Organic food

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Central Market (Texas)

Central Market

Central Market is an American gourmet grocery store chain owned by H-E-B Grocery Company based in San Antonio, Texas. It specializes in high-quality, hard-to-find gourmet foods. Most locations also have a full-service kitchen, offer cooking and wine classes in their culinary school, and offer catering services. The chain has nine locations, all in Texas. Central Market was named "Outstanding Specialty Food Retailer" by Specialty Food Magazine and the National Association for Specialty Food Trade.

The original store opened in 1994 in the Central Park Shopping Center on North Lamar Boulevard in Austin, Texas, two years after its competitor Whole Foods went public. A popular following began immediately after the store opened. Many Texas foodies were attracted to the store's offerings and were willing to travel from other cities just to shop in the store. Beyond supplying hard-to-find products, Central Market's highly trained staff are knowledgeable about all things epicurean.

It was not long before H-E-B Grocery Company expanded the chain to Alamo Heights, Fort Worth, Dallas and Houston. The chain's second store opened in 1997 in a converted H-E-B on Broadway in the San Antonio area (in the Alamo Heights city limits). Two years later, a third store was opened on South Lamar in Austin. Fort Worth and Houston were introduced to the chain for the first time in 2001, with stores on West Freeway and Westheimer, respectively. Central Market's sixth and seventh stores opened in 2002 on East Lovers Lane in Dallas and Coit Road in Plano. Continuing its Dallas/Fort Worth area expansion, an eighth store opened at The Shops of Southlake in Southlake on December 6, 2006, and another store opened in the Preston Hollow neighborhood of Dallas on February 15, 2012.

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Bellamy's Organic

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Bloom Agro

Bloom Agro is an Indonesian social enterprise founded by Emily Sutanto. The company aims to promote sustainable agriculture and improve humanity. It is Indonesia's first organic and fair-trade rice producer and exporter.

Bloom Agro currently works with 2300 small-scale farmers in the Simpatik Farmers Association in Tasikmalaya, West Java, to export their rice that is grown organically with System of Rice Intensification (SRI) methods. Sutanto worked with the farmers to obtain international organic and fair trade certification through IMO and successfully lobbied to exempt specialty rice from Indonesia's rice export ban. She has also revolutionized the supply chain by empowering these farmers so that they do not have to rely on tengkulak anymore.

Within three years of founding Bloom Agro, Sutanto is exporting SRI organic rice including several traditional varieties, to Germany, Malaysia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and the United States.

After hearing about organic farming practices in Tasikmalaya, West Java, Sutanto took a trip to the region to see the farms. When she arrived, instead of finding well-structured agricultural practices, she met desperate farmers lost in the bureaucratic scuffle of organic certification and export regulations. The farmers are also trapped in endless poverty cycles as the rice market is dominated by unfair practices of tengulak (English: loan shark traders). Inspired by their plateaued dreams, Emily Sutanto decided to take on the challenge and initiates to be the project leader .

Bloom Agro focuses mostly on the export of fair-trade organic rice, its first innovation was the "Volkano Rice", a colorful proprietary blend of brown, pink, and red rice grown in volcanic soil which is rich in many essential minerals; this rice mix is graining popularity in USA and Europe.

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Bioeffector

A Bioeffector is a viable microorganism or active natural compound which directly or indirectly affects plant performance (Biofertilizer), and thus has the potential to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use in crop production.

Bioeffectors have a direct or indirect effect on plant performance by influencing the functional implementation or activation of biological mechanisms, particularly those interfering with soil-plant-microbe interactions. In contrast to conventional fertilizers and pesticides, the effectiveness of bioeffectors is not based on a substantial direct input of mineral plant nutrients, either in inorganic or organic forms.

Under the Acronym Biofector the European Union supports the Research of Bioeffectors under the leadership of the University of Hohenheim (Coordinator Guenter Neumann). The results of the project will be evaluated by the members of the Association Biostimulants in Agriculture (ABISTA) and provided agriculture for use and EU institutions for the legislative and registration procedures.

Other Biostimulants Organisations are European Biostimulant Industry Council, International Biocontrol Manufacturers' Association and Annual Biocontrol Industry Meeting.

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Annie's Homegrown

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Certified Naturally Grown

Certified Naturally Grown (CNG), "The Grassroots Alternative to Certified Organic", is a US-based farm assurance program certifying produce, and apiaries for organic producers who sell locally and directly to their customers. CNG was founded in 2002 by organic farmers Kate and Ron Khosla, as a simpler to administer and less expensive alternative to the USDA's National Organic Program (NOP) certification, using a production standard based on the NOP. It is operated as a non-profit corporation, headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

According to Ron Khosla, CNG was created as reaction to the legislating of organic production in the US in 2002:

Certified Naturally Grown farmers are required to submit to an annual inspection. and pay an annual fee. In contrast with the NOP, where inspections are conducted by a USDA-accredited certifying agency and third-party inspectors, CNG farms may be inspected by other CNG farmers, non-CNG farmers, extension agents, master gardeners and customers, with CNG farmers being ideal. Inspection procedures and forms can be perused and downloaded, and completed applications and signed declarations are available for public viewing, on the CNG web site. All CNG farms are subject to random pesticide residue testing.

CNG operates in the US and Canada. A United Kingdom sister organization, the Wholesome Food Association, promotes similar food production standards at the local, grassroots level, but does not operate a certification program.

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Choices Market

Choices Markets

Choices Markets is a Vancouver-based supermarket chain that is focused on natural and organic food.

The chain has twelve stores: eleven in metro Vancouver, including one rice bakery, and one location in Kelowna. Choices Market opened its 11th location, in North Vancouver, in late spring 2016. Choices was founded in December 1990 by brothers Wayne and Lloyd Lockhart. The owners emphasize that the store caters to a range of diets, including Gluten free, vegetarian and vegan. Lockhart cites this is a guiding principle for the chain: "It's all about providing choice.".

The company has relied on various techniques aimed at increasing customer loyalty in order to compete with larger chains in the area, such as providing customers with The Choices Preferred Shopper Card which allows customers to receive discounts on specially labelled products and accumulate points when they shop., providing an in-house nutritionist to help advise customers and worked to build energy and “theatre” in stores through product demos, food festivals and farmer/shopper interaction.

Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers inducted Choices Markets White Rock (South Surrey, B.C.) into the Hall of Fame in 2015. To be eligible for Hall of Fame induction, a store must win at least three Gold Awards or receive one Platinum Achievement Award and one Gold Award.

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Dancing Deer Baking Co.

Dancing Deer Baking Co

Dancing Deer Baking Co. is a Boston based bakery that sells kosher-certified cookies, brownies, cakes and baking mixes in the specialty/natural products, food service/travel/hospitality, business gifts and direct-to-consumer marketplaces. A variety of Dancing Deer products are also available in grocery chains and specialty food stores across the United States and certain parts of Canada, including nationally recognized Whole Foods Market.

The company is noted for producing all-natural, preservative-free products.

Dancing Deer was incorporated in 1994 by three founders, Suzanne Lombardi, a baker who originated many of Dancing Deer's recipes, Ayis Antoniou, a business strategist and Trish Karter, an artist and businesswoman.

The company started out in a former pizza parlor in West Roxbury, Massachusetts on a busy street corner with a couple of convection ovens. At that time, their specialty was cakes, sold primarily to cafes and restaurants. In 1996, they brought out a line of packaged consumer goods under the Dancing Deer label. The company reported revenues of more than $10 million by 2007.

In 2008, the company made a strategic decision to focus on growing the corporate gift portion of the business. Dancing deer has the ability to print the corporate logos on gift tins and boxes and cookies can be imprinted with corporate logos. Revenues from corporate gifts represented about 15% of annual revenues in 2008 and by late 2008 this was up to over 18%.

In September 2010, Karter stepped down from her role as CEO of the company to pursue a life outside of baking. Frank Carpenito became CEO in 2010 and left the position in July 2016.

The name for the company came from Lombardi's grandmother, Erma Shaw, who owned a gift shop and antique store named Dancing Deer in Bar Harbor, Maine. The company also borrowed recipes including the famous Deep Dark Gingerbread Cake.

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Earth Fare

Earth Fare is an American health and wellness supermarket with 36 locations in 9 states throughout the southeast and Midwest United States. It sells natural and organic food informed by a “Food Philosophy” and “Boot List”. All products are free of high fructose corn syrup, artificial fats, artificial trans fats, artificial colors, artificial flavors, artificial preservatives, artificial sweeteners, bleached or bromated flour, never administered antibiotics or added growth hormones.

Founded by Roger Derrough in 1975, the first store opened its doors in Asheville, North Carolina as “Dinner for the Earth”. Initially Dinner for the Earth offered organic dried bulk foods in wood barrels and wellness products on handmade shelves. Six years later the store expanded to a new location and began to offer responsibly-sourced meats and produce.

Dinner for the Earth became “Earth Fare” in 1994, after the team grew from a specialty store to a full-service store with expanded offerings of products, like craft beer and artisanal cheeses. This expansion was the catalyst for building a “healthy supermarket” accessible to everyone, which still informs the company’s present philosophy and expansion goals.

In addition to organic milk, Earth Fare sells grass-fed milk that is homogenized and is pasteurized to kill harmful bacteria while preserving vitamins and helpful enzymes. Meat and dairy products from grass-fed animals can produce 300-500% more conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) than those of cattle fed the usual diet of 50% hay and silage, and 50% grain.

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Answer 10

Eden Foods Inc.

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Corporation Founded 1968

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Eden Foods

Eden Foods, Inc., (also known as Eden Organic) is an organic food company in the United States. It is best known for its Edensoy line of organic soy milk, and its line of organic Japanese foods and condiments. The company claims to be the oldest independent organic food producer in the United States, and the largest supplier of organic dry grocery items.

Eden was founded in 1969 as a co-op grocery store in Ann Arbor, Michigan to continue the operations of a defunct macrobiotic food buying club. Originally incorporated as a nonprofit, it became a for-profit company in 1970. In 1972, the company began importing Japanese foods such as miso and soy sauce for both the retail and commercial markets. Many of Eden's Japanese foods are still sourced in Japan.

Most of Eden Food's products are organic, most are certified kosher, and all of Eden Foods' products are also vegan, except for their katsuo (Japanese fish flakes). Many of Eden's prepared foods are also gluten-free, and have therefore been recommended for those on a gluten-free or gluten-free casein-free (GFCF) diet

In 1997, an independent test by the New York Times looking for traces of GMOs in 11 soy and corn-based products found Eden's milk to be the only product that tested clean, a finding that Eden Foods attributed to their extensive certification and testing program.

In 2001, Eden shoyu soy sauce was rated highest for flavor by Cook's Illustrated in a comparison of 12 brands. In 2007, Eden's tamari was rated best out of seven brands tested in a comparison conducted by the San Francisco Chronicle for its "Taster's Choice" column.

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