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  • Americans’ Eating Habits Remain the Same Despite Rising Concerns in Obesity

    Americans’ Eating Habits Remain the Same Despite Rising Concerns in Obesity

    Although a majority of Americans are becoming concerned with their weight and are making changes in the food that they eat, a huge number are also becoming unconcerned about the quantity of food they take in. In fact, this number is even greater compared to a few years back. The numbers are so contradictory that…

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  • Cott Corporation

    Cott Corporation

    Cott Corporation is one of the world’s largest supplier of private label non-alcoholic beverages. Aside from its private label products, the company also has a growing product line of beverages sold under its own brands. Cott Corporation has its main headquarters in Mississuaga, Ontario, Canada. History Cott started out as a Canadian company in Quebec…

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  • Hormel Foods Corporation

    Hormel Foods Corporation

    Hormel Foods Corporation is a worldwide leader in the processed food industry and is best known as the company that produces SPAM. The company has its headquarters in Austin, Minnesota. History The company’s history began when George Hormel founded Geo. A. Hormel & Company in 1891. After establishing his company, Hormel then built its first…

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  • Product Recall for Goodness Gardens’ Chives

    Product Recall for Goodness Gardens’ Chives

    Goodness Gardens Inc. announced a recall for one lot of its chives products because of a possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The affected chives have a lot number of 0201111. The possible contamination was discovered after a routine sampling was done on the lot. The sampled products tested positive for the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. Although…

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  • Gilt Groupe Launches Gilt Taste for High-End Grocery Shopping

    Gilt Groupe Launches Gilt Taste for High-End Grocery Shopping

    Gilt Groupe, a New York-based business for high-end and expensive items, has launched its own grocery service division and named it Gilt Taste. Gilt Taste, like its parent company, offers its products on its own website and delivers the items to the buyer’s location. What makes this grocery service unique and incomparable is that it…

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  • Faribault Foods, Inc.

    Faribault Foods, Inc.

    Faribault Foods, Inc. is an American company engaged in the manufacture of canned beans, pasta, soups, vegetables, organic food items and aseptically packaged juice items. The company is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. History Faribault Foods was founded in 1888 by local investors in Faribault, Minnesota.  The company’s original name was Northwestern Canning Company and became…

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  • A Product Launch for Frank’s RedHot Ready-to-Serve Appetizers

    A Product Launch for Frank’s RedHot Ready-to-Serve Appetizers

    Reckitt Benckiser, in partnership with Completely Fresh Foods, has launched a new line of frozen, fully-cooked shrimp, chicken wings and appetizers under the Frank’s RedHot brand. Following the success of Frank’s RedHot sauces, which was ranked as the number one brand of hot sauce in America for 52 weeks, RB launched the frozen, ready-to-eat product…

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  • Coupon 101 With Coupon Carmen

    Coupon 101 With Coupon Carmen

    In Kernersville, North Carolina, homemaker Carmen Palmer shares some of her strategy when grocery shopping. Palmer, who is also known as Coupon Carmen, can get grocery items to fill up a shopping cart for just $11. She has been able to save a significant amount of the household’s grocery budget because of her extreme couponing.…

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