Clif Bar & Company Becomes 20 Percent Employee-Owned

"BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clif Bar & Company, the leading maker of all-natural and organic food and performance nutrition for athletes, is pleased to announce the selling of family-owned common stock to its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). Employees through the ESOP own 20 percent of the company, while husband and wife owners -- Gary Erickson and Kit Crawford -- retain the remaining 80 percent.

“All along we wanted to create a company where we would want to work,” said Crawford, Clif Bar & Company’s co-CEO. “Employee ownership is one more way we could run a different kind of business: one that inspires a team of people to make the kind of delicious, nutritious food we’d like to eat, and that strives for a healthier, more sustainable world.”"

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Melvita - France’s #1 Organic Beauty Brand - Opens Its Third U.S. Retail Store: 25 Years of Expertise in Organic Beauty Comes to Southern California

"New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 29, 2010 -- Melvita is pleased to announce the opening of its third U.S. retail space on June 30, 2010 at Fashion Island in Newport Beach, California. For more than 25 years, Melvita has been a pioneer in organic beauty and an industry leader in ecological beauty manufacturing. Now, Newport Beach will be able to experience first-hand this extensive line of ECOCERT-certified organic products for the whole family. Melvita makes everyday organic living achievable with its wide range of skin, hair and personal care products, food supplements, and honey."

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Tropical Foods Re-Introduces York’s Harvest, Organic Acres, Now with Corn-Based Packagin

"CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tropical Foods, a food manufacturer that specializes in raw and roasted nuts, dried fruit and snack mixes, has re-launched their popular organic line, Organic Acres, with new corn-based packaging.

Organic Acres contains five organic mixes, specially blended to provide a naturally nutritious snack. The line also contains dried fruits and both raw and roasted/salted nuts. Products are available in bulk or a new corn-based retail package. Tropical Foods has seen success with the line with the new packaging and the re-sealable, portable organic snacks."

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What's Organic About Organic, A Film on an Important Topic

"What’s Organic About Organic asks what the implications of growing food organically or not actually are. This hour-long film covers a lot of ground. Its short length and breadth of issues make this movie a good discussion-starter amongst peers, family, and friends. Watching What’s Organic About Organic left me with a sense that we don’t necessarily know the whole story about conventionally grown food or the benefits of organic, it made me want to learn more and be a more educated consumer."

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Fresh Harvest Announces New Distributor and New Distribution Territory

"NEW YORK, NY, Jun 24, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. (FRHV 0.03, -.00, -3.85%) , a developer and marketer of natural and organic products, is pleased to announce that after an extensive search it has chosen a new distributor and is expanding into a new territory for its Wings of Nature(TM) bars.

The company will be selling and merchandising its Wings of Nature bars through a leading distributor of convenience products in the Northwest and one of the nation's top 25 convenience distributors. Their customers include: convenience stores, drug stores, grocery stores and restaurants. They provide full-service grocery distribution to more than 2,000 customers and their distribution map extends throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Northern California."

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Organic wheat farming receives govt backing, attracts growers

"Chandigarh: Over 11,000 acres of land has been brought under organic farming in Punjab and Haryana under a scheme sponsored by the Union Government. While 6,050 acres has so far come under organic farming in Punjab, Haryana too is not lagging behind as 5,000 acre has been brought under organic farming.

To promote organic farming in Punjab and Haryana, farmers are being provided technological inputs including training and farm-level advisory services according to standards set by the National Programme for Organic Production (NPOP), National Organic Programme (NOP) and the European Union (EU) for organic farming."

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How Sustainable is Big Organic?

"Organic has gotten big. Really big. So much so that most of the organic food available in the supermarket is now owned by companies you might not expect to represent organic, like Cargill, Heinz/Hain, Kraft, Kellog, Dean, and General Mills. All those familiar organic food brand names: Muir Glen, Cascadian Farm, Odwalla, Kashi, Dagoba chocolate, and so on, are owned by some of the largest food processors in the country, whose other product lines don't exactly jive with organic principles. The question is, is big organic good, or not so good? And what does it mean for small organic food producers?"

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