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Antibiotic free is the buzzword for a lot of poultry producers venturing into the natural chicken market. But the term is almost old hat at Bell & Evans, the pioneer that put natural chicken on the map. At Bell & Evans' headquarters in...
Nature's Path is known for its breakfast cereals, but it continues to blaze new trails in other categories. Case in point: The Richmond, British Columbia-based company recently forged an alliance with health guru Dr. Andrew Weil, whose endorsement...
The Distinction of Hybrid isn't just for cars anymore. Take Marvelous Market, for example. This specialty grocer in the Washington, D.C., metro area is successfully blending better, healthier and faster food, and packaging it all in a gourmet...
Nap Time is Over for Baby Food. A number of imaginative products, many of them organic, are starting to reawaken category sales. I think what is happening now is pretty amazing, said Dave Bennett, co-owner of Mollie Stone's Markets, Mill Valley...
Big dairy took a hit this summer, and the fight is likely to continue into the fall. Consumer and small-farm advocates said they have taken up legal challenges to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's decision allowing Aurora Organic Dairy to...
These days, it's almost routine for supermarkets to offer consumers healthy food options under one program or another. Heinen's Fine Foods took a different route by teaming up with the Cleveland Clinic to develop and co-brand the Healthy Appetite...
Wine is a category on the move, and wellness is playing a big part. According to the Organic Trade Association, sales of organic wine hit $80 million in 2005, and are expected to grow at 17% a year through next year. Red wine in particular has...
Over the course of 20 years, Applegate Farms has gone from supplying a handful of small natural food stores to selling its deli products to conventional supermarkets and even a few Wal-Marts. The surging demand for natural and organic deli...
Score one for consumer choice: The Federal Trade Commission has declined to go after dairy processors who advertise their milk as hormone-free. Monsanto Co., which makes the synthetic hormone rBST, or recombinant bovine somatotropin, has been...
Wal-Mart Stores will donate $550,000 toward recovery efforts associated with the floods in the Midwest and $50,000 worth of merchandise, it announced yesterday.