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IBM is partnering with giant food and retail companies to track food supply chains and improve safety through blockchain technology. Among the companies declaring to run trials with them are Walmart, Nestle, Unilever, Tyson Foods, Kroger, and Dole Food Company. Blockchain, which originally started as the cryptocurrency system Bitcoin, is …

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., (August 18 2017) — Where there is football, there is beer, and with it, fans who are passionate about both. Now in the second year of the sponsorship, Dos Equis® is placing itself front and center amongst the College Football Playoff action where football and Dos Equis® combine …

The 2017 Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo, which will be held August 27-29 in Los Angeles, will bring together more than 400 exhibitors from the food and restaurant industry. Hispanic and Latin American products will also be present at the event, at the Sabor Latino Pavilion. The Sabor Latino Pavilion …

Taco Bell will be releasing a new breakfast menu item by the end of this month, proving that anything can be a taco shell. The breakfast item is the Naked Egg Taco, a fried egg taco shell filled with potato, bacon or sausage and cheese. The menu item was first …

Tyson Foods will invest $84 million to expand its poultry plant in Union City, Tennessee. More than 300 jobs will be created by the project, which is expected to be complete by mid- 2019. The project, set to begin this fall, will increase capacity to the plant’s existing harvest area, …

The CEO of Flagship Food Group, Rob Holland, and Governor of New Mexico, Susan Martinez, declared that Flagship will expand their distribution facilities to the Albuquerque area. They plan on investing $3 million to serve their customers from one point of distribution, a 76,000-square foot frozen distribution warehouse. Flagship’s 505 …

Target wants to accelerate the retailer’s grocery strategy and for that purpose the company hired two new senior food and beverage leaders, Mark Kenny and Liz Nordlie. To compete with Amazon, the discount chain is buying a software company that manages local and same-day deliveries. The new executives bring industry …

Aldi supermarket has entered in a partnership with grocery delivery service company Instacart. The new pilot program serves to let customers get their products delivered to them in as little as an hour. The program will be launched in Dallas, Los Angeles and Atlanta later this month with plans of …

Two major supermarket chains, Southeastern Grocers in the Southeast, and Fiesta Mart in Texas, announced the appointment of new CEOs for their companies. Southeastern Grocers appointed Anthony Hucker President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Anthony has served as Interim President and CEO since July 1, 2017. “We are pleased …

The company Tostiricas Nieto S.A. Of C.V., better known as Tostadas Charras, celebrated the inauguration, on August 9, of its modern production plant located in the municipality of San José Itúrbide in Guanajuato, Mexico, with an investment of 18.1 million dollars. The facility, which was built on a 6.4 acres …