sears Family Essentials introduces new Popumz flavors

A line of popped whole grain crisps has expanded to include three new varieties.

June 1, 2011
Earnings miss doesn’t derail Dollar General’s growth

Sales and profits continued to pile up at Dollar General during the first quarter as shoppers sought value at the retailer’s 9,500 stores.

June 1, 2011
Former Alberto Culver finance chief heads to Cigna

Global health services company Cigna has hired former Alberto Culver executive Ralph Nicoletti to serve as EVP and CFO, effective June 20.

May 31, 2011
CVS Caremark lands PBM contract with FEP

In a major win for its pharmacy benefit management business, CVS Caremark will handle the $3 billion mail-order and specialty prescription drug benefit for the Federal Employee Program starting January 2012, which, for the last three years, had been handled by rival Medco Health Solutions.

May 31, 2011
Kroger promotes fuel savings

Kroger said that its family of stores is offering new ways for its customers to save on gas.

May 31, 2011
P&G sues Vi-Jon over mouthwash bottle

Procter & Gamble announced that it has filed a lawsuit against a private-label manufacturer and distributor of mouthwash for allegedly violating the former's intellectual property.

May 26, 2011
Delhaize Group elects new members to board

The Belgium-based parent company of Delhaize America, which operates such banners as Food Lion and Harveys in the United States, has elected new members to its board of directors.

May 26, 2011
Walgreens continues to raise beauty bar

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then there are plenty of folks beholding Walgreens and its New York palette, Duane Reade. So it should come as no surprise that Walgreens is positioning its heavy hitters against the beauty category, given the number of recent changes Walgreens has made across its beauty facing.

May 26, 2011
Walgreens makes changes to beauty, personal care merchant teams

Walgreens on Wednesday promoted Mike Spear to divisional merchandise manager of the retailer’s personal care division and announced that Lauren Vondrasek is transitioning to the company’s beauty merchandising unit, which is headed by Barbara Larson.

May 25, 2011
Tide's Loads of Hope makes its way to Joplin, Mo.

Procter & Gamble's Tide brand is bringing its mobile laundry program to Missouri to provide free laundry services to victims of the recent tornadoes in the area.

May 24, 2011
CVS Caremark outlines results of personalized consumer communications program

CVS Caremark outlined on Tuesday at a consumer health engagement conference the results of a personalized consumer communications program designed to encourage patients to take their medications as doctors direct.

May 24, 2011
Kaplan Thaler Group named Supervalu's agency of record

Creative agency Kaplan Thaler Group has been tapped to run Supervalu’s latest ad campaign, according to a blog posted on the Kaplan Thaler Group site Monday.

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