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The Canadian government yesterday unveiled the new organic logo that it says will provide organics suppliers access to more markets and ensure families can find more certified-organic food products in grocery stores.

Fujitsu America yesterday unveiled its RetailReady program, which provides benefits for independent software vendors (ISVs) that validate their applications with retail hardware from Fujitsu.

Food companies have their work cut out for them in regaining consumer trust, a new IBM survey shows. According to the company’s new Food Consumer Survey, less than 20 percent of adult grocery shoppers trust food suppliers to develop and sell food products that are safe and healthy.

Organic fresh foods distributor Albert’s Organics will open its eighth distribution center in September.

The industry isn’t ready for the implementation of the GS1 DataBar on coupons, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) said this week after reviewing results from a survey on the issue conducted earlier this year.

Latino marketing is a growing concern for United States food and business retailers. At the Hispanic Retail 360 Summit, August 9-11, 2009, retail marketing strategies for the U.S. Latino consumer market will be discussed by top retailers, suppliers, and experts in the field.

Golub Corp. yesterday completed the deployment of a real-time company-wide labor-modeling solution to all 119 of its Price Chopper supermarkets.

Years of excess and good times have left a residue of “disquiet, economic and political change,” said Gareth Ackerman, chairman of South African retailer Pick n Pay Holdings, on the first day of the recently completed 53rd World Food Business Summit.