Matador® Beef Jerky recently launched a new look, feel and taste for the brand. The company’s Quantitative Packaging Study conducted in March shows that the new Matador package design was preferred 3-to-1 over the previous package, and scored 89 percent purchase intent with millennial target consumers. In addition, new Peppered Beef Jerky flavor joins the […]
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Inventure Foods Adds Nathan’s Famous to Its Line of Licensed Brands
Leading food manufacturer, Inventure Foods, has partnered with Nathan’s Famous Inc.to license the popular Nathan’s restaurant brand name for a new line of snacks that will be available at grocery, vending and convenience store retailers this fall. The Nathan’s Famous snacks will offer consumers ready-to-eat snacks that replicate the tastes found within Nathan’s restaurant menu. […]
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Tyson voluntarily recalling packages of ground beef
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. is voluntarily recalling retail packages of ground beef sold in Georgia and other states. The affected ground beef, which might contain E. coli, was shipped by Tyson (NYSE: TSN) to distribution centers in Ohio, Indiana, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. […]
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Walmart’s Castro-Wright to Retire in 2012
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. today announced that Eduardo Castro-Wright, 56, Vice Chairman and CEO of the company’s Global eCommerce and Global Sourcing businesses, will retire on July 1, 2012. Walmart’s goal is to name new leadership for these businesses by the end of January, after which Castro-Wright will assist in the transition. “Eduardo has made many […]
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Family Dollar Names Bloom New COO
Discount retailer Family Dollar Stores Inc. has named Michael K. Bloom as its new president and COO, filling the posts vacated by the retirement of longtime executive R. James Kelly. “Today’s announcement reflects the result of several years of thoughtful discussion and planning as we prepared for Jim’s retirement,” said Chief Executive Howard Levine. Bloom […]
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Ruhland Named Head of Beef Board
Polly Ruhland was named CEO of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board, the Centennial-based organization announced Sept. 20. Ruhland has filled the position on an interim basis since the resignation in late June of Tom Ramey. She joined the Cattlemen’s Beef Board in early 2010 as director of evaluation. Ruhland’s spent more than 20 years in the […]
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Sprouts, Whole Foods Win Green Grocer Award
The Environmental Protection Agency has named Sprouts Farmers Market and Whole Foods as the nation’s two top winners in the government’s GreenChill Partnership. Phoenix-based Sprouts and Austin-based Whole Foods are being recognized by the government for reducing harmful refrigerant emissions. Whole Foods has seven stores in Arizona. Sprouts earned GreenChill’s top award, Best Emissions Rate, […]
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First International Food Safety Training Laboratory Opens
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), University of Maryland, their Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition and the Waters Corp. have opened the International Food Safety Training Laboratory, a groundbreaking public-private partnership that applies government, university and private industry expertise and resources to the global food safety challenge. The IFSTL (www.ifstl.org) is […]