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Popchips Unveils New Brand Packaging, Innovations

San Francisco, California-based Popchips has announced a complete brand overhaul with a reimagined visual identity and the debut of two new flavors. After conducting market research to redefine its brand strategy, Popchips has revitalized its distinct package design. The two new innovations, Fiery Buffalo and Fully Loaded, serve as an answer to consumer demand for salty snacks […]

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Bolthouse Farms Launches New Reformulated Dressings

Bakersfield, California-based Bolthouse Farms has launched its new, reformulated dressings line, offering consumers richer, creamier dressings. With enhanced versions of its ranch, blue cheese and caesar dressings, Bolthouse Farms reformulated these dressings with the following in mind: Taste as No. 1 – According to the International Food Information Council’s 2021 Food and Healthy Survey, 82 percent of Americans consider taste […]

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Town & Country Markets, PacWesty Partner For Grocery Delivery Service

Seattle-based Town & Country Markets has partnered with PacWesty to offer customers an all-electric grocery delivery service. Customers place their orders online and select the home delivery option to receive delivery to their doorstep. Among the first companies in Washington State to use a fleet of battery-electric delivery vans, Town & Country and PacWesty began their […]

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Clover Sonoma Expands Organic Moon Milks Brand Nationally

Petaluma, California-based Clover Sonoma, a third-generation family-owned and operated dairy corporation, has launched Organic Moon Milks to expand its brand. The beverages blend 2 percent organic milk, herbs and spices together that can help the body respond to physical and emotional stressors. Available in quart size, Clover Sonoma Moon Milks are available nationally at Whole Foods […]

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Driscoll’s, Plenty Commit To Build First Strawberry Indoor Vertical Farm

California-based companies Driscoll’s and Plenty Unlimited Inc. are expanding their partnership to build a new indoor vertical farm dedicated exclusively to strawberries. After exceeding the goals set forward for the initial stages of the partnership, the two companies are accelerating efforts to grow Driscoll’s berries using Plenty’s unique vertical growing platform. This new farm will provide fresh […]

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Albertsons Companies Offering COVID-19 Tests To Medicare Recipients

Boise, Idaho-based Albertsons Companies has announced that customers with Medicare Part B coverage, including those enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, will be able to get free COVID-19 rapid tests at the company’s more than 1,700 pharmacies.  Those eligible can get up to eight over-the-counter tests each month, without an appointment, through the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.  “We’re committed to making COVID-19 testing easier in the many neighborhoods […]

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CMI Orchards Achieves EFI Certification On Apples, Cherries And Pears

Equitable Food Initiative, the workforce development and certification organization that partners with growers, farmworkers, retailers and consumer advocacy groups, has announced that Washington-based CMI Orchards had achieved its first EFI certification.  More than 50 percent of the captive acreage of apples, cherries and pears marketed by CMI Orchards is EFI certified with the completion of […]

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The Save Mart Co. Names Sampson As Executive Chairman

The Modesto, California-based Save Mart Companies and Kingswood Capital Management have named Shane Sampson as executive chairman of the California-based, regional grocery retailer. The news comes a week after Kingswood, a Los Angeles-based operationally focused private equity firm with experience in the retail sector, announced its acquisition of Save Mart. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. To read the full story […]