Paris, France — AIDP, Inc. and Algaia, S.A. have announced their entrance into a distribution partnership to market Algaia’s alginates, naturally-occurring polysaccharides produced from brown algae, as well as other specialty marine-based solutions to customers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The arrangement was finalized at Vitafoods in Geneva,...
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican and the House’s Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, announced he would not seek re-election in 2018. Instead, Chaffetz will return to the private sector, but he left open the notion of running for public office again in the future. Chaffetz, who was first...
NattoPharma, a researcher and developer of vitamin K2 products based in Metuchen, NJ, has been awarded a grant by the Norwegian Research Council. The grant will be used to fund a 4-year project documenting how the absence or presence of vitamin K2, MK7 effects the metabolism of calcium in the...
New York, NY – A new rule requiring all restaurants with 15 or more nationwide locations and retailers offering prepared foods to post caloric measurements on menu boards went into effect May 22. Additionally, chains will have to provide full nutritional information beyond just calories for standard menu items available...
Landing, NJ - A new study comparing patented BCM-95 (made by DolCas Biotech) with regular curcumin shows that the turmeric extract brand is more effective in easing symptoms of colitis. Shusuke Toden, Ph.D., conducted and published the study in Scientific Reports in April 2017. It detailed the bioactivity of both...
New York, NY — Lidl, a German discount grocery chain, is opening its first stores in the US with prices up to 50 percent cheaper than local competitors. Lidl has 10,000 locations in 27 countries with another German based chain, Aldi being its top competitor. 20 new stores will open...
New York, NY — Today, the Specialty Food Association (SFA) and Food Marketing Institute (FMI) announced their strategic partnership regarding the multibillion dollar specialty food industry. SFA is a 3,600+ member organization dedicated to the support and creation of specialty food. FMI operates in thousands of food retailers and pharmacies...
New York, NY — On Wednesday, Whole Foods Market hired five new directors after having switched to a new company-wide operational plan. According to Reuters, Jana Partners, an activist hedge fund that owns 8.3 percent of the company, is concerned about the lack of grocery experience among these new board...
Imagine you are in your store and the phone rings. The voice on the other end of the line says, “Hello, I’m standing in the store at the probiotics cooler and I don’t know which one to buy.” Of course, you accept without much surprise the fact that people are...
A shareholder resolution urging The Kroger Company to separate the CEO and chair of the Board roles will be presented by Lisa Lindsley, Capital Markets Advisor for SumOfUs, an international corporate watchdog at The Kroger Company’s Annual General Meeting of shareholders on June 22. For decades, Kroger CEOs have also...
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