Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. Announces Leadership Changes

June 21, 2019 Sprouts Farmers Market

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: SFM) today announced that Jack L. Sinclair has been appointed as the company’s chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors, effective June 24, 2019.

FoodChain ID Acquires Decernis

June 21, 2019 Paine Schwartz Partners

Decernis delivers enterprise solutions that integrate with client processes to give horizon scanning and predictive analytics based on artificial intelligence, speed-to-market with recipe clearance, supply chain management, and reference databases. These solutions provide the most complete regulatory intelligence software suite on the market, covering over 90,000 global regulations in more than 200 countries.

Google Express Goes Green With Israeli Compostable Packaging

A sustainable Israeli packaging solution is now being offered by Google Express as a cost-effective and plastic-free alternative to the hundreds of retailers and brands on its US shopping platform.

IGA and FoodHero Join Forces to Reduce Food Waste

June 21, 2019 IGA

IGA and FoodHero are announcing the launch of a mobile app to fight food waste and offer Quebecers discounts on perfectly edible food close to their expiration date. After successfully launching a pilot project in its Langelier store in collaboration with Montréal-based start-up FoodHero, IGA is expanding its program to five other stores before ultimately rolling it out to all of its Québec supermarkets.

Whole Foods Closing Pigeon Cove Fish Plant

For the second time in little more than a month, one of the city’s shoreside seafood processing companies said it is closing operations and sending a locally-based workforce to the unemployment line.