Retail & FoodService

The number of consumers using private label food and beverage products continues to rise, but U.S. consumers are losing their enthusiasm for these value-oriented options, according to a recently released report by The NPD Group, a leading market research company. NPD’s food and beverage market research report finds that private label’s share of household servings was 18 percent in 2000 and reached 27 percent in 2011. In contrast to steadily increasing usage, the satisfaction with private label foods meeting consumers’ needs has dipped from 32 percent in 2009 to 24 percent in 2012.
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Raley's unionized workforce Tuesday began preparing for a possible strike against the West Sacramento supermarket chain. The United Food and Commercial Workers announced early Tuesday that Raley's refused to extend its contracts and was preparing to give workers its "last, best and final offer."

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After decades of transforming the food processing industry with 3M™ Petrifilm™ Plates, 3M is once again revolutionizing the industry – this time in the area of pathogen detection. 3M Food Safety has introduced the 3M™ Molecular Detection System: a fast, accurate and easy-to-use method of detecting dangerous pathogens, like Salmonella, E. coli O157 and Listeria, that can shut down businesses and threaten public health. …

Enhancing ballpark fare – especially with locally sourced ingredients – continues to be a big part of Sportservice’s mission. So is improving the overall fan experience. Sportservice spent the offseason bolstering the food and retail variety at each of the 10 ballparks in which it operates. …

Intelleflex®, a leading provider of on-demand data visibility solutions, has announced a strategic solution partnership with DeltaTRAK®Inc., a leading innovator of cold chain management solutions. By partnering with Intelleflex, DeltaTRAK will extend its family of cold chain solutions for the food, pharmaceutical and processing industries by offering the Intelleflex XC3 Technology™-based tags and readers under the DeltaTRAK brand. …