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July 2008, TORONTO

Major North American supermarket chain begins a store pilot evaluation of SwedaMart™ 2.1, Sweda’s premier, high-performance, Linux-based, supermarket point-of-sale system.

June 2008, TORONTO

Congratulations on the release of SwedaMart™ 2.1, incorporating significant new features such as advanced promotions, and lane-based-pricing.

Sweda upgrades infrastructure, expanding SwedaMedia™ pilot/hosting capacity at the Dallas facility.

March 2008, MONTREAL

Congratulations to Mr. Mario Emard, named Vice President of North American Sales for Sweda Corporation.

February 2008, HONG KONG

SwedaMart North American solutions team members from both Dallas and Toronto offices meet with Asia-Pacific group in Hong Kong to advance global efforts In the region.

Congratulations to the solutions team as the SwedaMart™ point-of-sale successfully renews IBM Store Integration Framework (SIF) certification.

SwedaMart™ point-of-sale solution undergoes evaluation for renewal of IBM Store Integration Framework (SIF) certification with most recent IBM WRS 6.1 middle-ware components.

Sweda presents SwedaMart™, our next generation supermarket point of sale solution, here at the Food market Institute (FMI) industry event. Team members spotlight innovations in the customer shopping experience.

Congratulations to the solutions team as the SwedaMart™ point-of-sale successfully completes IBM Store Integration Framework (SIF) certification.

 

INDUSTRY

 

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Membership in ARTS enables companies to express concerns, ideas and point-of-view in the creation of standards that benefit the worldwide retailing community.

- nrf-arts.org

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The National Grocers Association (N.G.A.) is the national trade association representing the retail and wholesale grocers that comprise the independent sector of the food distribution industry.

nationalgrocers.org

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The National Retail Federation is the world's largest retail trade association, with membership that comprises all retail formats and channels of distribution including department, specialty, discount, catalog, Internet, independent stores, chain restaurants, drug stores and grocery stores as well as the industry's key trading partners of retail goods and services. NRF represents an industry with more than 1.6 million U.S. retail companies, more than 25 million employees - about one in five American workers - and 2007 sales of $4.5 trillion. As the industry umbrella group, NRF also represents over 100 state, national and international retail associations.

- nrf.com

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SN (Supermarket News), the only nationally circulated weekly trade magazine for the food distribution industry. This website keeps readers up to date between weekly issues by posting daily news briefs and offering a free daily email-alert service. Executives use SN's coverage as their primary information source for industry news, trends, and product features. The publication's readership includes retailers, manufacturers, brokers, analysts, association executives and others connected to the industry. The publication is recognized as the authoritative voice in its field because it operates with the largest and most experienced staff of news gatherers and editors in the industry. Its weekly print magazine circulation insures its news timeliness, and its daily online reporting has become a very popular feature.

- supermarketnews.com

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Progressive Grocer has been the voice of the food retail industry for over 84 years. Serving the largest audience in the market, Progressive Grocer's readers are top management at headquarters and top decision-makers at store level. From chain supermarkets to independent supermarkets, super centers, wholesalers and food brokers, readers rely on Progressive Grocer for its authoritative, comprehensive, relevant and research-based editorial and news. By anticipating, reporting and interpreting important data and trends, Progressive Grocer fulfills its mission: accelerating insight and opportunity for leading grocery retailers, and accelerating brand and sales success for leading manufacturers.

- progressivegrocer.com

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Grocery Headquarters is a monthly business magazine dedicated to reporting on issues, trends and strategies involved in the operation of food retailers, including developments throughout the distribution chain. Grocery Headquarters is written and edited for key decision makers at headquarters, where buying authority is concentrated. Our target audience includes senior management and other key directors, buyers, managers and supervisors at chain and independent supermarkets, food wholesalers, mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, convenience stores and drugstores. Our editorial package is aimed at the dozens of headquarters titles we serve. Our readers are true decisions makers: they approve, they specify, they buy.

- groceryheadquarters.com

 

 

 

 

 

INDUSTRY NEWS

 

July 14, 2008

Recently, SupermarketNews.com reported that grocery stores in Ontario owned by Metro are dimming interior lights by as much as 50% during a summer effort to reduce demand on Ontario’s power grid. The effort, talking place at A&P, Dominion, Ultra Food & Drug, the Barn, Loeb and Food Basics stores owned by the Montreal-based retailer, are part of the “Leave It Greener” campaign, which also promotes reusable shopping bags, prints sales fliers on recycled paper, offer plastic bag recycling at stores and diverts cardboard and plastics from landfills, Metro said.

July 11, 2008

In a recent StoreFrontBacktalk.com article, Bill Homa, who just stepped down in July 2008 as the CIO for the Hannaford supermarket chain, discussed his views on data security, PCI, Linux, and Microsoft.

July 8, 2008

Loblaw announced a 120,000 sq ft store in Ontario that is to be LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Green Building Rating System) certified, as well as serve as a prototype for future Loblaw stores across the country.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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