Dole Packaged Foods announces leadership expansion in the U.S.
March 31 , 2021
Dole Packaged Foods has announced the expansion of its U.S. leadership as part of its efforts to increase sustainability and accessibility to nutritious foods.
The company plans to make fruits and vegetables more available to 1 billion people in addition to eradicating fruit loss and the use of fossil-based plastic packaging by 2025 and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2030. The Americas team will continue to drive our transformation under the Dole Promise with a focus on growth through people, planet, and prosperity, said Pier Luigi Sigismondi, president of Dole s Worldwide Packaged Foods division.
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It’s April 1968, and an insurance salesman from Minnesota named Ralph Plaisted is looking down at his feet. He’s standing on an ice floe in the Arctic, with 10,000 feet of frigid water below.
And the ice is getting softer.
Plaisted looks around. Miles of ice-covered ocean surround him in all directions. He’s only days into his attempt to reach the North Pole and things look as grim as they’ve ever been. Plaisted and his team of amateur explorers have endured fuel shortages, howling storms, and forgotten supplies. But now, just a few inches of precarious ice separates them from a watery grave.
The Untold Truth Of Bennigan s Bloomberg/Getty Images
By Matt Meltzer/March 2, 2021 2:27 pm EDT/Updated: March 2, 2021 2:33 pm EDT
Whatever happened to Bennigan s? It s a question that gets perpetually kicked around office happy hours, when people reminisce on the glory of drinking in a plant-filled bar that offered dependably decent food. But the spot that was once an after-work go to and Valentine s date for the unimaginative shocked the world in 2008, when its parent company announced bankruptcy and immediately closed 150 locations. The reasons for this are myriad, but the brand has been slow to recover.
But don t count Bennigan s out yet. Since being purchased by its CEO in 2015 Bennigan s has undergone a massive transformation, slicing its restaurant size, streamlining operations, and changed the places where it does business. And you might even find Bennigan s on the menu the next time you order room service. So come along as we look at Bennigan s journey
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How Ben & Jerry’s showed that creativity can beat powerful Fearless play , argues executive creative director and partner of The Hallway, Simon Lee, is vital in the face of adversity.
February 12, 2021 9:30
by SIMON LEE
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield had every right to be fearful in 1984. At a meeting in a dark corner of an airport restaurant, their distributor told them the Pillsbury Corporation had bought Haagen-Daz and was threatening to stop selling him Haagen-Daz if he continued to sell Ben & Jerry’s. Haagen-Daz was the distributor’s main money maker, so he had no choice but to cut off Ben & Jerry’s core distribution pipeline.