Barry Callebaut Enhances Signature Cocoa Horizons Sustainability Program

July 5, 2016 Barry Callebaut

The program is aimed at improving the livelihoods of smallholder cocoa farmers through farm and community level activities. It is part of the company’s initiatives to help ensure that cocoa is grown in a sustainable way, generating better income for farmers and safeguarding the environment. The programme will be expanded in Ghana and additional origin countries in the coming years.

Shamrock Foods Rewards Excellence With 2016 Supplier Of The Year Awards

July 5, 2016 Shamrock Foods

Shamrock Foods, one of the top 10 foodservice distributors nationwide, is recognizing its supplier partners' excellence with the 2016 Supplier of the Year Awards, presented during the company's annual Supplier Summit. Also presented was a check for $50,000 to benefit the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society.

Brinker International Commits To Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP)

Brinker International, Inc., one of the world’s leading casual-dining restaurant companies, has committed to source Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) product, as part of its sustainable seafood procurement policy, the Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) announced on July 1.

Eat Your Art Out: Intellectual Property Protection For Food

July 5, 2016 Foley Hoag, LLP

Let’s face it, we live in a food-crazed world. Our current preoccupation with food has less to do with eating it; we also are fascinated with looking at it. Posting photos of food on Instagram is now a universal pastime. Food reality shows like Top Chef, Cake Boss, and Chopped are extremely popular and chefs are now considered bona fide celebrities, known internationally for their signature recipes.

Four Foodservice Educators Receive Top Honors In Sysco Corporation-Sponsored Awards Program

July 5, 2016 Sysco

Four foodservice educators representing Florida, Kentucky and New York were honored as the best in their field in the 2016 CAFÉ/Sysco Corporation Educator of the Year Awards presented at the 12th-Annual Leadership Conference of the Center for the Advancement of Foodservice Education (CAFÉ) in Chicago on June 23.