Nonfoods

PMA's Bryan Silbermann urges grocers and other produce players to listen to consumers, and act on what they hear.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American Meat Institute (AMI) here joined other meat industry trade associations in expressing outrage over the findings of a study released yesterday by two cancer research organizations urging consumers to limit red meat consumption and avoid processed meat.

BRAMPTON, Ont. -- In the largest food launch in its nearly 25-year history, Loblaws' President's Choice private label brand will unveil 140 new food products when the 2007 "PC Holiday Insider's Report" comes out Nov. 10.

Grocers are applying -- and bettering -- the marketing strategies of their CPG brethren when it comes to private label.

A new emphasis on convenience, bolder flavors, and healthier ingredients is helping to reinvent the frankfurter/other sausage category.

A new emphasis on convenience, bolder flavors, and healthier ingredients is helping to reinvent the frankfurter/other sausage category.

WILMINGTON, Del.-- Safeway Inc., and Schnuck Markets have become the first grocers in the nation to include the "Fruits & Veggies-More Matters" logo from the Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) on a variety of private label frozen and canned fruits and vegetables, the foundation said yesterday.

WILMINGTON, Calif. -- Mexican food manufacturer Juanita's Foods here has appointed Mark and Aaron De La Torre as co-c.e.o.'s. The brothers are sons of George De La Torre Jr., who is chairman of the board, and son of George De La Torre, Sr. who, together with his nephew, Albert Guerrero, co-founded Juanita's Foods in 1946.