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Straight Hemp Launches CBD Line In Earth Fare Stores

Arvada, Colorado-based CBD wellness company Straight Hemp has launched its CBD oil and balm products in wellness supermarket chain Earth Fare.  Earth Fare is the largest retailer that Straight Hemp has partnered with to date. The company’s products are available in 57 Earth Fare locations across 10 states, reaching more mainstream and health-conscious shoppers. As […]

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Riviana Foods Expands Ready-To-Serve Rice Plant In Memphis

Riviana Foods Inc. has expanded its production capacity for its microwaveable rice products under the Minute rice brand. This expansion, a $27 million investment which will double current operational output, represents the second time in three years that Riviana has implemented a significant capital project to improve ready-to-serve production capabilities at its 400,000-s.f. processing and packaging plant […]

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Barnana Brings Industry Veteran Multari On Board As New CEO

Barnana, the natural snack brand that makes banana and plantain-based snacks, has brought in the former CEO of instant noodle company, Nissin North America, Al Multari, to lead its team. Barnana founder and former CEO Cauê Suplicy said, “We are proud to announce Al Multari as the new CEO. Barnana has always been driven by […]

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Update: General Mills Reaches Agreement, Quaker Oats Ratifies Contract

The Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s (RWDSU) Local 110 said that more than 500 workers at the General Mills processing plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, have reached a tentative contract agreement with the company. The worker-led negotiation committee said it worked to secure a strong tentative agreement that stops the bleed out of their […]

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Boochcraft Now Distributing Its High-Alcohol Kombucha In Colorado

Chula Vista, California-based Boochcraft, a handcrafted high-alcohol kombucha brand made with fresh-pressed juices, will now offer its variety of flavors to Colorado. Boochcraft will distribute through CSArtistans Distributing. To mark the new distribution, local events will commence this month with information soon to follow. “The demand for Boochcraft in Colorado has been loud and clear […]

Posted inMeat/Seafood/Poultry, Marketing News, Perishables, Suppliers, West

Crowd Cow, Midan Marketing To Research Online Meat Consumers

Seattle, Washington-based Crowd Cow, an online marketplace for craft meats, has entered a strategic partnership with Midan Marketing, a full-service marketing agency based in Chicago that serves clients in the meat industry. The goal of the partnership is to clearly define who the online meat shopper is and how to best serve their needs. “Partnering […]

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Good Day Chocolate To Launch Functional CBD Chocolate Line

Boulder, Colorado-based Good Day Chocolate, the nationally distributed, category creator of chocolate supplements, is launching a new CBD product line that combines Fair Trade chocolate with pure, third-party-tested CBD in the form of broad spectrum hemp extract, organically grown at farms in Oregon and Colorado, with zero percent THC. The company says as a whole […]

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Strike Looms At General Mills Production Facility In Iowa

According to the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union’s (RWDSU) Local 110, the workers at General Mills’ production facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, may go on strike. At their last negotiations meeting, General Mills presented a “last, best and final” offer to workers. The offer did not include any real protections of a labor contract, […]