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How ‘Hypermodal’ Trade will Transform Logistics

Report explores how Big Data and analytics are removing logistics efficiencies.

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Robotics and Automation: Evolution, not Revolution

Robots take on more picking, sorting and packaging as technology advances.

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Honeywell Nears Agreement to Acquire JDA Software for Around $3 Billion

Honeywell International

The acquisition would boost Honeywell’s shift into software, as opposed to the heavy goods like jet engines and building control systems for which the company is best known.

Honeywell International Inc. is nearing a deal to acquire JDA Software Group Inc., a maker of software that helps businesses manage their supply chains, according to a person familiar with the matter, according to MarketWatch.

The Fresh Market Signs Wholesale/Distribution Agreement with Supervalu

In its role as grocery wholesaler, Supervalu will supply The Fresh Market with traditional and signature grocery products across a range of categories including meat, deli, bakery, grocery, frozen foods and dairy.

The Fresh Market, Inc. operates 176 stores in 24 states across the U.S.

Email Campaign Urges McDonald’s to Remove Antibiotics from Global Livestock

McDonald's Corp.

U.K.-based ShareAction has launched an online action enabling people to email Steve Easterbrook, the CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, calling on him to stop the routine use of antibiotics in the company’s global livestock supply chains.

ShareAction, U.K.-based responsible investment charity, has launched an online action enabling people to email Steve Easterbrook, the CEO of McDonald’s Corporation, calling on him to stop the routine use of antibiotics in the company’s global livestock supply chains.

Amazon Prime Video Makes Japanese Delicacies '1-Click' Purchase

Amazon hopes this combination of online streaming and shopping can differentiate the new service from traditional shopping channels.

Japanese entertainment conglomerate Yoshimoto Kogyo will create video content featuring local specialties from across Japan to be shown on Amazon Prime Video. While watching, shoppers can buy the products featured just by tapping the '1-Click' icon.

Feds Investigate Flowers Foods Over Misclassifying Drivers as Contractors

The company intends to cooperate with the department, and because the review process is confidential, the company has no further comment at this time.

The company is currently being sued by a number of truck drivers alleging they were wrongly classified as independent contractors, causing them to miss overtime pay and other employee benefits.

Falling Food Prices: Supermarkets Gaining on Fast Food

Grocery prices are dropping due to lower commodity costs, and people are eating at home more often as a result.

Restaurant sales have been so lackluster this year that one Wall Street analyst thinks that they may be a 'harbinger' for a U.S. recession next year.

United Natural Foods Acquires Gourmet Guru

United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI)

Founded in 1996, Gourmet Guru is a distributor and merchandiser of fresh and organic food focusing on new and emerging brands.

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BlueGrace Logistics Receives $255 M Investment, Will Add 700 Positions

BlueGrace Logistics LLC

BlueGrace intends to use the funding to fuel the rapid growth of the business, including hiring 500 to 700 new employees, accelerating its national expansion plans and pursuing strategic acquisitions.

Founded in 2009, BlueGrace has developed a proprietary software platform that provides customers who need to ship goods with multiple offers from trucking companies.

Cargill Ditches Antibiotics in Feeding Turkeys

Cargill has not used the drug, gentamicin, to prevent disease in turkeys that supply its two biggest brands, Honeysuckle White and Shady Brook Farms, since August 1, the company said.

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2005 file photo, turkeys are pictured at a turkey farm near Sauk Centre , Minn. A deadly strain of bird flu has reached the Midwest, killing or requiring hundreds of thousands of turkeys to be euthanized.

Mondelēz May Make Second Hershey Bid as Five Trust Members to Leave

A takeover would have created the world’s largest confectioner and expanded Mondelez’s U.S. footprint.

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