Caribou Coffee Co. Inc., the second largest company-operated premium coffeehouse retailer in the United States, plans to expand its retail and commercial footprint in the Chicagoland area by teaming up with Jewel-Osco, the city’s market-leading grocery chain. To kick-off this partnership, Caribou Coffee opened its first retail location within Jewel-Osco’s Barrington store last week, with […]
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Ball Closing Two Plants in Ohio and Florida
Ball Corp. is ceasing production at two North American beverage packaging manufacturing plants to consolidate the company’s 12-oz. beverage can and end production capacity to meet changing market demand. Ball will cease production at its metal beverage packaging plants in Columbus, Ohio, and Gainesville, Fla., by the end of the fourth quarter of 2012, subject […]
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Monsanto Gives $4.2M to Kill California GMO Labeling Initiative
New campaign finance reports reveal that Monsanto Co. recently contributed $4.2 million to defeat Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered food. That is the largest contribution in the race. Total contributions to defeat Proposition 37 amount to $25 million, and nearly $23 million during the last week. Other major new contributions against […]
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Kraft Approves Spin-Off of North American Grocery Business
Kraft Foods Inc.’s board of directors has approved the spin-off of its North American grocery business and declared a pro rata distribution of shares of Kraft Foods Group Inc. (which will hold the North American grocery business) to holders of Kraft Foods Inc. common stock. The board also declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.29 […]
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Frito-Lay Rolls Out Growing Fleet Of All-Electric Delivery Trucks
Senior leadership from PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America division was joined Aug. 9 by California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., Matt Rodriquez, secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency and Gregory Winterbottom, chairman of the Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee to announce the growth of Frito-Lay’s California electric truck fleet. Once all of the […]
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California Salmon Harvests Are Up
Salmon fishermen are reporting increased landings of California king salmon with the population rebounding from the low numbers seen since 2007. According to Aaron Newman, chairman of the California Salmon Council, “the salmon are finally back in larger numbers, which is good news for consumers.” Blustery weather this May, when the season opened, kept many […]
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Campbell Completes Acquisition of Bolthouse Farms
Campbell Soup Co. has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Bolthouse Farms from a fund managed by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, a private equity firm, for $1.55 billion in cash. Campbell funded the acquisition through a combination of short- and long-term borrowings. Headquartered in Bakersfield, Calif., Bolthouse is a vertically integrated food and […]
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Organic Alliance Signs $5.3M Produce Supply Contract
Organic Alliance, a global grower and marketer of fresh, organic and Fair Trade fruits and vegetables, signed an organic produce supply contract that it expects will generate $5.3 million to $6 million in sales revenue. The contract is with a Northern Mexico-based, family-owned grower of certified organic produce with more than 10 years of experience […]