The Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA), a trade association representing 114 plant-based food companies, has released new data showing robust sales in the plant-based foods industry with dollar sales growth of 20 percent over the last year and sales topping $3.3 billion. “The plant-based foods industry has gone from being a relatively niche market to […]
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Milam’s Markets Opening Its Fifth Florida Grocery Store This Summer
Milam’s Markets, a family-owned and -operated grocery store chain serving Florida’s Miami-Dade County since 1984, will open a new location—the grocer’s fifth—this summer. The new store will be in Pinecrest on S. Dixie Highway and S.W. 117th Street, in a space formerly occupied by Whole Foods. Construction began on the approximately 32,000-s.f. Milam’s Market in […]
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Blue Bell Introduces Key Lime Mango Tart Flavor
Blue Bell closed out July, National Ice Cream Month, with the launch of a new flavor—Key Lime Mango Tart, a sweet and tangy key lime ice cream blended with graham cracker crust pieces and a mango sauce swirl. “We like to think of our new Key Lime Mango Tart as sunshine in a carton,” said Joe […]
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Costco, Publix Named Top-Rated Workplaces By Indeed
Costco and Publix have been named among Indeed’s 2018 Top-Rated Workplaces. Out of 50 companies, Costco ranked No. 5, and Publix ranked No. 19, moving up from number 23 last year. Indeed compiled the list from ratings and reviews of the companies featured on this year’s Fortune 500 list. One review of Costco highlighted by Indeed cites […]
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Blackwells Withdrawing Supervalu Director Nominees
Supervalu Inc. has entered into an agreement with Blackwells Capital under which Blackwells will withdraw its director nominees and vote all of its shares in support of Supervalu’s full slate of directors at the company’s annual meeting of stockholders, to be held on Aug. 16. Blackwells also has withdrawn its stockholder proposal, which was to be considered […]
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Decas Cranberry Products Rebranding To Decas Farms
Decas Cranberry Products, a cranberry producer and distributor based in Carver, Massachusetts, is rebranding as Decas Farms. Company officials say the move is an effort to better convey the company’s 84-year-old, family-run history and its commitment to working with “the best cranberry growers and products on the market.” As part of the rebrand, Decas Farms […]
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Nine States’ Attorneys General Ask FDA To Ban Flavored Tobacco
Attorneys General of New York, Idaho, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island recently sent a joint letter to the FDA to ask the agency to ban flavored tobacco products, saying the use of flavors and menthol in tobacco impedes them from reaching public health goals related to smoking. “Based on the substantial […]
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Johnson & Johnson Acquiring Health And Wellness Company Zarbee’s
Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zarbee’s Inc., a privately held producer of natural healthcare products. The acquisition will include the full line of Zarbee’s Naturals products for children and adults. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Zarbee’s Naturals was founded in 2008 by Dr. Zak Zarbock, “a pediatrician who […]