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Health and wellness, food safety and environmental sustainability have emerged as important social and business drivers for food retailers. These are competitive issues that are economic, but do not deal on price. The big chains, supported by...
Spices including old-timers like ginger and cumin that are coming newly into the spotlight are set to pepper food service this year, according to Mintel researchers. That's one thing Mintel, a Chicago-based market research firm, sees ahead as...
Food retailers are striving to position themselves on the front lines of health and wellness now that the trend is becoming more established, according to a new study and a retailer panel presented during the FMI Midwinter Executive Conference...
Kroger Co. has teamed with Premier HealthNet, Dayton, Ohio, a network of more than 100 primary care physicians, to open in-store, nurse-staffed Premier ExpressCare clinics in two Ohio Kroger stores this month. The clinics are located in...
In a reversal of an earlier decision, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has announced that it will allow the state's milk producers to label products produced without the use of artificial hormones. In October, the state had published...
New York City’s Board of Health approved regulations Tuesday that require any restaurant chain that operates 15 outlets nationwide to display items’ calorie counts on menus, menu boards or food tags.
Two topside food distribution industry figures one a manufacturer, one a retailer issued a challenge to the industry last week to seat a conference that would seek to discover a positive solution to the nation's obesity problem. The call was...
Following a successful test at Indianapolis-based Marsh Supermarkets, two East Coast chains Ukrop's, Richmond, Va., and Hannaford Bros., Scarborough, Maine have rolled out a micronutrient labeling program for beef products developed by the...
Rochester Meat Co., a Rochester, Minn.-based meat processor, has recalled 188,000 pounds of ground beef products produced between Oct. 30 and Nov. 6, 2007, because the products may be contaminated with E. coli, according to the U.S. Department of...