Trading Partners

Business solution provider ECRM and private brand sales and marketing firm Daymon Worldwide will join forces for ECRM’s Private Brand Foods EPP event, scheduled for April 11 through April 14, 2010, in Orlando, Fla.

In the days leading up to the Annual Meat Conference that’s about to get underway this weekend in Orlando, Fla., I’m pleased to present a preview of the hot-off-the-press findings of Progressive Grocer’s 2010 Meat and Seafood Operations Reviews.

In the thick of the meat-and-potato selling season, a new promotional partnership combining Cargill ground beef with Ore-Ida potato products provides grocery retailers with a turnkey comfort food combo deal packed with helpful recipes and discount coupons to entice consumers during late winter and early spring.

Food safety legislation awaits movement in Congress, and consumers have high-profile food product recalls fresh in their minds.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has notified 17 food manufacturers that the labeling for 22 of their food products violates the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.

Jamba Juice Co., the Emeryville, Calif.-based company that owns and franchises 742 Jamba Juice stores across the United States.

Safeway, Inc. yesterday became the first U.S.-based retail grocery chain and manufacturer of private label merchandise to join The Sustainability Consortium.

A recent Yale University study has found that popular characters, celebrities, toys and movie giveaways on food packaging are being employed more than ever to market foods to children at the retail level.