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  • Hurricane Helpers: Industry Players Step up to Aid in Relief Efforts

    STAFF REPORT - Aid from every corner of the food industry has been pouting in to areas of Florida stricken by Hurricane Charley.
  • Penn Traffic Files Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Penn Traffic Co. says it has filed its plan of reorganization with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to emerge from Chapter 11 this fall with significantly reduced debt and with its core business intact, including 109 company-operated stores, its wholesale/franchise business, and the Penny Curtiss bakery.
  • GMA Supports Use of TDLinx Channel Definitions Throughout CPG Industry

    WILTON, Conn. and WASHINGTON - The Grocery Manufacturers of America (GMA), the trade group representing food, beverage, and consumer product companies, on Friday urged its members to use the trade channel definitions created and provided by TDLinx in their efforts to go to market.
  • Industry Groups Weight in on Food Pyramid Revisions

    WASHINGTON - Representatives from the food industry were on hand here late last week to offer their views on how the food pyramid might be improved -- or, at the least, better communicated to consumers -- as the Aug. 27 deadline nears for written comments on the issue.
  • Gov't Report: U.S. Shrimp Industry Needs to Downsize, Restructure

    WASHINGTON - The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) late last week released an assessment of the struggling domestic shrimping industry that calls for radical restructuring, rather than trade protection or subsidies.
  • 'Choking Hazard' Labeling Bill Proposed in New York

    NEW YORK ¿ Legislation has been proposed in New York state that would require a wide variety of grocery products be labeled as choking hazards to children under 4. The state bill, modeled on proposed national legislation that has been bandied about recently, would apply to nuts, hard candy, gum, peanut butter, and popcorn.
  • Trader Joe's No Longer Using Weyerhaeuser Bags

    MONROVIA, Calif. - Trader Joe's, based here, has decided to stop buying grocery bags from Federal Way, Wash.-based Weyerhaeuser, a company that the environmental advocacy group Rainforest Action Network (RAN) calls "the No. 1 destroyer of old-growth forests in North America."
  • Meijer Receives Top Honors For Apple Merchandising

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- It could have been the 50,528,081 pounds of apples sold a year, or the fact that Meijer carries more than 23 varieties. Or it could be because Meijer generally has the freshest produce on the market. Any way you slice it, Meijer is a leader in apple sales and merchandising, and was accordingly given top honors as the 2004 Apple Merchandiser of the Year yesterday by the U.S. apple industry.
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