INFRA has announced Danelle Rydel as its new VP, Member Success. Rydel will be responsible for growth in membership, growth at member stores, and growth in new opportunities for the association. She has been with INFRA since 2016 and has assumed a variety of roles, most recently as Director of...
Kemin Industries, Inc., acquired Proteus Industries, Inc. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Proteus is a food technology and ingredient company based in Gloucester, MA. Kemin is a global ingredient manufacturer based in Des Moines, IA. The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) acquired VitaminHaus Pty Ltd. The terms...
Philadelphia, PA—The WholeFoods team walked the Harvest Festival floor yesterday, finding a sense of cheer. People were excited to be at a show, excited to reconnect and chat, and extremely excited to sample—One Village Coffee, for instance, ran out of samples altogether. The major trend this year: plant-based. The first...
East Palo Alto, CA—Vori, a digital B2B ordering platform that works to optimize the grocery supply chain, announced a partnership with KeHE Distributors. Select grocers in California will participate in the new pilot project, which enables next-generation inventory replenishment by giving the grocers another point of access to KeHE’s inventory, via...
Silver Spring, MD—FDA has released a consumer update listing five things the agency wants consumers to know about Delta-8 THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), a psychoactive substance found in both marijuana and hemp. The five things on FDA's list include: Delta-8 THC products have not been evaluated or approved by FDA for safe...
Washington, D.C.—Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to permit expenditures from health savings accounts (HSAs), flexible spending arrangements (FSAs), and health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) to be used for dietary supplements. H.R. 5214, introduced by Representatives John Curtis (R-UT) and Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), would amend the Internal...
I have a part-time job in retail, and we have a problem: Customers come in, spend 20 minutes getting our expert advice, and then they get on their phones—sometimes to double-check us, sometimes to see if they can get a product cheaper elsewhere. And then, instead of purchasing from our...
Cutting 20% of sugar from packaged foods and 40% from beverages could prevent 2.48 million cardiovascular disease events, 490,000 cardiovascular deaths, and 750,000 diabetes cases in the U.S. over the lifetime of the adult population, according to a micro-simulation study published in Circulation. A team of researchers from Massachusetts General...
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI) announced that J. Alexander (Sandy) Miller Douglas is the new Chief Executive Officer and will serve as a member of its Board of Directors. Douglas most recently served as CEO of Staples, Inc., and prior to that was President of Coca-Cola North America, overseeing the...
A study published in Nature Food has ranked foods by their dietary and environmental impact, looking to offer specific, actionable recommendations to help motivate people to change their behavior, according to a press release. Researchers from the University of Michigan evaluated more than 5,800 foods, ranking them by their nutritional...
