BlueNalu, a San Diego-based food company developing seafood products directly from fish cells, recently held a culinary demonstration of one of its first commercial products, yellowtail amberjack, prepared with various cooking techniques. Investors and global partners were on hand to witness the preparation of the product. The company plans to introduce cell-based seafood in a […]
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Vital Farms Donates Eggs, Partners With Food Banks For Holiday Meals
Vital Farms is teaming up with food banks across the country to provide more than 19 million eggs to families in need. Local partners include: Central Texas Food Bank, Southwest Missouri’s Ozarks Food Harvest, South Atlantic grocery retailer Harris Teeter and Northern Illinois Food Bank. Pasture-raised egg donations provide a protein-packed food staple during a time of year when egg donations […]
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Our Life Foods Acquires Cajun-Inspired Beverage Swamp Pop
Our Life Foods, maker of A Cajun Life, an authentically Certified Cajun food brand, has added Louisiana-based Swamp Pop to its brand portfolio. Swamp Pop premium sugarcane soda will now be a brand under the Our Life Foods brand umbrella, among other Cajun brands such as A Cajun Life. Swamp Pop is available throughout the […]
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Anchor Brewing Co. Workers Sign First Union Contract
Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 6, recently approved the first union contract in the history of 123-year-old Anchor Brewing Co. On Dec. 20, 62 workers at Anchor Brewing Co., which produces San Francisco’s Steam Beer, and includes Anchor Public Taps, the company’s brew pub, voted to ratify a three-year contract negotiated […]
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Hormel Named One Of America’s Most Responsible Companies
Hormel Foods Corp., a global branded food company, was recently named of one America’s Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek magazine. The Austin, Minnesota-based company came in at No.100 on the inaugural list of 300 companies recognized. “As a leading corporate citizen, we are honored to be recognized for the outstanding work we are doing on […]
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Blue Diamond Almond Growers To Be Featured On Rose Parade Float
Blue Diamond, the Sacramento, California-based almond marketer and processor, is bringing its almond-growing history to life in this year’s Rose Parade, the annual New Year’s Day event held in Pasadena, California. This is the second year the brand will participate in the parade. Blue Diamond’s Rose Parade float will feature Almond Breeze Almondmilk as the […]
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Hormel Tackles School Lunch Debt In Plant Communities For The Holidays
Hormel Foods Corp. is tackling school lunch debt at several schools in its plant communities this holiday season through a special one-time gift. The company is contributing more than $28,000 to help the schools and families in six of its plant communities, with plans to help its other plant communities in the future. In the […]
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Court Approves $850 Million In DIP Financing For Dean Foods
The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas has entered a final order granting Dallas, Texas-based Dean Foods Co. authority to access the full amount of its $850 million in debtor-in-possession (“DIP”) financing. The company previously had received interim approval from the court to access up to $475 million of the DIP financing. […]
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Bashas’, Hormel Foods Donate Hams To Help Feed Arizona Families
Hunger and food insecurity is a reality for thousands of Arizona families. That’s why Bashas’ teamed up with Hormel Foods to donate more than 3,000 hams to Arizona families in need on Wednesday, Dec. 18. Four organizations—St. Mary’s Food Bank, United Food Bank, the Navajo Nation Veterans Administration and Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona—came […]
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Hawaiian Springs Forms Partnership With Navigator Sales & Marketing
Hawaiian Springs recently partnered with Navigator Sales & Marketing, choosing the company as its new sales broker. The company says its combined dynamic leadership team is excited to implement its strategic sales and marketing plan to drive customers into stores. Hawaiian Springs says its offers authentic natural artesian water from Hawaii. It is bottled exclusively at […]
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Alltown Fresh Opens Fresh Convenience Market In Ayer, Massachusetts
Alltown Fresh officially opened the doors to the second fresh store in the state of Massachusetts. Located at 28 Harvard Road in Ayer, the farmstand-style market features organic coffee, fresh food choices and made-to-order meals including organic, natural, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian and locally sourced food and ingredients. The concept store hosted a grand opening event […]
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Edgewell Completes Sale Of Infant, Pet Care Business To Angelcare
Edgewell Personal Care Co. has completed the sale of its infant and pet care business to Le Holding Angelcare Inc. for $122.5 million in cash. Shelton, Connecticut-based Edgewell says it will use the net proceeds from the sale to strengthen its balance sheet. “Completing this transaction is a key step in the transformation of Edgewell’s […]
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Sprouts Shares Whole30 Shopping List For New Year’s Resolutioners
In celebration of the New Year, Sprouts Farmers Market has published a Whole30 Shopping List for those who want to reset their health, habits and relationship with food by participating in the January Whole30. To further educate customers about the Whole30 program, Sprouts will host a series of store events featuring book giveaways and expert advice with […]
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Lehi Mills Launching Its First-Ever Vegan Line Of Mixes
Lehi Mills, a family-run mill located in Lehi, Utah, is launching its first-ever line of vegan mixes. The product line includes a vegan pancake/waffle mix, vegan brownie mix and vegan raspberry muffin mix. Starting early 2020, Lehi Mills customers will find the new vegan products on the company website and on Amazon. Shortly after the […]
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Khayat Retiring From Sanderson Farms Board Of Directors
Robert C. Khayat will retire from the Sanderson Farms Inc. board of directors, effective Dec. 31. “Robert Khayat has been a valued member of the Sanderson Farms board of directors since 2007,” said Joe F. Sanderson Jr., chairman and CEO of Sanderson Farms. “He brought a unique perspective to the company with his extensive academic […]
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Veteran-Owned Battle Bars Appoints Witt As New CEO
Battle Bars LLC, a protein bar company based in Riviera Beach, Florida, has appointed Alex Witt to the role of CEO. Witt is a Navy veteran who served from June 2001 until August 2005, including stints in Iraq in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Witt was honorably discharged and immediately started the transition from active […]
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National Bacon Day Notes The Popularity Of Pork Belly
National Bacon Day is Dec. 30, and Americans are enjoying the cut of meat in more ways than ever before, according to an article by Adam Russell with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. The National Pork Board reported U.S. consumption of bacon increased 2.4 percent from 2001-2013, with Americans consuming about 1.1 billion servings […]
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New Stater Bros. Store Planned For Whittier, California
Plans are currently underway to build a new Stater Bros. Markets store at the southeast corner of Whittier Boulevard and Sorensen Avenue in the community of Whittier, California. The new site, which will be built from the ground up, will join the commercial sector of The Groves in Whittier, developed by Frontier Real Estate Investments. […]
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Albertsons Cos. Introduces One- To Two-Hour Prescription Delivery
Patients can now get prescription delivery in as little as one to two hours at select Albertsons Cos. pharmacies in Louisiana, Texas and the District of Columbia, decreasing the time they must wait to receive medications. The new service is available at Albertsons Cos. pharmacies in the following markets: Safeway pharmacies in San Jose, California, […]
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GAP Welcomes Fair Farm Colorado, Its First Certified Egg Operation
Fair Farm Colorado, based in Longmont, Colorado, is the first egg operation to be certified to the Laying Hen and Pullet standards of the Global Animal Partnership (GAP), a comprehensive farm animal welfare standards program. Fair Farm Colorado’s operation is certified to GAP’s Entire Life on Farm (Step 5+). “Fair Farm just received GAP’s top animal […]