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Carbon Footprint

How To Improve Supply Chain Sustainability: The Collective Impact Model

The Green America Center for Sustainability Solutions

Sustainability in the agriculture sector is even more urgent than ever, with climate as a driver.

DAVE FELDMAN

The Top 10 “Must Reads” Of 2015

Take a look at the Food Logistics articles your peers made the most popular from the past year.

Robots build pallets at the Coca Cola Co. warehouse in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Target Corp. Scrutinizes Its Food Supply Chain

Target Corporation

The nation’s second largest retailer seeks to correct out of stocks and make food a shopping destination for consumers.

Target wants to make its food section a destination for shoppers. Consultants have said the company needs to focus on its outer ring selections offering fresh, refrigerated and frozen food.

Chipotle Reverses Course On Locally-Sourced Ingredients To Stem E.Coli Fallout

At a recent investor conference, company founder and co-CEO Steve Ells reviewed the new practice of sanitizing, dicing, and hermetically sealing cilantro, tomatoes and lettuce in a central kitchen.

Transpacific Container Carriers To Raise U.S. Export Rates On Feb. 1, 2016

The TSA has recommended a general rate increase (GRI) on Feb. 1, 2016 in the amount of $100 per 40-foot container (FEU) for cargo moving via the U.S. West Coast, and $200 per FEU for cargo moving via the U.S. East and Gulf Coasts.

A slowdown in Chinese economic growth has hammered the global shipping industry, which exited the Great Recession to take advantage of low interest rates to buy new ships to handle a rising amount of coal, iron ore and consumer goods. But as China’s factories scale back and the economies of Europe and North America gear down, the amount of cargo traversing the oceans has slowed.

Specialty Food Investor Arbor Investments Acquires DPI Specialty Foods

Arbor Investments is a specialized private equity firm that focuses exclusively on acquiring premier companies in the food, beverage and related industries.

Arbor Investments has completed the acquisition of a majority equity stake in Ontario, California-based DPI Specialty Foods, Inc. from Dublin, Ireland-based Ornua Co-Operative Limited.

FDA Halts Vermont Dairy Farm That Drugged Cattle

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

The FDA found that the company offered for sale cows with illegal drug residues in their tissue, administered drugs contrary to label directions without proper veterinary oversight and supervision and failed to maintain adequate treatment records.

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U.S. Fleets Post Improved Fuel Economy Using Efficiency Technologies

North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE)

North American Council for Freight Efficiency study finds fleets accelerate adoption of fuel efficiency technologies.

Shrimp Peeled By Slaves In Thailand Finds Its Way To U.S. Supply Chains

Despite repeated promises by businesses and government to clean up the country's $7 billion seafood export industry, an Associated Press investigation has found shrimp peeled by modern-day slaves is reaching the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Last month, AP journalists followed and filmed trucks loaded with freshly peeled shrimp from the Gig shed to major Thai exporting companies and then, using U.S. customs records and Thai industry reports, tracked it globally. They also traced similar connections from another factory raided six months earlier, and interviewed more than two dozen workers from both sites.

Material Handling Equipment

Material Handing Maker Southworth International Group To Acquire Marco Group AB

Southworth offers a large selection of equipment designed to improve productivity and worker safety in applications that involve lifting and positioning.

Southworth International Group, a provider of ergonomic material handling equipment, announced that it has agreed to acquire Marco Group AB, a European manufacturer of similar lifting and positioning technologies in Sweden.

Carbon Footprint

Kellogg Calls On Suppliers To Reduce GHG Emissions

Kellogg Company

Kellogg Co. recognizes that upstream agriculture emissions and manufacturing are the largest sources of emissions in the company's supply chain and is focusing efforts on reductions in these two areas.

Cold Stone Creamery Parent Kahala Brands Acquires Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt Chain

Pinkberry has more than 260 stores in 20 countries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Kahala Brands, which owns quick-service restaurant names including Cold Stone Creamery and the Great Steak & Potato Co., issued a statement saying that Pinkberry is 'an excellent strategic fit for our company.'

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