The Newbie’s Guide to Green Juice

Send to KindleTweet Green juice is all the rage and has been for many years. You’ve probably seen my post on my favorite package green juice brand from Oregon, which is available at Whole Foods, but here’s a way to segue from fruit smoothies to pure low-sugar green juice. I was playing around with a [...]

Agri Giants Team Up For Sustainable Sourcing

Send to KindleTweet Customers apparently can change the way big business operates. A handful of agricultural giants have inked a partnership to sustainably source coconut oil. BASF, Cargill and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have joined forces, alongside the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), who helped finance the initiative, which [...]

Weekly News: Starbucks, Fast Food Coffee, Adele + Beauty, Skincare M&A, & Sephora

Send to KindleTweet It’s all food and beauty here for the weekly roundup. First up, the food. Starbucks is adding Hazelnut Macchiato to its list of standard espresso drinks. Meanwhile after last year’s few acquisitions, the West Coast coffee giant is prepping to extend its loyalty card program to Teavana. The rollout would allow cardholders [...]

The Skinny on Evolution Juices

Send to KindleTweet I’m going to tell you a story about how a woman just spent $13 at Starbucks. It’s not hard. I was sucked in by the new offering of juices from Evolution Fresh, their new subsidiary, thanks to the $30 million acquisition in November 2011. I must confess I knew this wouldn’t hold [...]

Single by Choice, 2013 Diet Trends, Yoga Advice & Female Billionaires

Send to KindleTweet The New Year is on and so far it’s simultaneously eventful and dull — juggling people seems more work than one’s job. Facebook seems to have become the new email and hence it’s bloody boring. I now turn to Twitter for interesting bites – but what’s next? Food, sex and fashion – [...]

Method Boasts New Sustainable Packaging

Send to KindleTweet Cleaning product company Method recently launched a new product in the sustainable packaging sector – bottles made from a mix of plastic from the ocean and post-consumer recycled plastic. The limited-edition packaging was developed for a new Method product, a two-in-one hand and dish soap that is available only Whole Foods . “Our goal with [...]

Whole Foods Preps Boston Expansion

Send to KindleTweet Publicly-traded alternative grocery giant Whole Foods Market recently revealed that they have landed an agreement to buy six leases from Massachusetts-based family-owned grocery chain Johnnie’s Foodmaster. The deal is expected to close November 30, 2012, but all Johnnie’s Foodmaster location will close before the agreement is final. The six leases Whole Foods will acquire [...]

Dunkin’ Moves To Capture Bigger Breakfast Crowd

Send to KindleTweet It used to be that the household brands were fighting for our coffee dollars. Now they want us to buy breakfast too. The now publicly-traded Mass.-based Dunkin’ Donuts recently made two new moves to lure increasingly health-conscious consumers: 1) a change to the eggs they use and 2) a new addition to [...]

Whole Foods Heads Uptown

Send to KindleTweet Whole Foods Market recently announced the planned opening of two new Manhattan locations: Harlem and the Upper East Side (UES). The stores, which are in the works, build upon the other existing seven locations in NYC. The Harlem location, which is set to open in the summer of 2015, will be located [...]

Weekly Links: Haircare Developments, GMO Updates, & Big Box News

Send to KindleTweet Link love from this week and last – hipsters at hotels outside Manhattan (I know, brace yourself), Nordstrom may finally arrive on NYC soil, hair care innovations, GMO updates and more! L’Oreal apparently has some new hair cair ingredient dubbed neogenic that could possibly help improve hair density, according to Cosmetics Design. [...]

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