Tony Roma’s Products Exclusively Sold In Walmart/Seiyu Across Japan Tokyo, Japan – October 3, 2018 – Broad Street Licensing Group, a world leading food & beverage brand licensing agency, announced that it has brokered a major retailer exclusive with Walmart Japan/Seiyu for client Tony Roma’s. The launch today in Tokyo will include Tony Roma’s classic […]
Continue reading this post ›After a two year absence, Broad Street Licensing Group‘s SVP of Business Development Bill Cross will be moderating another panel on the food biz at this year’s National Restaurant Show May 18th at Chicago’s McCormick Place. Entitled “The Grocerants Are Eating Your Lunch: How Grocery Stores, C-Stores, Drug Stores and Home Delivery Are Taking Away […]
Continue reading this post ›Unlike organic, no government regulations limit the use of the term “natural,” nor are there any guidelines for its use. That may all be changing: a “food label modernization bill” was introduced in September in Congress that would require the FDA to establish a standardized labeling protocol. While the bill has not been passed, food companies are acting to remove “all natural” designation on their own or because of lawsuits. Over 100 suits have been filed against products ranging from Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (which contains partially-hydrogenated oils or trans fats) to Beam, Inc.’s Skinnygirl alcoholic drinks. One of the thornier issues is whether GMOs (genetically-modified organisms) are natural or not. Judges this past Summer in cases against Gruma Corp.’s Mission tortilla chips and General Mills Inc. Nature Valley granola bars have delayed ruling until the FDA decides whether GMO foods can be marketed as “all natural.”
Continue reading this post ›Longtime readers of this blog know we have been predicting for months that Tesco would stanch the flow of red ink from its US subsidiary Fresh & Easy by getting out of the US. The parent company lost more than $1bn in a failed attempt to remake the American grocery market into c-stores on steroids. […]
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