FRESHDIRECT ADDS NEW INDIAN LINE CREATED BY CHEF NEW YORK FreshDirect, an online, fresh foods home-delivery company serving the New York Metro area, has added a line of Indian cuisine with the help of Chef Floyd Cardoz of the upscale Tabla...
The yogurt category has been a reliable workhorse for the supermarket dairy case during the past 25 years, constantly evolving to meet consumer needs. During the latest 52 weeks ending Feb. 24, dollar sales of yogurt and yogurt drinks were up...
Pilgrim's Pride's announcement this month that it will close a North Carolina production facility along with six distribution centers is likely the first of many similar moves that will be made by poultry processors this year, as producers attempt...
Through a partnership with World Wide Seafood, a buyer and distributor operating from New York City's venerable Fulton Fish Market, A&P has launched Seafood Joe's Market Fresh Fish, a program that will offer shoppers fresh fish caught and...
Supermarket retailers may be overlooking opportunities to position their meat departments as health and wellness destinations, Mary K. Young, vice president of nutrition for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, said during a presentation at...
The announcement by Pilgrim’s Pride this week that it would close a North Carolina production facility along with six distribution centers is likely the first of many similar moves that will be made by poultry processors this year, as...
SUNDAY, MARCH 9 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.Pre-Conference Event Meat2MeetOne-on-one sessions between retailers and suppliers 2:00-2:15 p.m.Opening/WelcomeLuke LaPerriere, VP, meat/casement sales and procurement, Harris Teeter; and Jim Schloss, corporate...
The Humane Society of the United States — the animal rights group that recently made headlines with an undercover video that sparked a recall of 143 million pounds of beef produced by Hallmark/Westland, Chino, Calif. — has announced...
R-CALF USA, a nonprofit organization representing cattle producers nationally, has announced its support for a proposal that would trace back E. coli- or salmonella-contaminated beef to its source of contamination, which R-CALF officials say is in...