ST. PAUL, Minn. - Ecolab announced it has purchased Audits International, a Chicago-based provider of food safety audits and food retail quality evaluations.
Anthrax in the flour? Smallpox in the watermelon? We pray it won't happen, but we all know it can. Here's how food retailers are girding for the terrorist threat.
NEW YORK - Poor neighborhoods have fewer supermarkets and food service offerings than wealthier areas, according to a study by the US Environmental Protection Agency that was recently published in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Reuters reports.
LONDON - Record numbers of customers helped the UK's Asda, the supermarket group owned by Wal-Mart, report double digit like-for-like sales growth over Christmas, the Financial Times reports.
LONDON - Britain's four biggest supermarket chains on Tuesday signed a code of practice intended to prevent them from abusing their power over suppliers, Reuters reports.
NORTHFIELD, Ill. - Kraft Foods and FS Acquisition Corp., a subsidiary of Catterton Partners, announced today an agreement for FS Acquisition to acquire the U.S.-based Farley and Sathers confectionery businesses from Kraft.
