WEST YORKSHIRE, U.K. - Asda is launching a recruitment campaign to increase the proportion of its over-50 employees from about 16 percent to one-in-five, The Financial Times reports.
AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market will receive a Regional Excellence award from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), The WILD Foundation and the host sponsor Animal Planet for its 2001 "Fish for Our Future" educational awareness campaign.
WASHINGTON - Sixteen manufacturers and retailers joined the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Food Marketing Institute in urging the CPG industry to adopt the UCCnet data registry as the North America standard for electronic data sharing.
LONDON - Dutch supermarket group Ahold NV said today it will hold a conference call with analysts Monday to explain an accounting issue that has seen the retailer's shares fall 10 percent in two days, Dow Jones reports.
ORLANDO, Fla. - Fresh Brands' executive vice president Michael Houser and Wal-Mart's senior vice president of food merchandising John Westling will headline next week's inaugural SAMMY reception here.
MINNEAPOLIS - Philippe Starck has collaborated with Target Stores to present Starck Reality, a new collection of more than 50 everyday consumer products jazzed up with modern design.
LONDON - Shareholders in fast-food chain McDonald's will soon be given the chance to vote on whether the company should introduce animal welfare standards worldwide, the BBC reports.
