Food & Beverage

'Not One Drop' of Poland Spring Bottled Water Is From a Spring, Lawsuit Claims

August 30, 2017

Poland Spring, the country's best-selling bottled water, is "a colossal fraud," according to a class-action lawsuit.

Wal-Mart Is Buying Trendy E-Commerce Sites. The Cool Kids Are Not Having It.

August 30, 2017

At the height of their love affair, Bridget Henry visited online clothing store ModCloth's app every day. It wasn't just the clothes with a vintage and quirky vibe that the 26-year-old liked, it was the story.

EU Moves to Improve Fairness in Food Supply Chain

August 29, 2017

Supply Management

The European Commission (EC) has launched a wide public consultation on how to improve fairness in the EU's food supply chain.

Little-Known Suppliers Poised to Benefit From Apple iPhone

August 29, 2017

Industryweek

It was the late 1990s, and entrepreneurs Steven Abramson and Sidney Rosenblatt were pitching an electronics giant on their new flat-screen technology. It didn't go well.

Wal-Mart, Food Giants Team Up on Blockchain Plans

August 29, 2017

Fortune

Wal-Mart and a group of food giants are teaming up with IBM to explore how to apply blockchain technology, also known as distributed ledger tech, to their food supply chains.

Q&A: A Look at the Biggest Risks That Threaten Global Supply Chains

August 28, 2017

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

A new report examines the impact of protectionism, food and water scarcity - and the prospect of another energy crisis on supply chains in the U.S. and around the world.

New Robot Containers Could Ship Aquaculture Products

August 25, 2017

Maritime Executive

A group of Norwegian graduates have spent their summer developing smart "robot containers" with cooling systems that can sail to ports without any human interaction.

With Some Countries, China Is in the Red

August 25, 2017

Bloomberg

China's big trade surpluses hog all the headlines, but imbalances go both ways.

Americans Are Buying More Food at Wal-Mart

August 24, 2017

The Washington Post

Competition is heating up among U.S. grocery chains, but Americans are increasingly buying their food at Wal-Mart.

Tarnished by Charlottesville, Tiki Torch Company Tries to Move On

August 24, 2017

The New York Tines

As the images streamed out of Charlottesville, Va., this month showing white nationalists protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, many could not help noticing the product illuminating the faces twisted into sneers of hate: Tiki torches.

Food & Beverage

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