Consumer Affairs & Relations

Jones Apparel Group Inc. receives an unsolicited non-binding proposal from Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., a Japan-based company, to acquire the company's wholly owned subsidiary Barneys New York Inc. for $900 million in cash.

CGT chats with Tony Costa, Senior Vice President/CIO of Bumble Bee Foods, LLC.

Harman International signs a warehousing and distribution management contract to manage two distribution centers.

In May 2007, The Hershey Company announced that John C. Long is named Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility. Long will report to Thomas K. Hernquist, senior vice president, global chief growth officer.

Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. announces that its board of directors elects Neil S. Fiske as the company's new president and chief executive officer.

In response to broadscale consumer demand, Tyson Foods Inc. is now producing all of its Tyson brand fresh chicken from birds "Raised Without Antibiotics."

Cutter & Buck Inc. closes the previously announced transaction with New Wave Group AB.

Kellogg Company is undertaking two major initiatives that further strengthen its commitment to meeting consumers' health and nutrition needs by adjusting what and how the company markets to children and through new front- of-pack nutrition labeling.