by Rick Shanks Chief Sustainability Advisor, Sustainable Environmental Consultants Consumer-driven concerns require a “farm to fork” or food system approach to evaluating environmental impact risk. Consumers today want to know their food is safe, affordable, transparent and sustainably sourced. That means food manufacturers, food marketers and retailers will need to verify that their direct and indirect […]
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Tyson Unveils New Chairman’s Reserve Prime Beef Offering, Look
Tyson Fresh Meats in late February revealed a new Chairman’s Reserve Prime beef item and a refreshed brand look. “Our USDA Prime quality grade beef keeps in step with the exacting standards of our Prime Pork counterpart,” says Ozlem Worpel, senior brand manager of Tyson Fresh Meats, based in Dakota Dunes, South Dakota. The Prime […]
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Analysis Explores Meat And Poultry’s Role In Today’s Food Culture: The Way We Eat, Shop And Live
Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and the Foundation for Meat and Poultry Research and Education—the foundation for the North American Meat Institute—have released The Power of Meat 2019, the 14th annual exploration into how to best optimize meat and poultry’s role in today’s food culture: the way we eat, shop and live. The report examines the $67 billion […]
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Recommended: Whole Foods Drops Small-Format 365 Store Name
Whole Foods 365 stores will soon become a thing of the past. The grocery chain owned by Amazon plans to convert all of its existing 365 stores into regular Whole Foods stores by the end of this year, Yahoo Finance has learned. The move follows its decision to stop expanding the smaller format stores, revealed […]
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Perdue Reiterates Need To Restore Original Intent Of SNAP
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue reiterated during a U.S. Senate hearing Feb. 28 the need to restore the original intent of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is to be a second chance and not a way of life. Perdue’s comments come on the heels of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishing […]
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Balance Innovations Helps Retailers Put Idle Cash To Use Effectively
Taking idle cash and making it available for other purposes is the idea behind Balance Innovations’ new cash forecasting capability. CEO Darren Knipp of the Lenexa, Kansas-based company, told The Shelby Report at the National Retail Federation’s 2019 Big Show, “We’ve historically provided an operational focus solution for stores to help automate their cash management, […]
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USC Marshall School Of Business Honors Al Carey Of PepsiCo
USC Marshall Food Industry Management certificate program will honor Al Carey, CEO of PepsiCo North America, as its 2019 Executive of the Year. Carey will be the keynote speaker at the May graduation banquet, bringing more than 40 years of experience in the consumer packaged goods industry. “Mr. Carey is respected as both a tremendous […]
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Customers Demand Kroger Eliminate Toxic Pesticide Use
This week, more than 5,000 people across the country are delivering letters to Kroger-owned stores demanding that the retailer eliminate use of toxic pesticides on the food it sells and increase offerings of domestic organic food to protect children, farmworkers and help curb catastrophic declines of pollinators and other insects. Larger actions are planned in Washington, D.C.; […]