food companies

But one online grocer is trying to change the reality of food deserts by bringing healthy food to these areas, with the help of technology. Thrive Market is a site that sells a carefully curated collection of relatively healthy foods, including chicken, peanut butter, and pasta. Most of the products are deliberately ...

"It really makes people think a little bit harder about, 'I may have one dollar in my pocket. I don't know that a dollar is gonna make a big difference, but suddenly, when it's two dollars, then that becomes 16 meals," said Eileen Bradshaw with the food bank. Organizers said they also put food bags together in ...

Acrylamide is the product of a chemical reaction that happens between certain sugars and the amino acid asparagine when the food is heated. The resulting levels of the compound vary based on how food is prepared. Frying, roasting, broiling and baking certain foods are more likely to create acrylamide, ...

Seneca Foods Corporation (NASDAQ:SENE.A) generated ... Return on Equity (ROE) weighs Seneca Foods's profit against the level of its shareholders' equity. ... But this can be misleading as each company has different costs of equity and also varying debt levels, which could artificially push up ROE whilst ...

The research covers the current market size of the Global Vanilla Bean market and its growth rates based on 5 year history data along with company profile of key players/manufacturers such as Tharakan and Company, Vanilla Food Company, Amadeus, Boston Vanilla Bean Company, Agro Products ...

INDEPENDENCE, VA. — Greg Jaeger has been named director of sales at Landcrafted Food, producer of 100% grass-fed beef meat snacks. In his new role, Mr. Jaeger will be tasked with growing distribution, expanding the company's retail network beyond the mid-Atlantic and leading new product ...

Not only did she become the wealthiest woman in America overnight, she assumed control of a major food corporation, Postum Cereal Company, and forever changed the way Americans eat. “I'm not the richest woman in the world,” Post famously said. “There are others better off than I am. The only ...

For snack brand Nothin' But, the hope is to embrace the fun side of functional food. Jeff Dworzanski, director of product innovation at Nothin' But, told NOSH that the rebrand is the biggest change for the granola cookie bites and snack bars company since being acquired by natural frozen food maker Dr.

This morning, Senator Udall issued a survey asking top restaurant chains, food service companies, and grocery stores about chlorpyrifos use on the fruits and vegetables on their menus, in their cafeterias, and in their aisles, and about company policies that would protect their customers and farmworkers ...

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg organized a boycott campaign against companies that run ads on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show. Ingraham posted a tweet on Wednesday mocking Hogg for "whining" about not being accepted into colleges he applied to. Pet-food brand Nutrish became the first ...

Gottlieb applauded food companies for developing products that fulfill consumers' demands for healthier foods and cleaner labels. However, he said the FDA can spark even more innovation if it allows manufacturers to tout what makes their products better. The FDA wants input on the word "healthy," ...

CUNY does not provide its own food services, but instead relies on nonprofit organizations at each campus, typically known as auxiliary services corporations, which are affiliated with, but legally separate from, the university. The auxiliary services corporations coordinate and hire the food vendors, whose ...

A Minnesota food company is recalling 48 tons of canned chicken products that may be contaminated with hard plastic. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Wednesday that Tony Downs Food Co. of Madelia issued the recall. The canned chunk chicken breast items ...

A Portland-based restaurant delivery service has received a $4,000 development grant from a national trade group. 2DineIn.com, owned by Mike Bolduc, organizes food delivery from more than 70 restaurants in Portland, South Portland and Scarborough. The growth grant is from the National Association ...

Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL) is one of the nation's top processed foods companies. And it is not only a dividend aristocrat (a company that has raised its dividend for more than 25 years) but a dividend king (a company that has raised its dividend for 50 years or longer). That is a very elite group of ...

A southern Minnesota food manufacturer is recalling more than 96,000 pounds of canned chicken sold at Sam's Club locations nationwide after hard plastic was found in some of its containers, federal food safety inspectors announced Wednesday. Mankato-based Tony Downs Food Co. processes and ...

North Carolina-based MG Foods Inc. is considering expanding into Melbourne, creating 95 jobs over the next three years, most of them in production. The food production, packaging and distribution company also proposes spending a total of $2.3 million to renovate a more than 30,000-square-foot ...

It's been a difficult couple of years for Hormel Foods Corp (NYSE:HRL). Hormel stock had been an impressive multi-year outperformer until it touched $44 back in early 2016. Since then, however, HRL stock has lost about a quarter of its value. To be fair, Hormel isn't alone in struggling. Over the last two ...

A spokesman for the Food Standards Agency said: “Symptoms caused by this organism can be similar to flu and include high temperature, muscle ache or pain, chills, feeling or being sick and diarrhoea. “However, in rare cases, the infection can be more severe, causing serious complications, such as ...

Less than three years after Lower Sproul Plaza reopened in fall 2015, Chartwells, the company contracted to provide the plaza with food and drink businesses, backed out of its 10-year lease. The ASUC and ASUC Student Union imagined the new Lower Sproul Plaza as a hub of student life — with study ...

Dean Foods Company ( DF ) will begin trading ex-dividend on March 16, 2018. A cash dividend payment of $0.09 ... DF is a part of the Consumer Non-Durables sector, which includes companies such as The Kraft Heinz Company ( KHC ) and Mondelez International, Inc. ( MDLZ ). DF's current earnings per ...

Frustrated by what they see as a continued watering down of the standards that define what foods may be labeled “organic,” Patagonia Provisions—the food business offshoot of the outdoor apparel company—organic body care and food products company Dr. Bronner's, and the research-based Rodale ...

As the founder of Rawcells, a purpose-driven company that serves herbal and plant-based treats, James is committed to making the world a more conscious and wellness-oriented place, one dessert at a time. As a child, Natasha found herself indulging in the junk food offerings available to her, ...

After the breakup: US Foods CEO Pietro Satriano on how the company has moved on from failed Sysco merger ... Likewise, in the not-so-distant-past, the second-largest food service distributor in the country wasn't selling cake made with fair trade chocolate and bananas certified by the Rainforest Alliance.

Most of the customers that purchase Nijssen's database are big food companies, universities, and governmental programs. But lately, a new kind of investor is paying the requisite 1,200 Euros to access his database: celebrity chefs. Today, two-time "Chopped" winner James Briscione and his wife Brooke ...

McDonald's is among companies planning to signpost foods using PHE's approach to help individuals pick products with the desired calorie content. ... Public health officials are calling on food sellers and manufacturers to cut calories in their products by 20% by 2024, with big businesses that fail to make ...

Health authorities have linked a South African food company's bologna to a world-historically bad listeria outbreak that's devastated the region and killed hundreds. The company, Tiger Brands, is the continent's largest packaged-foods manufacturer, and its products run the gamut from oatmeal and energy ...

Yahoo Finance previously reported that there has been some friction between the Amazon and Whole Foods as the two companies work to integrate. At issue has been the potential expansion of consumer brands Whole Foods could offer. There's no indication that Greeley's departure was related to this.

A succession of high-profile, global companies have terminated their memberships with the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA)—the self-professed ... with Dean Foods, Mars, Tyson Foods, Unilever, the Hershey Company, Cargill, the Kraft Heinz Company, and DowDuPont all opting to leave, as well.

US Foods Holding Corp. (USFD) is an interesting player in the Services space, with a focus on Food Wholesale. The stock has been active on the tape, currently trading at $33.60, up from yesterday's close by 0.63%. Given the stock's recent action, it seemed like a good time to take a closer look at the ...

The annual report detailed how food companies, such as General Mills, Inc., Grupo Bimbo S.A.B. de C.V., Nestle S.A. and more, are making changes to products and workplaces to ... For “Commitment A: Make company policies public on nutrition and product formulation,” 61% of participants had complied.

ROI deals with the invested cash in the company and the return the investor realize on that money based on the net profit of the business. Investors who are keeping close eye on the stock of Dean Foods Company (NYSE:DF) established that the company was able to keep return on investment at 0.21 in the ...

Investors who are keeping close eye on the stock of US Foods Holding Corp. (NYSE:USFD) established that the company was able to keep return on investment at 3.87 in the trailing twelve month while Reuters data showed that industry's average stands at 6.09 and sector's optimum level is 63.55. Analysts ...

“You've eaten Compass food, you just didn't know it was Compass,” says the company's North America CEO, Gary Green. ... meat, and supplemented its vegetarian offerings through deals with plant-based food companies including Impossible Foods, known for its meatless (yet “bloody”) Impossible Burger, ...

It feels like America needs a reminder that fast-food companies are, by and large, terrible. The food is ... A former McDonald's CEO blamed Fight for 15 when the company announced that it would start installing touchscreens, which also would reduce the need for actual human employees. (Meanwhile, one ...

Carnivore Meat Co. of Green Bay, WI, and TruPet LLC of Milford, OH, are recalling dog food and dog treats because of possible Salmonella contamination. Both of the recalls were triggered by the Michigan Department of Agriculture's collection of retail samples from a single batch of each product, ...

While this is not a new phenomenon, big companies appear to have learned from the past. Back in 2000, Kellogg (K) acquired Kashi, which was a hot health food upstart that generated $25 million in annual sales. After allowing the company to act autonomously in its southern California location for eight ...

Shares of Dean Foods Company (NYSE:DF) were down 13.2% as of 2:15 p.m. EST Monday after the dairy products leader announced disappointing fourth-quarter 2017 results. Dean Foods' revenue declined 4.1% year over year to $1.935 billion, and translated to adjusted income from continuing ...

Several major dog food brands owned by J.M. Smucker have been recalled by the FDA after small amounts of a euthanasia drug were discovered inside. And if the story sounds familiar, that's because a completely different company, Against the Grain Pet Food, issued an identical recall last week.

General Mills is moving into the pet food business with a deal to buy Blue Buffalo Pet Products for roughly $8 billion in cash. ... General Mill's plans to acquire Blue Buffalo come as all traditional food companies are on alert about a prowling 3G Capital, the backer of Kraft-Heinz, known for its ferocious ...