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Porta Launches Restaurant-Quality Roman-Style Pizza In Whole Foods, Sprouts And Select Natural Retailers

PORTA, a national producer of restaurant-quality Italian meals expanded into over 1,000 stores across the United States. This month, pizza lovers will be able to find PORTA Roman-Style pizzas Nationally at Whole Foods, Sprouts and select natural retailers.

Founded by renowned Italian chef and restaurateur Cosimo Mammoliti, PORTA prides itself on using the highest quality ingredients sourced from trusted Italian artisans. The hand-stretched dough contains 80% water and doesn’t require extreme heat, resulting in a pizza that’s light and airy with a crispy finish when baked in a traditional oven. The pizzas feature premium tomatoes from Campania, Italy, flour from a fourth-generation family-run mill in Le Marche, Italy, and 100% Coratina Extra-Virgin Olive Oil from a close family friend in Puglia, Italy made exclusively for PORTA. The meats, cheeses, and seasonings are carefully selected from various regions of Italy, ensuring every bite embodies the authenticity and simplicity of traditional Italian cuisine.

“Launching our Roman-style pizzas allows us to share the true taste of Italy across America,” said Cosimo Mammoliti, restaurateur and founder of PORTA. “We are passionate about bringing the best tasting, highest-quality pizza to homes across the country. Our pizzas reflect the culinary heritage of Italy and are crafted with the same quality and recipes found in tucked-away Italian restaurants.”

PORTA pizzas are meticulously handmade by chefs. The pizzas are flash frozen to lock in their rich flavors. The pizzas will be available in four varieties: Margherita, Pepperoni, Sausage & Caramelized Onion, and Mushroom & Fontina. Each variety is crafted to capture the essence of Italian culinary traditions.

With the launch of PORTA in Whole Foods, Sprouts and other select natural retailers, more consumers will have the opportunity to indulge in these restaurant-quality, traditional Italian pizzas at home.

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Saputo’s new CEO Carl Colizza makes senior executive changes

Newly-installed Saputo CEO Carl Colizza has made changes to his executive team, including the appointment of a COO and a new chief commercial officer.

Colizza took on the roles of president and CEO at the Canadian dairy giant on 9 August, moving from the positions of president and chief operating officer of Saputo’s North America business division.

He replaced long-serving chief executive Lino Saputo Jr., who moved to a new position to provide “strategic oversight” to the rest of the group’s management team.

In a series of appointments announced today (10 September), Frank Guido has been promoted to become Saputo’s COO, overseeing the company’s global operations, encompassing North America, Europe and the international division.

He was the president and COO of Saputo’s US dairy unit. All the divisional presidents and COOs will now report to Guido.

Meanwhile, a new position has been created for a chief commercial officer to be filled by Leanne Cutts. She had been overseeing Saputo’s Europe and international businesses as divisional president and COO.

Replacing Guido as president and COO of the US dairy division is Dominick Bombino. He has been promoted from the role of senior vice president for sales at the same business division.

Over in the UK, Steve Douglas becomes the regional president and COO of dairy. He was the senior vice president of operations and the supply chain for the US dairy division.

Douglas replaces Tom Atherton, who is exiting the position of president and COO of the UK division as he leaves Saputo to “pursue other opportunities”.

Atherton had held those roles since Saputo acquired Dairy Crest in 2019, although he had been with that UK business since 2005. He will stay on until the end of the year to assist with the transition process.

“This team is proven, deeply capable, and prepared to set the course for our continued success,” Colizza said.

“Each of these accomplished executives has played a pivotal part in our company over the years and through their expanded roles we will further leverage their talent and expertise as we continue to drive long-term growth and operational excellence throughout our organisation.”

Saputo notched up revenues of C$17.3bn ($12.7bn) in its 2024 fiscal year but booked net income of just C$265m, down from C$622m a year earlier.

For the first quarter of the new financial year through June, revenue climbed 9.5% to C$4.6bn. Net profit was flat at C$142m.

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As the clock ticks on the Kroger-Albertsons merger, the stakes for the grocers are rising, analysts say

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As Kroger and Albertsons’ high-stakes battle with the Federal Trade Commission to preserve their planned merger plays out in court, the time they’ve spent trying to combine has emerged as another key challenge for the supermarket companies, according to industry analysts.

In particular, the time Kroger has invested in the merger has distracted its executives during a critical period when the grocery market is shifting rapidly, raising the stakes for the company even as it faces the distinct possibility that it will not be able to complete the nearly $25 billion transaction, said David Halliday, associate teaching professor of strategic management and public policy at the George Washington University School of Business.

“The opportunity cost of pursuing the merger over the past two years has been enormous for Kroger,” which could have instead been devoting more of their attention on priorities like competing with rivals like Walmart and Amazon, said Halliday. “So if the FTC succeeds in blocking the merger, then Kroger has a strategy problem.”

Halliday said that whether or not the merger ultimately goes through, Kroger’s high-profile effort to take over Albertsons calls into question whether the grocer will be able to continue to deploy its time-tested strategy of growing by acquiring other grocery chains. Halliday said Kroger is exposed because it has depended on an “undifferentiated shopping experience” while specialty grocers like Sprouts Farmers Market and Trader Joe’s have made significant inroads with consumers.

Kroger went into the merger review process with a heavy dose of hubris when it would have been better off making more concessions from the start than it did, which could have helped tamp down opposition instead of stoking criticism, said Scott Mushkin, CEO of R5 Capital. For example, Kroger should have offered to bolster its plan to divest stores and other assets to C&S Wholesale Grocers sooner than it did, which could have helped the company deflect criticism of the deal more effectively, he said.

“I think they’ve really approached this merger incorrectly. I think they [could have come] out of the gates being more accommodative to the unions, maybe the FTC and the state attorneys general” that have opposed the merger, Mushkin said. “There was a window where they could have maybe brought people more into their camp that would be naturally opposed to it.”

A Kroger spokesperson defended its approach to handling the divestiture proposal. “Kroger conducted a thoughtful and robust process through an arms-length divestiture plan that would maintain competition and ensure that divested stores and their associates will continue serving their communities in the ways they do today. The comprehensive divestiture plan achieves these objectives,” the spokesperson said in a statement.

The spokesperson added that the company has not allowed its effort to merge with Albertsons to get in the way of its broader corporate objectives: “Since announcing the proposed merger with Albertsons, Kroger has continued to execute on our key pillars to advance our go-to-market strategy and drive long-term, sustainable value for stakeholders.”

Kroger and Albertsons have spent the past two weeks facing off against the FTC in a Portland, Oregon, courtroom, looking to swat aside the agency’s drive to obtain a preliminary injunction to stop them from merging. Regulators have laid out evidence for why they believe the merger would be anticompetitive and should be stopped, and the trial has focused heavily on the FTC’s contention that Kroger and Albertsons’ proposal to divest nearly 600 stores to C&S is insufficient, The Wall Street Journal recently reported.

“The FTC is comfortable showing the harms of the potential merger and also demonstrating that even the parties’ proposed ‘best’ outcome of a merger will prove flawed and ultimately bad for both workers and consumers,” David Schwartz, an antitrust partner in Washington with law firm BCLP and former lead investigative attorney at the FTC, said in comments sent by email.

Arun Sundaram, senior vice president of equity research for CFRA Research, said in an email that he believes there is now only a 20% chance that Kroger will be able to consummate its merger with Albertsons, in part because the FTC has been successful in advancing its case that the combination would eliminate competition in the supermarket industry.

The FTC’s claim that the merger would hurt workers “is a weaker argument, in our view, but showcases the different angles the FTC is taking to prevail,” Sundaram said.

The FTC is also investigating the merger plan through an administrative law tribunal that is taking place concurrent with the trial. In August, Kroger filed a lawsuit claiming that process is unconstitutional. Kroger and Albertsons are also facing state lawsuits filed by the attorneys general of Washington and Colorado aimed at stopping the merger.

The myriad competitive and legal pressures Kroger and Albertsons are facing underscores the importance for the companies of convincing the Oregon judge, Adrienne Nelson, not to issue an order to halt the merger, said Arindam Kar, an antitrust attorney at law firm Polsinelli.

“They probably carry much more of a burden here [than the FTC], not only in the preliminary injunction hearing, but just [in] all the other things that they have to succeed on to truly clear the slate, to say, ‘Yes, we can move forward with our acquisition,’” Kar said about the challenges Kroger faces.

Another issue for Kroger is that even if the Judge Nelson rejects the FTC’s bid for an injunction and clears the way for the merger to proceed, the agency could later challenge the combination if it finds evidence that it is anticompetitive, said Jeffery Cross, an antitrust specialist who is of counsel to the law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell. Regulators could challenge the merger in the future even if they agree to let it go through, he added.

Mushkin said the time Kroger has lost trying to push the merger through has exacerbated the pressure it faces from Walmart, which has steamed ahead in the grocery sector in recent years. He noted that Walmart has made substantial progress in automating its operations since the merger was announced in October 2022, compounding the competitive pressure the retail giant poses.

In addition, the competition Kroger and Albertsons face from specialty grocers like Trader Joe’s and Sprouts as well as discounters like Aldi and Lidl has grown as the merger review has played out, Halliday said. Since Kroger and Albertsons announced their merger plans, Aldi has acquired a major supermarket chain and announced plans to add 800 stores by 2028.

Kroger has argued that a successful effort by regulators to stop the merger would benefit rivals like Walmart and Amazon at the expense of shoppers and workers. “If the merger is blocked, the non-union retailers like Walmart and Amazon will become even more powerful and unaccountable,” a Kroger spokesperson said in a statement on Aug. 26, the day the federal trial over the transaction began.

The looming possibility that Kroger and Albertsons will ultimately need to walk away from their deal after spending so long trying to win approval for it highlights the conundrum the companies face in a rapidly evolving grocery market, said Mushkin.

“You’re getting really stuck in the middle if you’re a traditional supermarket,” he said.

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Vital Farms adds chief supply chain officer role

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Vital Farms named Joe Holland as chief supply chain officer, a newly created role for the company starting Sept. 1, according to an Aug. 20 press release.

Holland is leading Vital Farms’ diversified supply chain team which includes the company’s egg washing and packing facility located in Springfield, Missouri, also known as Egg Central Station. He will also lead the company’s future facility in Seymour, Indiana, and dairy operations for its growing butter business.

The supply chain executive will also be responsible of tasks held from the former Chief Operating Officer Jason Dale. Dale served as COO since 2019 but will now remain in an advisory role until the end of 2024, according to the release.

Before joining Vital Farms, Holland was EVP of operations and supply chain at Curaleaf Holdings, a provider of consumer cannabis products. He has over 25 years of experience in operations where he served in various supply chain and distribution roles with Dean Foods, Cadbury Schweppes and Ventura Foods.

“Joe’s unwavering commitment to service, quality, and cost principles will help us further innovate and deliver long-term resilience across our supply chain,” Russell Diez-Canseco, CEO and President of Vital Farms, said in the release. “I’m excited for Joe to dig into the incredible work our supply chain team already does every day to continue expanding our leadership in ethical food and making progress towards our goal of $1B in net revenue by 2027.”

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Elevate Your Baking with Custom Fat Solutions

For many baking enthusiasts and professional chefs alike, achieving the perfect bake is a blend of art and science. While classic ingredients like butter and vegetable oil are staples, custom fat solutions are revolutionizing the baking world by offering tailored approaches to fat that can significantly enhance the quality of your baked goods.

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As Francois LaSalle from Columbus Vegetable Oils, notes, “If our existing products don’t fit the application or work in the process, then Columbus Vegetable Oils can work directly with the customer to create and develop a new product based on our extensive knowledge in fats and oils.” This collaborative approach ensures that your specific needs are met with precision.

Custom fats are designed to meet specific needs, from achieving the ideal texture to extending shelf life. Imagine crafting a pastry with just the right flakiness or a cake with an incredibly tender crumb. Custom fat solutions can be formulated to provide these precise qualities, ensuring your baked goods turn out exactly as you envision them.

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Beyond texture, flavor plays a crucial role in baking. Custom fats allow you to refine or enhance flavors, creating a more nuanced taste experience. Whether you want a subtle hint of coconut or a richer, buttery note, custom fats can be tailored to complement or elevate the overall flavor profile of your treats.

Moreover, custom fat solutions can help extend the freshness of your baked goods, keeping them delightful for longer. This is particularly valuable for items intended for sale or distribution, where maintaining quality over time is essential.

LaSalle adds that “Suppliers are really well-equipped to deal with whatever the bakers need. It’s really a matter of communication, trust, and partnership. The sky is the limit now.”

With custom fat solutions, the possibilities for innovation and perfection in baking are virtually limitless. So why not explore this exciting opportunity and see how custom fats can elevate your baking to new levels of excellence?

Learn more at www.cvoils.com.

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Big Chicken debuts ‘O’Neal Family Secret Menu’ on Bite kiosks

Sept. 10, 2024

Big Chicken is bringing a taste of family tradition to its restaurants with the launch of the exclusive “O’Neal Family Secret Menu,” available only through Bite’s self-service kiosks. The menu features special customizations inspired by Shaquille O’Neal’s favorite dishes, like his mother’s “Lucille’s Sunday Dinner Combo.”

“I started Big Chicken to share the love and laughter that my family felt from coming together with my mom in the kitchen,” said O’Neal in a press release. “Now, we’re inviting everyone at Big Chicken to share in that experience with the ‘O’Neal Family Secret Menu.'”

Guests can explore the secret menu themselves by following an interactive experience on the Bite kiosk, adding a playful twist to the ordering process.

“We believe technology can play an important role in elevating the guest experience,” Brandon Barton, CEO at Bite, said in the release. “This unique collaboration is evident of that — serving as a digital point of entry to the O’Neal Family Secret Menu, a collection of his favorite menu items from his own family members.”

The hidden menu will feature rotating favorites, offering guests a chance to try new items inspired by the O’Neal family.

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SPAM Introduces Limited-Time Gochujang Offering

The SPAM brand continues to draw inspiration from foods and flavors around the world with the launch of SPAM Gochujang.

Fans can find this limited-edition variety in an eight-pack exclusively at Costco Wholesale Warehouses, while supplies last.

Gochujang is a fermented spicy red chili paste and is a staple ingredient in Korean cuisine. SPAM Gochujang combines spicy, sweet, smoky and umami flavor notes. Use it in more traditional recipes like kimbap, so-tteok so-tteok, or budae jjigae or put a flavorful twist on your musubi, SPAM and eggs, or ramen.

“In celebration of the love Korean-Americans have for the SPAM brand, we wanted to create our very own SPAM Gochujang flavored,” says Jennesa Kinscher, senior brand manager for the SPAM brand. “This can packs an approachable heat while still providing the versatility and convenience we all love about SPAM products.”

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AMP Introduces TotalClean CIP Systems

Automated Material Processing (AMP), comprising industry leaders Kason Corporation and Marion Process Solutions, has recently introduced its TotalClean Clean-in-Place (CIP) systems.

These CIP solutions are designed to increase efficiency, safety and profitability across a range of industries including food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, chemical, cosmetic, food processing, dairy and brewing, all while meeting validation of FDA, 3A and BPE standards.

The CIP systems employ high-pressure nozzles to thoroughly clean even in challenging and hard-to-reach areas. The automation reduces manual intervention, providing a consistent and repeatable CIP cleaning process. Furthermore, the faster cleaning cycles of Marion’s and Kason’s TotalClean CIP systems, which average 30-60 minutes, result in higher profit margins by enabling quicker batch changes and increased product throughput.

Marion’s TotalClean CIP system offers customizable devices and zones, targeting specific areas such as door recesses, inlet ports, discharges and mixer agitators. This customization ensures comprehensive cleaning coverage, achieving up to 99% wash coverage. Additionally, Marion’s system offers the flexibility of mobile units mounted on a skid or static installations, making it ideal for various facility layouts. Key features include high-pressure/low-flow pumps, pressure and flow control, on-demand hot water, temperature monitoring and control, detergent injection and conductivity-based detergent control. The system also integrates HMI/PLC controls for precise operation, monitoring and verification. Marion’s CIP system can be retrofitted to industrial mixers, blenders and more, ensuring seamless integration into existing processes.

Engineered to clean a wide range of equipment, including centrifugal sifters, vibratory screeners and fluid beds, Kason’s TotalClean CIP system features a compact design. Available as either a mobile skid for added flexibility and versatility or as a static unit, the system allows for easy integration into facilities with limited space without compromising functionality. It also shares several advanced features with Marion’s, such as high-pressure/low-flow pumps, pressure and flow control, on-demand hot water, temperature monitoring and control and detergent injection with conductivity-based control. These features ensure precise management of the cleaning process, enhancing both efficiency and effectiveness. Like Marion’s system, Kason’s CIP system can be retrofitted to any product or vessel, providing flexibility and adaptability for various applications.

The CIP systems offer advantages for a range of industries. In the food industry, for example, they ensure hygienic processing conditions, prevent cross-contamination and comply with stringent food safety standards.

“The introduction of AMP’s TotalClean CIP systems represents a significant advancement in industrial cleaning technology,” says AMP’s CEO Seth Vance. “These systems increase operational efficiency and throughput by maximizing machine utilization and reducing downtime. Additionally, they provide a safer cleaning process with decreased manual intervention and associated risks. Plus, their customization and retrofit capability allows our customers to seamlessly integrate these advanced solutions into their existing processes on any product or vessel.”

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Confidentiality and Security of Your Personal Data

We are committed to keeping the data you provide us secure and will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal data from loss, misuse or alteration.

However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features described above to try to prevent unauthorised access.

We have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

unauthorised access

improper use or disclosure

unauthorised modification

unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees, contractors and data processors (i.e. those who process your personal data on our behalf, for the purposes listed above), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of your personal data, are obliged to keep the information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for us.

Responsibilities

Everyone who works for or with Exporta Publishing & Events Ltd has some responsibility for ensuring data is collected, stored and handled appropriately. Each team handling personal data must ensure that it is handled and processed in line with this policy and data protection principles. However, the following people have key areas of responsibility.
The board of directors is ultimately responsible for ensuring that Exporta Publishing & Events Ltd meets its legal obligations.

Name of Data Controller

The Data Controller is Exporta Publishing & Events Ltd. Exporta Publishing & Events Ltd is subject to the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and is registered in the UK with the Information Commissioner`s Office.

How to access, update and erase your personal information

If you wish to know whether we are keeping personal data about you, or if you have an enquiry about our privacy policy or your personal data held by us, in relation to any of the Sites, you can contact the Data Protection Officer via:

By writing to this address: Data Protection Officer, Exporta Publishing & Events Ltd, 4 Hillgate Place, London, SW12 9ER, UK

Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8673 9666

E-mail: privacy@gtreview.com

Upon request, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you. We may require proof of your identity and may charge a small fee (not exceeding the statutory maximum fee that can be charged) to cover administration and postage.

Exporta Publishing & Events Ltd allows you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate in accordance with applicable laws, you may have your personal information:

erased

rectified or amended

completed

Disclosing data for other reasons

In certain circumstances, the Data Protection Act allows personal data to be disclosed to law enforcement agencies without the consent of the data subject. Under these circumstances, Exporta Publishing & Events Ltd, will disclose requested data. However, the Data Controller will ensure the request is legitimate, seeking assistance from the board and from the company’s legal advisors where necessary.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

We will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect new legislation or industry practice, group company changes and customer feedback. We encourage you to review this Privacy Statement periodically to be informed of how we are protecting your personal data.

Providing information

Exporta Publishing & Events Ltd aims to ensure that individuals are aware that their data is being processed, and that they understand.

How the data is being used

How to exercise their rights

To this end, the company has a privacy statement, setting out how data relating to individuals is used by the company. This is available on request and available on the company’s website.

Review of this policy

We keep this Policy under regular review. This Privacy Statement was last updated in April 2018.

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