Retail & FoodService
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DoorDash, the local commerce platform, is excited to announce service with Wakefern Food Corp., the nation’s largest retailer-owned cooperative. The cooperative members own and operate 365 supermarkets under the ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace, The Fresh Grocer, Fairway Market, Gourmet Garage, and Dearborn Market banners. Customers can now order groceries and daily essentials on DoorDash from these retail locations. …
Produce
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Ocean Mist Farms hired a new Chief Financial Officer, Tim Wolfli of Petaluma, CA. With over two decades of experience in fresh produce, including agriculture, aquaculture and foodservice, Tim brings with him a well-rounded set of skills and experience to help drive the now century-old and ever-evolving company into the future. …
Deli
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The Specialty Food Association (SFA) has announced that Spain will be the partner country sponsor for the 2024 Summer Fancy Food Show. The specialty food industry’s premier product discovery event, the Summer Fancy Food Show features thousands of specialty foods and beverages from around the world. …
Floral
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Cavano’s Perennials has joined American Beauties Native Plants® as a licensed grower, providing garden-worthy native plants that promise to “make your garden come alive”. Cavano’s is a thriving wholesale nursery in Kingsville, Maryland, who has always provided quality plants to garden centers, landscape contractors, re-wholesalers, and municipalities through the eastern United States. …
Bakery
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Empire Bakery Equipment guides you through all of the reasons it may be time to upgrade. Providing new equipment will help increase production, ensure the highest-quality and save money on labor costs. …
Seafood
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Unlike some other fish farm proposals that have come to Maine in recent years and gotten bogged down by legal and other challenges, the Bucksport project was unique in that it faced minimal opposition along the way. …
Dairy
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IDFA Applauds USDA Final School Meal Rule for Maintaining Dairy Options, Preserving Flavored Milk for All Grades
International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) Dairy April 24, 2024
The updated rule preserves the ability for schools across the country to serve nutritious flavored milk to students in all grades as long as the product meets IDFA’s Healthy School Milk Commitment guidelines, which ensures an 8-ounce half-pint of non-fat or low-fat flavored milk contains no more than 10 grams of added sugar per serving. IDFA established the Commitment in early 2023 with 37 school milk processors. …
Meat & Poultry
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Over the duration of the project, Impossible will invest in growing and harvesting crops such as soybeans, sunflowers and coconut trees, all of which represent key ingredients in Impossible’s beef, chicken and pork products. Impossible will share the daily goings-on of Impossible Ranch with the brand’s social media community, offering a visual and wholesome connection between the simplicity of these ingredients and the farm-based roots of making Impossible meat from plants. …