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  • Ring Bros. Marketplace, Breakaway Gas Grill for Good

    Community-based independent Ring Bros. Marketplace in South Dennis, Mass., and barbecue grill and accessory supplier Breakaway Gas, also based in South Dennis, raised over $700 for Ezra H. Baker Elementary School during a fundraiser held in late August.

  • Affluent Shoppers Will Pay More for Safe, Healthy Food: Survey

    A new national survey of more affluent consumers from strategic marketing communications firm Context Marketing, “Beyond Organic -- How Evolving Consumer Concerns Influence Food Purchases,” has found that most respondents are highly concerned about the safety of the food they buy and would pay more for food they believe to be safer or healthier.

  • Smart Choices Postpones Activities as its Own Choices Come Into Question

    While controversy swirls as to the laxity of its criteria, the Smart Choices Program, which was launched in August by a coalition of major consumer packaged goods manufacturers amid much fanfare, said last week that it would voluntarily postpone active operations and not encourage broader use of its logo by member companies.

  • Ray’s Food Place, Organic Valley Offers EcoUnit Credits to Shoppers

    C&K Market’s Ray’s Food Place Stores and organic foods supplier Organic Valley have teamed up to create a new shopper rewards program that gives customers EcoUnit credits that can be redeemed to support local stewardship projects like tree planting, river restoration, removal of invasive species and watershed cleanup.

  • Natural Products Association Names Executive Director and CEO

    The Natural Products Association (NPA), the oldest and largest trade association for the natural products industry, has appointed John F. Gay its executive director and CEO.

  • Industry Leaders Voice Support for Food Safety Reforms During Hearing

    A representative from Publix Super Markets testifying on behalf of the Food Marketing Institute, along with the head of the United Fresh Produce Association (United Fresh), told a Senate Committee Thursday that high-profile food safety outbreaks revealed weaknesses in the existing food safety system and highlighted the need to update the laws and culture necessary to adequately protect the U.S. food supply.

  • Rosauers CEO Named Wash. Food Industry’s Retailer of Year

    Jeff Philipps, president and CEO of Spokane, Wash.-based Rosauers Supermarket, Inc., has received the 2009 Retailer of the Year Award from the Washington Food Industry (WFI) for his commitment to the prosperity, ethics and image of the independent grocery industry.

  • Snyder’s of Hanover to Acquire Utz

    Snyder’s of Hanover will purchase Utz Quality Foods, Inc., pending clearance from the Federal Trade Commission, Snyder’s president and CEO Carl E. Lee Jr. said yesterday. The terms of the deal were not disclosed
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