With its direct-to-consumer model, bedding company Boll & Branch has become one of the biggest viral-marketing successes of the past several years and the largest consumer of organic fair trade-certified cotton in the world.
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With its direct-to-consumer model, bedding company Boll & Branch has become one of the biggest viral-marketing successes of the past several years and the largest consumer of organic fair trade-certified cotton in the world.
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In conjunction with Microsoft, Kroger is now testing out “digital shelves” which can keep track of products and help speed shoppers through the aisles. These could be rolled out to all of its 2,780 supermarkets.
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A fascinating look at Thrive Market’s strategy, and this year’s objectives include figuring out its approach to offline pickups and retail store integrations.
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A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging that Monsanto’s Roundup causes cancer has issued a ruling that could severely restrict evidence that the plaintiffs consider crucial to their cases.
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Wanting to give shoppers the ability to search online for items by dietary preference or to find product ingredient lists and nutritional information, Whole Foods has launched a digital product catalog at products.wholefoodsmarket.com.
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Organic snack brand Hippeas just closed on an additional $8M of financing, which was led by existing investor CAVU Venture Partners.
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Peet’s Coffee has increased its ownership in organic beverage brand Revive Kombucha, with Sean J. Lovett and Rebekah Lovett, co-founders, maintaining their equity and leadership positions at the company.
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Wild Poppy, which sells organic soda and juice, has been purchased by the publicly-traded Life on Earth, Inc.
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Amazon wants to put more customers within the range of its two-hour Prime Now delivery service, including suburban areas and in regions where Whole Foods does not currently have a presence.
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Despite the fact that Amazon leads online grocery sales, its supermarket competitors that offer e-commerce options are experiencing much bigger average ticket sizes and seeing more frequent trips to their stores.
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Very cool! Fairafric, which sources and produces its organic chocolate from Africa, has purchased equity for its farmers, making them co-owners in the business.
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Electrolyte-infused beverage brand Roar Organic has closed on $5.6 million in funding led by NYC-based AccelFoods.
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Whole Foods, which ranked worst in a study of five major U.S. grocery chains for chemicals it uses in packaging at its popular hot-food bar, said it has removed all of the coated paper products in question and has begun looking for new biodegradable packaging.
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Amazon appears to still be bullish on Whole Foods’ 365 smaller-store format, and “check-out free technology” may soon be implemented.
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The first of 13 Kroger Express stores has opened in Kentucky, and this smaller-format concept will carry 2,300 items, including Kroger’s Simple Truth organic brand.
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It has been reported that Danone is not having an easy time finding a buyer for Earthbound Farms, something that should not go unnoticed by our industry.
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Kraft has acquired the organic and natural paleo brand Primal Kitchen, which is expected to generate $50M in sales this year.
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Patagonia, the outdoor clothing and organic food company, will owe $10M less in taxes as a result of “last year’s irresponsible tax cut” and will put that money back into the planet. As CEO Rose Marcario said in a letter on LinkedIn, “Our home planet needs it more than we do.” Just awesome!
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Green Mountain CBD, a Vermont-based organic hemp grower and maker of CBD products, has raised $7M from One Better Ventures and will rebrand itself as SunSoil in 2019.
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To support its animal advocacy efforts, Dr. Bronner’s has released a limited-edition soap label featured on its 4-ounce Almond Castile Liquid Soaps (not sold at retail but will be given away at events) to highlight the gruesome fact that 99% percent of animals used for food production live in CAFOs.
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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey opens up about many different things — life after Amazon, what he cooks, and why he mentions using animal products in his mostly plant-based cookbook.
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To address the issue of fraud in organic, particularly with overseas containers, the OTA’s Global Organic Supply Chain Integrity Task Force formed a pilot project to develop a Best Practices Guide.
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Buyers, product developers, category managers and chefs from Whole Foods picked what they believe to be the top trends for 2019, with Pacific Rim flavors and shelf stable probiotics heading the list.
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Bill Moses, co-founder and CEO of KeVita, just raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Ecosystem Integrity Fund for Flying Embers, his organic hard kombucha company.
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