Tesco To Buy Booker Group For $4.7 Billion
Tesco PLC, the U.K.'s number one grocer by market share, has agreed to buy food wholesaler Booker Group PLC for GBP3.7 billion ($4.66 billion). …
Month: January 2017
FMI’s Gold Plate Award Winners Achieve Excellence And Extend A Movement
The Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Foundation is proud to recognize the members of the food retail industry who are encouraging shoppers to share more family meals together around the table. In September 2016, 56 food retailers, 15 suppliers, and 37 allied organizations helped the FMI Foundation amplify National Family Meals Month™ to consumers by implementing innovative in-store and media campaigns. The 2016 Gold Plate Award recognizes the best of National Family Meals Month programs. …
FMI & Nielsen Release First Findings On Digitally Engaged Food Shopper
Serving as a resource for retailers and manufacturers as the industry embarks on the next digital frontier, Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Nielsen released a preview of its “Digitally Engaged Food Shopper” analysis at the FMI Midwinter Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. The introductory set of insights from this joint, multi-year initiative offer a comprehensive look into the behaviors, motivations and expectations of the digitally engaged food shopper. …
Why Tomatoes Got Bland – And How To Make Them Sweet Again
To try to bring the taste of bland commercial tomatoes closer to that of their more appetizing ancestors, Harry Klee, a horticultural scientist at the University of Florida, and an international team of horticultural researchers set out to decode exactly what has changed in the tomato genome. They sequenced the genomes of 398 tomato varieties including commercially grown versions as well as wild, ancestral tomatoes and heirloom tomatoes—older, motley strains that are “light-years away from market tomatoes in terms of taste,” …
Durham Region Apple Grower And Marketer Receives Golden Apple Award
A well-known apple grower and marketer from Durham Region is the 2017 recipient of the Arysta Golden Apple Award, which was presented at the Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association annual meeting in Toronto on January 10. …