FOOD AND BEVERAGE INDUSTRY
11/15/07 Eco-Friendly Chips from Frito-Lay, NY Times. This is great for the workplace and community. Now we need some product choices for the graying population with doctors' orders to stay away from salt and fried food.
11/08/07 Big Food Cos., Supermarkets Said to Risk Climate Disaster, Common Dreams. Exploitation of biofuels and palm oil in Indonesia will reportedly release up to 15 billion tons of carbon through the clearcutting of trees and drying up of the peatlands.
11/06/07 Consumers Rate Whole Foods as Most Socially Responsible Company, BBMG via CSR Wire. An online panel of more than 2,000 consumers surveyed by the Global Strategy Group rates Whole Foods Market #1 (22%), Newman's Own #2 (19%), Wal-Mart #3 (18%), Burt's Bees #4 (17%). Ben & Jerry's, General Electric and Johnson & Johnson tied for #5 (16%).
11/05/07 - Sodexho, Inc. Appoints New CSR Leader, CSR Wire. Sodexho owns Wendy’s, Boston Market, the Cheesecake Factory and Harvard Food Services.
11/05/07 PepsiCo Reorganizes into Three Units, Crains NY. The company, based in Purchase, N.Y., will from FY 08 split Americas operations into food (45 percent of revenue) and beverage (30 percent) units. John Compton will head up the Americas food division, Massimo d'Amore the Americas beverage unit. The third division is PepsiCo International, headed by Mike White, which includes UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa units.
11/01/07 The Dannon Company Awards Second Annual 'Dannon Next Generation Nutrition Grants', CSR Wire
10/31/07 Ben & Jerry's First Social Audit 1989, ICCOPR.
10/31/07 Verite Selected For Key Role in Improving Labor Conditions in Cocoa Production, CSR Wire.
10/29/07 Groups Announce “Dump Soda” Campaign, Center for Science in the Public Interest and Common Dreams.
10/29/07 Consumer Groups Shut Out of Congressional Hearings on Deceptive Meat Packaging, Food and Water Watch.
10/28/07 The Unnecessary Suicide of the Organic Food Movement, Mallen Baker, Business Respect #115.
10/25/07 Mayor Bloomberg Tries Again on Calorie Listing, NY Times. The Mayor has sought to require calorie information for menu items readily available at major restaurant chains.
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