The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) announced Terry Levee as its new director of food safety programs. Levee will be responsible for developing and implementing programs and activities geared toward helping retail and wholesale food companies meet critical food safety needs. He will report to Hilary Thesmar, Ph.D., RD, FMI’s VP of food safety programs. Levee’s […]
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Kraft Announces Plan to Create Two Independent Companies
The board of directors at Kraft Foods intends to create two independent public companies: A high-growth global snacks business with estimated revenue of approximately $32 billion and a high-margin North American grocery business with estimated revenue of approximately $16 billion.
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Cash and Cart Thieves Prove Stupidity Knows No Boundaries
Theft has no boundaries, and though the venues vary, the absence of common sense does not, either.
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Craft Brews Continuing to Grow
It’s been said that the more things change, the more they stay the same and the beer industry is a prime example.
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Economy Aside, Wine and Beer Sales Still Relatively Good
by Katie B. Davis/staff writer The U.S. surpassed France as the world’s largest wine-consuming nation in 2010, with wine shipments to the U.S. from California, other states and foreign producers growing 2 percent from the previous year to nearly 330 million cases, a record high for the industry, according to the Wine Institute. The estimated […]
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If Your Friends Jumped Off a Cliff…
My husband and I just returned from an indescribably terrific trip to Salem, Mo. We were there for his 30th high school reunion. We’d made it for the 20th, and were excited about seeing everyone again. A half-dozen of us went “floating,” or canoeing on the Current River the Friday before the reunion. It was […]
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It Can Be Done & Here Is the Proof
It almost makes me ill to see the lack of attention given to this most important part of today’s retail operations called Customer Service, which many have turned into Customer-No-Service
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Consumers Save $2B with Coupons in First Half of 2011
first-half 2011 coupon redemption volume reached 1.75 billion, a moderate 2.9 percent increase compared to the first half of last year.