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  • Food Pyramid Still Has Impact, Even With Poor Marketing

    NEW YORK - While the USDA dropped the ball when it came to communicating the value of the Food Pyramid to consumers, it seems that the supermarket industry picked it up and ran, and as a result people are eating healthier, according to the latest alert from VNU's Executive Perspective. Now a new initiative from the USDA plans to take the message even further.

  • Food Pyramid Still Has Impact, Even With Poor Marketing

    NEW YORK - While the USDA dropped the ball when it came to communicating the value of the Food Pyramid to consumers, it seems that the supermarket industry picked it up and ran, and as a result people are eating healthier, according to the latest alert from VNU's Executive Perspective. Now a new initiative from the USDA plans to take the message even further.

  • Wal-Mart Calls on Suppliers to Reduce Packaging, Conserve Natural Resources

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said on Friday it plans to measure its 60,000 worldwide suppliers on their ability to develop packaging and conserve natural resources. This initiative, scheduled to begin in 2008, is projected to reduce overall packaging by five percent.

  • FMI, GMA Gearing Up for New MyPyramid Campaign

    WASHINGTON - Two of the supermarket industry's leading trade groups, the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), are taking steps to help retailers promote the U.S. Department of Agriculture's MyPyramid initiative via an in-store promotional campaign. The campaign, to be called "Take a Peak," is slated to roll out at more than 3,500 food stores starting in the first quarter of 2007.

  • Wal-Mart Calls on Suppliers to Reduce Packaging, Conserve Natural Resources

    BENTONVILLE, Ark. - Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. said on Friday it plans to measure its 60,000 worldwide suppliers on their ability to develop packaging and conserve natural resources. This initiative, scheduled to begin in 2008, is projected to reduce overall packaging by five percent.

  • Food Pyramid Still Has Impact, Even With Poor Marketing

    NEW YORK - While the USDA dropped the ball when it came to communicating the value of the Food Pyramid to consumers, it seems that the supermarket industry picked it up and ran, and as a result people are eating healthier, according to the latest alert from VNU's Executive Perspective. Now a new initiative from the USDA plans to take the message even further.

  • Produce Execs Converge at Crosset Co. Seminar, Food Show

    INDEPENDENCE, Ky. - More than 400 produce retail professionals were on hand at an annual seminar and food show recently hosted by The Crosset Co. based here.

  • Produce Execs Converge at Crosset Co. Seminar, Food Show

    INDEPENDENCE, Ky. - More than 400 produce retail professionals were on hand at an annual seminar and food show recently hosted by The Crosset Co. based here.
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