Delhaize To Close Green Cove Springs Distribution Center
Delhaize America is going to close its distribution center in Green Cove Springs and lay off 116 employees. The layoffs will be effective on or after Feb. 9. …
Month: December 2013
Door To Door Organics Expands Service Into Staten Island
Door to Door Organics, a leading natural and organic online grocer, announced today the expansion of its home, office and school delivery services into Staten Island, N.Y. Door to Door Organics currently generates more than $25M throughout Colorado, Missouri, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey, and plans additional national expansion in 2014. …
NPD: GMOs Concern & Confuse Consumers
Over half of U.S. consumers express some level of concern about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), but when asked to describe GMOs, many primary grocery shoppers are unclear and reiterate that its genetically altered sometimes in a favorable way while at other times in an unfavorable way, according to recently released food market research by The NPD Group, a leading global information company. …
Consumer Media Meets Produce Industry Innovators
Over 40 representatives from consumer media explored unique and exotic fresh produce items during a luncheon and presentation at The New York Produce Show and Conference, held on December 11, 2013, at Pier 94 in New York City. Journalists from lifestyle/cooking magazines, food blogs, news services and Internet TV stations experienced a hands-on demonstration from specialty produce supplier Frieda’s and microgreens producer Kerry’s Kitchen Garden. The event included sampling and blind tastings of several uncommon items, including dragonfruit, oro blanco, baby lemon basil and micro-thyme. …
Ciruli Brothers Selects HarvestMark To Power PTI Compliance
YottaMark Inc., provider of HarvestMark, the industry-leading fresh food insights and traceability platform, announced today that Ciruli Brothers, LLC, a third generation grower-shipper and one of the country's leading mango distributors, has selected HarvestMark for its Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI) compliance needs. The system will be deployed across Ciruli's Mexican and US facilities, streamlining case-level traceability for their bell pepper, green bean, tomatillo, hot pepper and mango programs. …