Woolworths Supermarkets In Australia
Promotes Kids’ Produce Consumption
When little Nick comes home from school, he likes to make himself a pretty cool Celery Man. Check it out right here. A most artistic young Emma gives her Mom “a hand” by preparing for herself a five-fingered snack with fresh produce and cheese. You can see how she does it right here. Ryan is […]
Will Meijer Be In Tesco’s Sights If
It Succeeds With Fresh & Easy Format?
As Tesco prepares to enter the US market, if it finds some success, a logical question to ask is: “What will Tesco do next?” Well, without a doubt, Tesco will continue to expand its small footprint concept. We know it has already signed several leases in the San Francisco Bay area and needs to build […]
Chiquita Sets New Course For Future
Big news from Chiquita: Chiquita Brands International, Inc. (NYSE: CQB) today outlined a restructuring plan and management changes designed to accelerate its previously announced strategy to become the global leader in healthy, fresh foods. This business restructuring is designed to improve the company’s profitability by consolidating operations and simplifying its overhead structure to improve efficiency, […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Houston Will Need To ‘Step It Up’ For PMA’s Permanent Rotation
A quick review of Post-PMA-convention articles before we move on to our letter of the day: PMA Analysis — Does Houston Merit A Permanent Place In The PMA Rotation? — this was the question we asked to kick off our post-PMA analysis. PMA’s Attendance Just Shy Of 16,000, focused on attendance. Peter Dessak, Vice President […]
Lessons On Social Responsibility From GAP’s Child Labor Woes
The GAP is being crucified around the world because of a discovery that child labor was used to produce clothing for retail clothing giant. This piece from the Telegraph in London, entitled ‘Gap sweatshop children’ saved in India raid, has lots of pictures. It may seem distant from any concerns of the produce and perishable […]
Is Wal-Mart Foolish
For Focusing On Small Savings?
Our piece, Wal-Mart’s Global Procurement Division Gets Special Pass On Quality, was the latest in a series of articles dealing with Wal-Mart’s procurement practices. We launched this discussion with our piece, High Lettuce Prices Strain Supplier Relations With Wal-Mart, and then followed up with an article we called, Wal-Mart Tightens Quality Specs. We then heard […]
Pundit’s Mailbag —
PMA’s Opportunity To Learn From Friends And Foes
We started our analysis of the PMA convention with a piece entitled, PMA Analysis — Does Houston Merit A Permanent Place In The PMA Rotation? We then ran PMA’s Attendance Just Shy Of 16,000, which focused on attendance. Peter Dessak, Vice President of Six L’s Packing Company, contributed to the industry discussion with a letter […]
Organic Definition Under Attack By Group Opposed
To Air Freighting
The organic movement was already fracturing between advocates of local and advocates of organic. Now from the U.K., there is an indication that the organic standard will morph into something considerably different than its original meaning. From the Guardian in the U.K.: AIR-FREIGHT FOOD MUST PASS FAIR TRADE TESTTO RETAIN ORGANIC LABEL IN FUTURE Soil […]
Tesco May Face Opposition Not Only From Unions But Also Animal Rights Activists
Tesco has to no small extent staked its claim in the American market based on a reputational appeal. It wants to be seen as the company that always does the right thing. Thus it promotes its solar panels on the roof of the distribution center and promises to locate stores in underserved areas. It promises […]
Wal-Mart’s Global Procurement Division
Gets Special Pass On Quality
Wal-Mart suppliers in the U.S. are now objecting to new plans for how Wal-Mart will receive, handle and evaluate at least some products supplied by Wal-Mart’s global procurement effort. We’ve been running a series of pieces on Wal-Mart focused on the fact that it has toughened up procurement standards, although the real problem is store-level […]
