Nonfoods

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market will receive a Regional Excellence award from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), The WILD Foundation and the host sponsor Animal Planet for its 2001 "Fish for Our Future" educational awareness campaign.

WASHINGTON - Sixteen manufacturers and retailers joined the Grocery Manufacturers of America and the Food Marketing Institute in urging the CPG industry to adopt the UCCnet data registry as the North America standard for electronic data sharing.

SILVER SPRING, Md. - Doctors abandon their prescription pads for Internet scripts at Giant Food and Pharmacy.

NEW YORK - Kroger Co. today said it reaffirmed its fiscal 2002 forecast of 10 percent to 12 percent earnings per share growth, helped by strong sales of high-margin private label food and household items, Reuters reports.

OAKBROOK, Ill. - Atlantic Baking Group Inc. (ABG) today announced two pending acquisitions that will propel the company toward its goal of becoming the industry-leading supplier of private label cookies and crackers.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Penn Traffic Company today announced that adjusted net income was $7.1 million or $0.35 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002 compared to $5.3 million or $0.26 per share in the prior year.

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LOS ANGELES - The produce industry is showing its concern for regulations that might be considered by Congress as part of food security legislation, the Los Angeles Times reports.