Food

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Specialty food retailer The Fresh Market is relocating its Ponte Vedra, Fla. store to Corridors at Ponte Vedra, a shopping center at the intersection of Tournament Players Boulevard and A1A North in the upscale coastal community outside of Jacksonville, Fla. The company plans to open the new store by the middle of 2007.

NEW YORK - The outbreak linked to prepackaged fresh spinach sickened 192 people in 26 states and killed at least three, and has likely damaged consumer confidence in the safety of prepackaged produce. To help supermarket operators regain some of this confidence, VNU's Executive Perspective has prepared a list of recommendations for retailers' communications with their shoppers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Cryovac Division of Sealed Air Corp. and its president, Stuart Prosser, were honored as the 2006 Supplier of the Year at the annual meeting of the with the American Meat Institute based here.

BALTIMORE, Md. - A "social movement" around food is developing in the United States, as consumers who feel helpless about other issues see they can excess control over what they eat, said nutrition professor and author Marion Nestle during a keynote address last week at the Natural Products Expo East Show here.

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- The Food Institute (FI) here has added ex-GMDC exec Roy White to its staff in the position of v.p., sales, and put him in charge of expanding its membership and programming usage.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Cryovac Division of Sealed Air Corp. and its president, Stuart Prosser, were honored as the 2006 Supplier of the Year at the annual meeting of the with the American Meat Institute based here.

SAN FRANCISCO - Community-based independent Mollie Stone's Markets last week removed all tobacco products from the shelves of its eight Bay Area supermarkets.

MATTHEWS, N.C. - Harris Teeter here is bringing together shoppers and suppliers in its perimeter departments to help raise money for the fight against breast cancer during Breast Cancer Awareness Month.