Chicago-based Label Insight introduced Explore Plus for Category Management, which enables Label Insight's high-order attribute data, images and unmasked information on private brand products to be combined with market measurement tools to deliver insights on specific product attributes.

Symphony Retail Solutions (Symphony GOLD), Atlanta, and EIQ, Boston, Mass., announced the results of their category management survey of U.S. retailers.

As the growth curve in the cold food industry continues upward, movers seek to protect their share, big players scramble to protect declines in their core and small, innovative brands ride the category wave and carve out their own niche. Here's how one stands out in a saturated product category.