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Nutrisystem leverages Affinnovas innovation platform to identify four top contenders out of over 73 million marketing concepts.

Known as the Supermarket Guru, Phil Lempert can predict the future and then help businesses and consumers understand it. In a recent blog article, he called 2011 one of the most exciting and game-changing years in the food world. Using last year as a backdrop, Lempert provided his top 10 predictions for the food industry in 2012.

The executive brings more than 20 years of media and marketing experience, spent working on behalf of some of the world's biggest and most successful brands, including ESPN, Allstate and Starcom.

Helen of Troy's CEO expects to quickly integrate the PUR brands into its Healthcare/Home Environment segment. The category shares the segment's current customer base, target audience and product focus areas.

In addition, the companies entered into a long-term innovation partnership to collaborate on liquid coffee technology for the foodservice market.

Consumers have the choice of either purchasing Marcal Small Steps directly from Alice.com, marcal.alice.com or Marcal Small Steps Facebook page.

The Brookside product line is primarily sold in the U.S. and Canada, and annual net sales of the business are approximately $85 million Canadian dollars.