Former NBA star Ray Allen will be adding a second stand-alone location of Grown, his Miami-based organic, gluten-free restaurant, to the new Walmart Supercenter in Orlando. This is huge news.
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Former NBA star Ray Allen will be adding a second stand-alone location of Grown, his Miami-based organic, gluten-free restaurant, to the new Walmart Supercenter in Orlando. This is huge news.
Read ArticleIt has been some ride over the last few years for Denise Mari, Founder of Organic Avenue. With new investors and having emerged from bankruptcy, this iconic NYC juice brand has a bright future again.
Read ArticleBrodo, the super-popular bone broth shop in NYC, will open inside of Whole Foods in Williamsburg. I predict this will be the first of many collaborations between the two.
Read ArticleThe venture capital arm of General Mills, 301 Inc., led a $6 million round in organic kale chip company Rhythm Superfoods. The Austin-based producer of organic snacks is on track to do $20 million in revenues this year.
Read ArticlePrivate equity firm San Francisco Equity Partners has taken a majority stake in Red Monkey Foods, a leading provider of organic spices and seasonings. Red Monkey Foods was named by Inc. 500 as one of “America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies.”
Read ArticleA cool story in Forbes of how Barnana got started and how it has quickly grown, all with the mission of not letting unwanted bananas go to waste.
Read ArticleHain Celestial has just agreed to a joint venture with India-based Future Group and intends to market its natural & organic products in that country. Expect to see brands such as Terra, Garden of Eatin’, Sensible Portions, Dream and Earth’s Best in India sometime soon.
Read ArticleWhile The Organic Coup is the country’s first certified organic fast-food restaurant, Nic’s in Chicago claims to be the the country’s first certified organic fast-food restaurant with a drive-thru. I hope these two companies inspire other entrepreneurs to get in the certified organic restaurant business. Consumer demand is enormous.
Read ArticleKuli Kuli, which sells organic moringa powder, drinks and bars, just completed a $4.25M Series A led by eighteen94 captial, the VC arm of Kellogg. Congrats to my friend and CEO/Founder Lisa Curtis on this financing.
Read ArticleOne of the industry’s most influential CEOs on what he thinks will happen this year. Very interesting read.
Read ArticleJeremiah McElwee, VP of Purchasing and Merchandising at Thrive Market, talks about what he looks for when taking on a new product and also discusses the trends that he is seeing.
Read ArticleWith Whole Foods moving to a centralized buying model, some are speculating that food start-ups may face serious problems getting on store shelves.
Read ArticleThe Today Show did an interesting segment on how organic produce distributor Baldor’s is putting 100% of its food scraps to good use.
Read ArticleHunt’s Tomatoes posted a video proudly advertising that its tomatoes are Non-GMO. Needless to say, the pro-GMO community wasn’t happy about this.
Read ArticleThe coconut water giant agrees to settle a lawsuit over illegally using non-organic coconuts. Class action lawyers say that the organic certifier, Bioagricert, was not doing its job correctly.
Read ArticleIn El Paso, Texas, Whole Foods Market has just opened its first bilingual store and is positioning it as the “third place” for city residents.
Read ArticleShopRite, the largest retailer-owned cooperative in the U.S. with more than 270 stores, has just launched its own private label line of organic products.
Read ArticleIn an interesting interview, the CEO of Danone, Emmanuel Faber, discusses the future of organic and the pending $10 billion WhiteWave acquisition.
Read ArticleInstacart has disclosed the five most popular brands that people were searching for on its website in 2016.
Read ArticleOn the heels of the company firing nine store managers in the Mid-Atlantic region for manipulating the bonus program to their benefit, two former employees have filed a massive class action lawsuit claiming that Whole Foods cheated them and 20,000 other employees out of their earned bonuses.
Read ArticleA fascinating look at what people are purchasing the most at Whole Foods.
Read ArticleA Los Angeles Superior Court just dismissed a lawsuit against Jessica Alba’s The Honest Company for falsely labeling its infant formula as organic. Immediately, the Organic Consumers Association filed an appeal.
Read ArticleIn what seems to be a growing pattern, Monsanto is sued for illegal herbicide use which caused serious crop damage. This time, the largest peach farmer in Missouri is taking the seed giant to court.
Read ArticleSeeking to expand its lunch offerings, Starbucks will begin a regional rollout of organic soup in the spring.
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