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- Food Roundup: Dole Goes Public, Jamba Goes Retail, TCBY Goes Free, and More
- Dole to go public -- Dole Food Co. announced plans for an initial public stock offering after being a private company since 2003. Dole plans to raise $500 million, in part to pay off its debts, and it's applying to list on the New York Stock Exchange with DOLE as...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- Food Roundup: Wal-Mart Sustainability Index, E. Coli Mystery and More
- Wal-Mart to measure sustainability of all products -- Wal-Mart has been developing a "sustainability index" to measure the environmental impact of every product it sells. The company isn't set to announce the project until Thursday, according to Marc Gunther of The Big Money, but he spoke with faculty at the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Whole Foods Pushes Non-GMO Label
- Whole Foods has partnered with the Non-GMO Project in an attempt to promote testing and labeling of foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients. The grocer's private label products will use the project's Product Verification Program PVP, which uses on-site facility audits and DNA testing to ensure compliance. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Second Thoughts on Dunkin' Donuts, Pizza Hut and Social Media
- I recently praised Dunkin' Donuts new "Dunkin' Run" program, a web site and iPhone application that helps coordinate coffee-and-donut runs among friends or colleagues, but perhaps I was too hasty. Apparently the iPhone application has an average rating of only two stars -- and you can't register from the iPhone...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Bottled Water Faces New Scrutiny
- Bottled water, long the enemy of environmentalists, is now getting picked on over a new issue: regulation. As in, there really isn't any. Tap water, it turns out, is regulated more strictly than water sold in a bottle. As a food product, bottled water is regulated by the Food...
- Blog posts 2009-07-10
- Fraud Helps Dole in Nicaragua Banana Pesticide Case
- A couple of weeks ago a judge in Los Angeles threw out a pair of lawsuits against Dole Food Co. involving Nicaraguan banana workers who claimed they suffered health problems because of the chemical pesticide DBCP known locally in Nicaragua by the brand name Nemagon. The latest...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Dole Sues Creators of 'Bananas!' Documentary
- Dole has filed a defamation suit against the maker of the documentary "Bananas!" which covers a banana pesticide case brought by a group of Nicaraguans against Dole. Before the film came out, Dole sent cease and desist letters to the filmmakers and tried to persuade the Los...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Burger King Apologizes for Hindu Goddess Ad
- Burger King has apologized for a print ad depicting the Hindu goddess Lakshmi sitting on top of a meat sandwich under words that translated, "Snack is sacred." The ad only ran locally to promote a few stores in Spain, but the company has withdrawn the poster in response to letters...
- Blog posts 2009-07-09
- Social Media Highlights: Dunkin' Donuts, Pizza Hut, Domino's and More
- Yesterday I wrote about Cadbury's success with social media in the UK, where Facebook fans demanded Cadbury relaunch Wispa Gold, a favorite old chocolate bar. Here are some cool social media news items from closer to home. Dunkin' Donuts launched a program that helps coordinate donut runs....
- Blog posts 2009-07-08
- Can McDonald's Better Burger Compete?
- As popular as McDonald's is, food-lovers don't generally argue that the chain's burgers are the best. They may be among the cheapest and the most convenient, but the highest quality? Not so much. That's more the territory of places like Five Guys Burgers and Fries, which make...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Cadbury Wispa Gold: Social Marketing Win
- Internet fans have spoken. They want Cadbury to bring back its Wispa Gold chocolate bar in the UK. And Cadbury has answered: shucks, all right. After more than 22,000 fans joined the Facebook group "Bring Back Cadbury's Wispa Gold" -- supposedly on their own, with no prodding...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Anger at Horizon 'Natural' Designation
- After years of rapid growth, the demand for organic products is stagnating. Horizon Organic, one of the country's biggest players in organic milk, is responding by launching its first non-certified organic products, which it will market as "natural." Natural is a meaningless term, as far as official...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Wal-Mart Sides With Obama on Health Care
- Wal-Mart made waves with its recent announcement that it supports requiring large employers to offer health insurance benefits to their workers. Wal-Mart has long been a favorite villain for activists, and there are multiple websites dedicated to critiquing the company's actions on numerous issues, including employee health care. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- E-Coupon Trend on the Rise
- A company called WOW Deal just launched a new mobile coupon service for restaurants. Right before lunch, customers who have signed up for the service will receive, via text message, two-for-one coupons good at local restaurants. Electronic coupons have been on companies' radar for awhile now, but...
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- By Any Other Name: Starbucks Goes Incognito
- Apparently Starbucks has decided to venture into a new business: that of the "little, neighborhood coffee shop." The company took a Seattle store slated for closure and instead decided to reopen the place as 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea, a coffee shop without any Starbucks logos or branding. ...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Rockstar Exec, Son of Michael Savage, Disavows Homophobia
- It's amazing how fast reputations can rise and fall, thanks to the Internet. Within the gay and lesbian community, Rockstar Energy Drinks recently went from off the radar to pariah to best friend, all within a couple of months. It started when a guest blogger on the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- Is John Mackey Clueless About Whole Foods' Customer Base?
- Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is learning a valuable lesson for all of us. As it turns out, the kind of people who are willing to spend extra money for organic, environmentally-friendly, locally sourced food are not generally the kind of people who respond well to op-ed pieces that start...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- PepsiCo to Enter Coconut Water Market
- PepsiCo has agreed to purchase Brazil's largest producer of coconut water, which is a popular drink not only in Latin America but also in India, Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. For an undisclosed sum, PepsiCo will buy Amacoco, which produces Brazil's leading coconut water brands Kero Coco...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Big Brands Warn of Sugar Crisis
- Kraft Foods, General Mills, Hershey and Mars are worried about our sugar supply. So worried, in fact, they helped write a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack warning that the U.S. could "virtually run out of sugar" if our tariff system is not adjusted. For all...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Official Scrutiny for National Organic Program
- In response to widespread criticism and growing public distrust, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has ordered an independent audit of the National Organic Program. Starting in October, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will take a look at existing organic standards and the nearly 100 private...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
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