British farmers and butchers benefit from horse meat scandal
JUST when you thought it was safe to look at beef products and assume they were what they said on the packet, things went from bad to worse for the red meat supply chain this ...
View ArticleVoices on the severity of the food safety problem
"Food security is one of the most important problems in China. People didn't have enough food to eat in the past, while now they dare not eat even if they have adequate food."Zhou ...
View ArticleHorse meat finds its way into ready-to-eat meals sold across Europe
Health News: Horse meat has found its way into ready-to-eat meals sold across Europe in a meat mislabeling scandal that has shaken the food industry. Nestle SA has withdrawn beef pasta meals from ...
View ArticleBurger King Twitter hack BK latest company in social media spotlight
You can add Burger King to the list of companies getting a crash course this month in the booms and busts of corporate social media.First, Oreo was praised for its quick-thinking "You can still ...
View ArticleWorld Chefs Lightner makes splash with cutting-edge cuisine
By Richard Leong NEW YORK | Tue Feb 19, 2013 11:56am EST NEW YORK Feb 19 (Reuters) - Making it in New York is tough for a young chef, but Matt Lightner managed to replicate the success he ...
View ArticleBurger King Taps Mother For Lead Creative Role
The New York shop has replaced mcgarrybowen as lead agency on the BK brand, which last year spent nearly $240 million in media, according to ...
View ArticleMayor says police bank accounts paid for hotels travel food for G-20 summit
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl talks to reporters about Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper in front of the City County building downtown, Wednesday. Photo taken February 13, 2013. Andrew Russell | ...
View ArticlePrice Chopper Tries Out Vine
Price Chopper has already started posting short videos of everyday happenings in its stores. "This was just another avenue of which we thought we should at least explore," said Heidi Reale, ...
View ArticleWeis Promotes Seipp to VP of Rx
Weis Markets on Monday said it has promoted Rick Seipp to vice president of pharmacy. Prior to his promotion, he was the company’s director of pharmacy operations. In his new position, Seipp ...
View ArticleIndependents Drive Sales With New Merchandising
Wakefern Food Corp. is engaging in several pilot tests at member-owned ShopRite stores to reinvent their aisles category-by-category, an executive at the Keasbey, N.J.-based cooperative told a ...
View Article2013 Product of the Year Winners Announced
Kimberly Clark Corp.’s Goodnights disposable bed mats and ConAgra Foods’ Healthy Choice Baked Entrees are among the 27 most innovative consumer packaged products of 2013, according to ...
View ArticleSupervalu Eyes Top-Line Growth
Supervalu going forward is to grow sales, Bob Miller told a roomful of Supervalu customers here last week. "There’s only one thing that makes you successful, and that’s growing ...
View ArticleSafeway Tests ‘Card-less’ Debit Card
Safeway is testing a "card-less" debit card that gives shoppers extra fuel rewards each time they use it to pay for groceries. Introduced at stores in the Sacramento, Calif., area, the ...
View ArticleWorlds biggest food firms embroiled in Europe horsemeat scandal
The world's biggest food company, Swiss-based Nestle, and the world's top beef producer, JBS of Brazil, were Tuesday the latest in a long list of firms to be caught up in Europe's ...
View ArticleSino Agro Food Inc. Provides Update on First North Listing
GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --Sino Agro Food, Inc. ( ), an emerging integrated, diversified agriculture technology and organic food company (the "Company") with its ...
View ArticleFood Trends Retail And Sustainability Experts Launch The Food Journal
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Phil Lempert, a food trends, safety and retail expert and editor of The Lempert Report, and Harriet Hentges, Gene Kahn, and Marty Strauss, founders ...
View ArticleSave on food costs even after grocery shopping
Grocery shopping isn't what it used to be. These days there are more choices than ever and purchases are increasingly driven by a few notable trends: o Buying natural and organic.o Gravitating ...
View ArticleUK Horse Drug Mayve Entered Food Chain
As European authorities seek to get to the bottom of horse meat scandal, diners there now have even more reason to beware. Three horse carcasses have tested positive for an equine drug called bute, ...
View ArticleFood Is My Job
Jonas M Luster, http://jml.is/ At a recent food service professionals show, we broached the ever-present topic of "mundanes," people who never worked in or know much about the realities ...
View ArticleMeat Is Murder singer Morrissey succeeds in turning LAs Staples Centre...
Singer Morrissey is to stage a totally vegetarian gig when he resumes his tour after a bout of illness which prompted him to pull a number of US ...
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