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...that everything from carrots to ketchup bears some sort of "organic" label, what exactly does the designation mean? At the moment, not much--or at least not enough. But that's going to change in October, when the USDA implements four new levels of certification. Consider the label on a can of beef-vegetable soup...
...Food Supermarkets--a chain in the Oklahoma City, Okla., area--are fighting back with more organic dairy, meats and dry goods. Kroger, the nation's No. 2 grocer, has carved out "natural food" departments in nearly a third of its 2,400 stores and is expanding its private-label organic brand, which includes cereals and potato chips, with soy milks and pasta...
Wild Oats may have to play catch-up for a long time. Whole Foods' sales have risen more than 20% for 10 straight quarters, and the chain has 21 new stores in development and plans for a total of 400 by 2010. The firm is steadily building its private-label brands, from bottled water to organic macaroni and cheese...
...expert Jacques Berthomeau singled out the more refined AOC sector. "Beneath the shelter of our Appellations d'Origine Contrôlée hide a number of wines which are mediocre, if not unworthy of the appellation," wrote Berthomeau. Widely assumed to be a badge of quality, the aoc label guarantees little more than the place where a wine was produced. Quality controls introduced in 1974 are administered by growers themselves: 98% of wines submitted pass the test. "We've lost ?152 million in AOC exports," says Elodie Pasty of the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine: "We're going...
...newest trend in Europe's luxury department stores, and the menus are as cutting-edge as the fashions around them. Though designers like Armani, Courrèges, Ventillo, Lanvin, Barbara Bui and Nicole Farhi realized years ago that the chicest store accessory is a stylish café bearing your label, major retailers are just now choosing to create and run their own restaurants rather than depending on outside concessionaires. "It is a completely new era for restaurants and retail," says Jean Paul Barat, general manager of food operations at Selfridges. "Food is now a driving force for bringing customers into...