Hormel Foods Corp.’s fiscal fourth-quarter profit slipped 3% as weak sales and higher ingredient costs hurt the maker of Spam, Dinty Moore stew and other packaged food brands.
Sartori Company announced today that it will be releasing a very limited quantity of its Limited Edition Cognac BellaVitano for the 2011 holiday season.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Oct. 12 estimated 2011 U.S. peanut production at 3,628 million lbs, down 13% from 4,157 million lbs last year. Peanut butter manufacturers have announced price increases this year, because of the rising cost of peanuts.
West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw wants federal regulators to take a tougher stance against the marketers of the Four Loko brand of alcoholic beverages.
There is no free lunch, they say. But for now, at least, a glass of water is free when people go out to eat, and, increasingly, water is all they are drinking.
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