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• Winn-Dixie Quarterly Loss Widens; Shares Fall

  Reuters - 2009-10-26

  (Reuters) - Winn-Dixie Stores Inc WINN posted a wider quarterly loss and gave a weak 2010 outlook as recession-hit consumers shopped for lesser number of items on every visit to its stores, sending the supermarket chain's shares down 13 percent.Same store sales -- a key measure of retail health --...

  Tags: Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., Winn-Dixie Quarterly Loss, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, EBITDA, SUPERVALU Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

• Consumer Staple Co Supervalu Cuts Dividend

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-26

  David I. Templeton submits: Last week Dividend Aristocrat Supervalu SVU cut the company's dividend by 50%. SVU becomes the first consumer staples stock to reduce its dividend. The new quarterly dividend is reduced to 8.75% from 17.5%.The company's second quarter earnings came in at 35 cents per share versus...

  Tags: US Market, Retail, David I. Templeton, SUPERVALU Inc.

• Supervalu Right to Pump Up Save-A-Lot

  BNET - 2009-10-22

  Supervalu plans to double its number of discount Save-A-Lot stores to 2,400 units across the country, in a move that is likely to attract an increasingly thrifty consumer looking for good deals. The company is in a five-year plan to complete the rollout. My BNET Retail colleague...

  Tags: SUPERVALU Inc., Save-A-Lot, Shaw, Albertsons, Sales Strategy, Food & Beverage, Sales Force Management, Sales, Manufacturing, Ian Ritter

• SUPERVALU Inc. F2Q10 (Qtr End 09/12/09) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-20

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Deborah Weinswig – Citigroup. Deborah Weinswig - Citigroup You’ve laid your vision for Sav-A-Lot. Can you elaborate in terms of the unit potential in the U.S.? And is that geographically skewed at all or how should we think about...

  Tags: Basket, Call Transcript, Earnings, SUPERVALU Inc., Citigroup Inc., Pricing, Branding, Marketing Research, Marketing, Seeking Alpha

• Supervalue Q2: Earnings In-Line, Dividend Cut

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-20

  Zacks.com submits: Supervalu Inc. SVU reported results for the second quarter of fiscal 2010. Earnings of 35 cents per share were in line with the Zacks Consensus Estimate, but were down 41.7% year-over-year. Net sales for the quarter declined 6.9% year-over-year due to a 6.9% decline in retail...

  Tags: Retail, Zacks.com, SUPERVALU Inc.

• Celsius Announces Supervalu Distribution, Receives Buy Rating from Thalmann

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-14

  VFC submits: CSUH.OB: Shares of Celsius Holding returned to the fifty cent mark on Tuesday, trading on double the average volume after two significant items of news hit the wires during the pre-market hours of the morning. The first announcement informed investors - and consumers - that the Celsius...

  Tags: Retail, VFC's Stock House, SUPERVALU Inc.

• Supervalu's SHOP 'n SAVE Ignites Gift Card Sales with Fuel Incentives

  BNET - 2009-10-08

  Supermarkets want a bigger piece of the Christmas sales pie and the Supervalu-affiliated SHOP ‘n SAVE chain is among those going after their holiday hunk through gift cards. Of course, supermarkets have been carrying the gift cards issued by other retailers for some time now. In fact,...

  Tags: Incentive, Gift Card, Retail Company, SUPERVALU Inc., SHOP, Sales Strategy, Retail, Sales, Mike Duff

• Supervalu: What Is Wall Street Afraid Of?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-10-05

  Mark Krieger submits: The way Wall Street has turned on SVU, you’d think the company had one foot on a banana peel and the other on a “slip and slide”. The Street has literally written it off as damaged goods because of its heavy debt load....

  Tags: Retail, Mark Krieger, SUPERVALU Inc.

• Supervalu Recalls Store Brand Macaroni and Cheese

  BNET - 2009-08-19

  MINNEAPOLIS ? Supervalu here is voluntarily recalling its frozen Culinary Circle Gourmet Macaroni and Cheese products because they may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes. The possibility for contamination was identified through routine sampling of the product at the manufacturing facility, according to the retailer. There have been no reported illnesses...

  Tags: product, SUPERVALU Inc.

• Supervalu: Dividend Stock Analysis

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-08-05

  Dobromir Stoyanov submits: SUPERVALU INC. SVU operates as a grocery retailer in the United States. The company is member of the S&P 500 and the S&P Dividend Aristocrats indexes. SUPERVALU INC. has paid dividends for more than 70 years and consistently increased payments to common shareholders every year for 35...

  Tags: Retail, Dividend Growth Investor, SUPERVALU Inc.