Blue Bell is combining two consumer favorites in its latest ice cream flavor, Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream. It combines chocolate ice cream with peanut butter cookie dough pieces and milk chocolate chunks. The new flavor is arriving in stores this week. “We have made flavors with chocolate and peanut butter before, but […]
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Aunt Dottie’s Renamed Greenjoy; Launches New Logo, Packaging, Website
Aunt Dottie’s is rebranding its products as Greenjoy, revamping all its packaging and launching a new website. The name Greenjoy comes from the company’s line of Pressed Salad Bars and its relevance to the company’s goals—to bring joy to eating healthy greens and vegetables. As it continues to expand, the company is uniting all its […]
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News America Marketing To Bring Blockchain Tech To Retail Incentives
Leveraging the power of blockchain technology, News America Marketing, a marketer of online and offline consumer incentives, is incubating and testing new ways to “modernize how consumers, brands and retailers use incentives.” Blockchain is a digital ledger of economic transactions that cannot be corrupted and can record virtually everything of value. For incentives, it allows for greater […]
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Blackwells Capital Nominates Six For Supervalu Board Of Directors
Blackwells Capital LLC, an alternative investment management firm with ownership representing an approximately 4.9 percent interest in Supervalu Inc., has nominated six independent candidates for election to Supervalu’s board of directors at the upcoming 2018 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. On March 20, Blackwells submitted a broad slate of independent nominees “given the significant destruction of […]
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Mitchell Grocery To Purchase Three Alabama Winn-Dixie Stores
Mitchell Grocery Corp. has entered into an agreement to purchase three Winn-Dixie store locations in Alabama from Winn-Dixie’s parent company, Southeastern Grocers LLC. All three stores are located in northeast Alabama in the cities of Jacksonville, Oxford and Pell City. Mitchell Grocery is purchasing the stores on behalf of two of its current customers, Johnson’s Giant Foods and The D’Alessandro Organization LLC. Johnson’s […]
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Campbell Completes Snyder’s-Lance Acquisition, Creates Snacks Division
Campbell Soup Co. has completed the acquisition of Snyder’s-Lance Inc. for $50 per share in an all-cash transaction, which represents an enterprise value of approximately $6.1 billion. “Snyder’s-Lance represents a strategic and transformative acquisition for Campbell, creating a $10 billion company with nearly half of our annual net sales in the faster-growing snacks category,” said […]
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New York, Philadelphia & Miami Top Best Cities For Fresh Food Access
New York is the best city for fresh-food access, with 75 percent of its residents living within a five-minute walk of a grocery store or year-round farmers market, followed by Philadelphia at 64 percent and Miami at 57 percent. This is according to a new report by real estate brokerage Redfin, which analyzed Walk Score data for 48 major […]
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RifRaf Ricotta Snack Cups Launching In Select Whole Foods Stores
RifRaf Ricotta Cups—a first-of-its-kind ricotta cheese snack, according to startup company RifRaf—are coming to the dairy aisle at select Whole Foods Market stores. Combining spoonable, lightly cultured whole milk ricotta and a sidecar of flavored jams and honeys, RifRaf hopes to “upset an otherwise uniform yogurt category.” The Ricotta Cups will launch in five inaugural flavors: […]