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SkylarHaley, Pleasanton, CA, rolled out a unique corrugated barrel display to feature its Stoneridge Orchards natural fruit snacks.

Products offering the promise of slimmer waistlines, smoother skin and cleaner homes with minimal hassles cluster near the top of Information Resources Inc.'s 2006 New Product Pacesetters study of top-selling launches.

There's a "new Wal-Mart" out there making headlines on everything from banking ventures and minority business set-asides to global warming and port security. They're even inviting reporters in for conference calls.

Silk Milk wanted to generate awareness and encourage trial for the new product launch of Silk Live! among the primary target audience of women ages 25 to 44, while strengthening channel relations with organic supermarkets nationwide, Frumin explains.

Silk Milk wanted to generate awareness and encourage trial for the new product launch of Silk Live! among the primary target audience of women ages 25 to 44, while strengthening channel relations with organic supermarkets nationwide, Frumin explains.

Have you seen the new TV spot from The Home Depot, the one in which the young husband can't decide which tractor brand to buy? The voiceover in the spot proclaims, "Only The Home Depot has John Deere ... (slight pause) and the new tractors from Cub Cadet and Toro, all under one roof."

Natural, organic and healthy foods have exploded, but how do you merchandise the category?

Retailers, product companies starting to pay attention to the environmental bottom line

Launched in Whole Foods stores, this shipper from Back to Nature, Madison, WI, promoted its crackers. Great Northern Corp., Racine, WI, produced the corrugated unit.

A roundtable discussion of how brand "design language" connects with consumers at retail.

Private label brands -- and packaging strategies that drive them -- are becoming bigger weapons as retailers fight for market share. One of the latest private label revamps is coming from Meijer, the Grand Rapids, MI-based superstore.