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DALLAS - Dean Foods' Morningstar Foods division has received aseptic approval from the FDA for beverages produced on the company's Stork filler line in Mt. Crawford, Va. The Stork bottle filling technology extends the shelf life of dairy-based beverages processed on this line to 180 days and allows these products to be stored and shipped at ambient temperatures.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - Time-pressured consumers are making convenience-oriented food and cleaning items some of the fastest-growing consumer packaged goods (CPG) products on the market, according to the most recent ACNielsen Consumer Pre*View survey of consumer attitudes and behaviors.

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. - ACNielsen U.S., an operating unit of ACNielsen, a VNU company, on Monday announced that it has been named Mrs. Smith's Bakeries' new provider of syndicated sales information and consumer insights.

LONDON - Wal-Mart-owned Asda said Friday that it had an "excellent" Christmas with its biggest-ever trading day on Dec. 23.

AUSTIN, Minn. - Hormel Foods Corp. closed Monday on its purchase of Diamond Crystal Brands special food products from Imperial Sugar Co. for $115 million.

Online operations of big grocery chains maneuvered through the dot-com devastation and are now showing positive signs of life. They're finding that the payoffs from Internet retailing reach beyond incremental sales.

A flood of new variations is turning a fluid commodity into a chic beverage, and increased consumer demand has made for a crowded dairy case.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Besieged by Jewish protesters, San Francisco's Rainbow Grocery backed away from a partial boycott of Israeli-made goods Sunday, ending the dispute but leaving many of the demonstrators still seething.