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Whole Foods Market launches the first in-store color-coded sustainability-rating program for wild-caught seafood.

Whole Foods Market announces it has implemented new responsible packaging guidelines for all of its more than 2,100 body care and supplement suppliers companywide.

Packaged Facts estimates private label food and beverage dollar sales totaled $87 billion in 2009. Here's why specialty food retailers, like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, enjoyed greater growth in store brand product sales between 2005 and 2009 than traditional supermarkets.

The 2009 Consumer Goods Sales and Marketing Summit came to a close Wednesday afternoon, leaving the almost 200 consumer goods executives in attendance with a little more insight into customer-facing trends and topics.

The retailer's suppliers and vendors are now able to view sales data for their specific product lines through a MicroStrategy-based application.

In the highly-competitive consumer goods market, the success of a new product among consumers is the result of something much bigger than just a bright idea. This year, CGT recognizes Kraft Foods Inc. and Nintendo, among other deserving consumer goods companies, for excellence in innovation.

On September 24-26, 2008, senior-level consumer goods executives united for the third annual Consumer Goods Growth & Innovation Forum. There, they heard from Procter & Gamble, Church & Dwight, Avon and Kraft, among others, on how to cultivate a true culture of innovation.

The nominations have been made, the votes tallied and the winners decided. Find out which consumer goods companies took home top honors in the award categories of Most Innovative Company and Most Innovative Product.