Items Tagged with "Private Label Sustainability"
|
Simon Barnes, a senior analyst and consultant at U.K.’s IGD specializing in sustainability, looks at what’s ahead. Will sustainability programs hurt private label? What’s the impact of Walmart’s scorecard? How are the big brands reacting? VIEW VIDEO
Read More...
|
|
|
Ahold is offsetting its store brands palm oil usage by purchasing GreenPalm certificates until it can replace supply with certified sustainable palm oil in all of its products.
GreenPalm is a certificate-trading program that allows palm oil producers to earn more for their crop through sustainable
Read More...
Tags: business,
ahold,
store brand sustainability,
private label sustainability,
industry,
markets,
companies,
food and beverage,
roundtable on sustainable palm oil. rspo,
greenpalm sustainability grocery,
|
|
|
Packaging and pallet suppliers that want to continue doing business with Walmart –– which recently announced its goal of eliminate 20 percent of greenhouse gases and carbon emissions from its supply chain by 2015 –– will have to put forth more eco-friendly packaging and shipp
Read More...
Tags: wal-mart,
store brand packaging,
private label packaging,
business,
walmart,
store brand sustainability,
private label sustainability,
industry,
markets,
companies,
food and beverage,
|
|
|
German retailer Rewe’s new Pro Planet sustainability label will highlight the eco-friendly features of its existing store brands such as green manufacturing methods employed and responsible resource usage, according to a Planet Retail report.
The label will first be used in the produce depart
Read More...
Tags: business,
store brand sustainability,
grocery,
private label sustainability,
rewe,
private label eco-friendly products,
store brand eco-friendly products,
pro planet,
industry,
markets,
companies,
food and beverage,
|
|
|
Tetra Pak will supply more than 100 million Forest Stewardship Council labeled milk and fruit juice carton packages to Carrefour stores across France this year.
The supply agreement is seen as an important milestone in Tetra Pak’s global FSC deployment. In France, the company has set a goal o
Read More...
Tags: private label beverages,
store brand beverages,
business,
store brand sustainability,
carrefour,
grocery,
mass,
private label sustainability,
tetra pak,
forest stewardship council,
fsc,
industry,
markets,
companies,
food and beverage,
|
|
|
Safeway Inc. is the first U.S.-based retail grocery chain and manufacturer of private label merchandise to join The Sustainability Consortium, which engages in science-based work to create a more sustainable global supply chain.
The Pleasanton, Calif.-based grocer joins other retailers and consumer
Read More...
Tags: safeway,
private label trends,
store brand trends,
business,
private label supply chain,
store brand supply chain,
store brand sustainability,
grocery,
private label sustainability,
the sustainability consortium,
industry,
markets,
companies,
food and beverage,
|
|
|
Wal-Mart is reducing its carbon footprint by recycling the cardboard waste collected in its stores and converting it into boxes for its store brand take-and-bake pizza programs.
“We’ve totally and literally closed the loop using a retailer’s own boxes to go through a paper mill an
Read More...
Tags: wal-mart,
private label food,
store brand food,
business,
walmart,
grocery,
mass,
great vaue,
private label pizza,
store brand pizza,
private label recycling,
store brand recycling,
private label sustainability,
store band sustainability,
industry,
markets,
companies,
food and beverage,
|
