Walmart is collaborating with PHA and Higher Ground Productions
US: How online natural retailer Thrive Market is going climate-positive
Thrive Market has always been an eco-conscious enterprise, offering foods made of real ingredients that are safe for the environment, delicious and fairly priced. Already, the e-retailer has committed to a no-air-shipping policy and utilizing all-recyclable shipping materials; it also recently earned B Corp certification. But Thrive Market isn t stopping there: The company recently announced a number of new initiatives that will further shrink its environmental footprint. According to chief marketing officer Jeremiah McElwee, Thrive Market has set a goal to be zero-waste certified in 2022, plastic neutral by 2023 and completely carbon negative by 2025.
Carrefour International Partnership and Nordic Coops: New commercial Partnership
Saudi grocer Othaim sales dip a year on from panic buying supermarket sweep
Saudi supermarket chain Abdullah Al Othaim Markets reported a 42% drop in first quarter profit, a year on from the early panic-buying days of the pandemic. Net profit fell to SR57.7mln ($15.4mln) for the first 3 months of the year from almost SR100mln a year earlier, the company said in a Tadawul filing. Sales fell 11.9% over the same period to about SR2.1bln.
Carrefour International Partnership signing a new partnership with Nordic Coops in northern Europe
Carrefour International Partnership and Nordic Coops are pleased to announce a new commercial Partnership which will focus on Private Labels. This Partnership will allow Nordic Coops to purchase Carrefour food and non food private labels, including French, Italian and Spanish food private labels, as well as developing common synergies for private label manufacturing. The g
ASHEVILLE - As the COVID-19 pandemic bore down, MANNA FoodBank CEO Hannah Randall saw firsthand a sharp rise in food insecurity, and it hasn t relented.
The nonprofit and its partner agencies last March served 128,690 people in Western North Carolina, a 93% jump from February to the onset of the pandemic. For us, throughout this pandemic, we just pulled out all the stops all the time, looking for every resource we could find to make sure people had a meal at home, she said.
Now, more than a year later, the numbers have shown no signs of declining. Complicating the work to get needed food assistance to hundreds of thousands of regional clients is a supply chain that seems reluctant to stabilize.
Todd Johnson, OSU Agricultural Communications Services
A good cut of steak is paramount to a pleasurable eating experience. Prime? Choice? Select? What do they mean and how can you choose the best steak for your next cookout?
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Grocery meat counters are filled with beef steaks labeled Choice, and while many consumers rightfully associate the label as a good choice for grilling or the stovetop, they might not be familiar with industry quality standards behind the designation.
A beef steak’s tenderness, juiciness and flavor all affect its palatability, or the degree to which food and fluids are deemed desirable and satisfying to a person’s palate, said Earl Ward, Oklahoma State University Extension area livestock specialist for northeastern Oklahoma.