Boulder, CO—Following reports that multiple stores would be closing, Lucky’s Market issued a statement announcing that it began closing certain locations on Wednesday, January, 22, 2020, as part of its restructuring efforts. After exploring multiple alternatives, the announcement says, the company made the decision to close various stores and to...
Mustard Seed Market announced the January 24, 2020, departure of Jon Fiume, COO, and the welcoming of Gabe Nabors as new CEO. “I am extremely grateful for my tenure at Mustard Seed,” Fiume said in a release. “It has been an incredible personal growth experience and nothing has been more...
Over half of all products sold on Amazon’s website are from third-party sellers that either warehouse the products with Amazon, or ship them directly to customers themselves. In round numbers, there are three million active third-party sellers on Amazon’s site, over one million of these new in 2019, representing over...
Edgewood, NY—A contract manufacturer doing business as ABH Nature's Products, Inc., ABH Pharama, Inc., and Stocknutra.com, Inc. ("ABH") announced a nationwide recall of all lots of its dietary supplement products pursuant to a Consent Decree entered by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The massive...
Spring, TX—Trust Transparency Center (TTC) announced the formation of the Ingredient Transparency Center (ITC). This new platform is described in a press release as the next evolution of TTC's single ingredient category stewardship and incubator program. Currently, TTC oversees the Global Prebiotic Association (GPA), the CoQ10 Association and the Global Curcumin Association (GCA), and...
Chicago, IL—Leaders of the American Nutrition Association (ANA), a newly established nonprofit professional association for the science and practice of personalized nutrition, announced that they have published a proposed definition of Personalized Nutrition. The goal: to promote and scale efforts in research, education, clinical practice, and policy. A press release from the...
Finland, MN—Following a lawsuit, Ben & Jerry’s will no longer claim on product packaging that its ice cream comes from “happy cows,” according to a press release form Organic Consumers Association (OCA). OCA sued Ben & Jerry’s in July 2018 for the “deceptive labeling, marketing, and sale of its ice...
Silver Spring, MD—On January 15, 2020, the U.S. and China signed an agreement on a Phase One trade deal that, according to a fact sheet from the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), requires structural reforms and other changes to China’s economic and trade regime in the areas...
Washington, D.C.—Processed foods are highly correlated with obesity, according to research from George Washington University (GW). GW researcher Leigh A. Frame, Ph.D., MHS, said in a press release: “When comparing the U.S. diet to the diet of those who live in ‘blue zones’—areas with populations living to age 100 without...
Boulder, CO—Lucky’s Market, the low-priced natural and organics products chain, reportedly will be closing the majority of its stores. This latest news comes after Kroger's announcement in December that it would divest its interest in Lucky's. Lucky’s Market was founded in Boulder in 2003 by Trish and Bo Sharon and...
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