Wholesale Trade

A man takes out a parasol outside a fish shop near Tsukiji Wholesale Market in Tokyo Thursday, March 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa) Copyright 2010 AP News

<div id="subtitle">Summary Box: Wholesale prices surge, retail sales weak and Bernanke sees difficulties</div><div><p>INFLATION: Wholesale prices jumped sharply in June, reflecting surging energy and food costs. For the past 12 months, prices are up 9.2 percent, the biggest gain in 27 years.</p>< ...

Nash Finch reports fiscal 4th-quarter loss on large goodwill impairment charge Food distributor Nash Finch Co. on Thursday reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss stemming from a major goodwill impairment charge it logged during the period. Shares of the company fell $3.36, or ...

<div id="subtitle">Wholesale prices fall unexpectedly last month, driven by lower food and energy costs</div><div><p>Wholesale prices dropped sharply last month as the cost of food, gasoline and home heating oil plummeted, fresh evidence that inflation appears to pose little immediate threat to the ...

<div><p>Scottish and Southern Energy yesterday became the first of the big six energy suppliers to signal that lower gas and electricity bills could be on the way.</p><p>The company, the second largest energy supplier after British Gas, said that if recent falls in ...

<div id="subtitle">Wholesale prices down for second straight month in September as oil, natural gas prices fall</div><div><p>The government says wholesale prices fell for the second straight month in September, driven by a sharp drop in energy costs.</p><p>The Labor Department says ...

<div id="subtitle">April wholesale prices rise bigger-than-expected 0.3 pct, reflecting big surge in food costs</div><div><p>Wholesale prices have risen more than expected in April as the biggest jump in food costs in more than a year offset a second monthly decline in the price ...

<div><h1> SYSCO HUSTLES TO KEEP RESTAURANTS COOKING </h1><p>On a recent Monday morning, Everett Sanderson paced in the kitchen of a Houston warehouse owned by food distribution giant Sysco. The owner of Sanderson's Restaurant &amp; Bar in Nederland, Tex., was there to get ...

<div><p>Japanese wholesale prices dropped by a record 8.5 percent in July from a year earlier, the central bank said Wednesday.</p><p>The fall was steeper than a revised 6.7 percent drop in June and marked the seventh straight month of year-on-year declines, the Bank ...

<div id="subtitle">AmerisourceBergen promotes Steven Collins to executive vice president of largest division</div><div><p>Drug distributor AmerisourceBergen Corp. said Monday it promoted the head of its specialty drug division to lead Amerisource Drug Corp., the company's largest subsidiary.</p><p>In his new role ...