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Featured Article
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Food Product Traceability: New Challenges, New Solutions
By David Miller, President, Operations Technologies
Product traceability has always been a contentious issue in the food and beverage industry, often pitting manufacturers, packagers, and distributors against retailers, customers, and government agencies. However, recent supply
chain wide "meltdowns" have all sides of the issue beginning to agree
on the need for better controls.
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Top News Stories
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Food Lion LLC Receives Distinguished Partner Award From EPA
Food Lion LLC received the Distinguished Partner Award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday, August 18 during an awards ceremony at the Food Marketing Institute's Sustainability Summit in San Francisco.
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GMA To Launch "Upstream Initiative" During Pack Expo Las Vegas
PMMI and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) recently announced that GMA will launch its new upstream initiative, "GMA Upstream," during this year's PACK EXPO event in Las Vegas.
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Farmers Insurance And Arkansas Grocers & Retail Merchants Association Form Partnership
Farmers Insurance Group of Companies has teamed up with The Arkansas Grocers & Retail Merchants Association and revised their 10-year relationship to strengthen its member's benefits.
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China Marine Food Group Signs New Distributor In Chengdu And Chongqing
China Marine Food Group Ltd. has announced the Company has secured a new distributor in its targeted growth market, the Sichuan Area.
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IRI Report Provides In-Depth Private Label Insights And Potential Growth Areas For Manufacturers And Retailers
Once seen as knock-offs of "name brands," private label products have become increasingly more accepted by consumers as quality has increased and retailers have expanded their offerings of private label goods.
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Albertsons Recognized As First Major Grocery Retailer To Earn LEED Certification On A Remodel
Albertsons' remodeled La Habra, California, store has been awarded LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver established by the by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute making it the first major retail grocery store to receive such recognition for an interior remodel.
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PacificHealth Laboratories Launches ForzeGPS In The Vitamin Shoppe Nationwide
PacificHealth Laboratories, Inc. is pleased to announce that The Vitamin Shoppe, a specialty retailer and direct marketer of nutritional products, has begun selling both the bars and the ready to drink formats of ForzeGPS in all of its 420 locations nationwide.
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Publix's Natural And Organic Shelf Tags Make Shopping Easier
In an effort to highlight natural, organic and earth-friendly products, Publix uses a unique shelf tag program. The tags are tan-colored and some feature an information icon making product selection easier.
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RollStream Secures Leadership Position In Retail Grocery Industry With Three New Customers
RollStream Inc. recently announced that Ahold USA, operator of the Stop & Shop, Giant, Martins, and Peapod supermarket brands, joined other industry leaders in using RollStream to communicate and collaborate with its entire community of direct food and general merchandising suppliers.
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Featured Download
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Case Study: Reflexis Helps Food Lion Boost Efficiency And Improve Customer Service
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By Reflexis Systems, Inc.
Food Lion is one of the largest supermarket chains in the United States, operating about 1,300 stores, either directly or through affiliated entities, under the names of Food Lion, Bloom, Bottom Dollar, Harveys, and Reid's. To further improve customer service and increase the efficiency of its store-level
operations, Food Lion implemented Reflexis Task Manager, the task management application from Reflexis, in the fall of 2006. The solution was implemented enterprise-wide in just 17 weeks, which included integrating the Web-based Reflexis solution with Food Lion's existing portfolio of retail systems.
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