Better Days

Full bellies, fuller hearts: Kellanova and Albertsons Companies Foundation show love to the communities they serve

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Mercoledì, Febbraio 14, 2024
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CHICAGO, Feb. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth year in a row, Kellanova and Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, are teaming up to show love to the communities they serve and address the ongoing issue of hunger and food insecurity.

Key Points: 
  • Kellanova is donating $50,000 to Albertsons Cos. Foundation's Nourishing Neighbors charitable program benefiting the hunger-relief efforts of food banks, pantries and hunger-relief charities in communities served by the Albertsons Cos. family of stores including Safeway, Albertsons, Vons, ACME and Shaw's.
  • "Our customers are some of our strongest allies in our efforts to fulfil our Better Days Promise to tackle sustainable and equitable access to food."
  • Food insecurity exists in every county in the United States, affecting more than 44 million people, including 13 million children.
  • Kellanova's donation is part of its Kellanova Better Days™ Promise social and environmental strategy, which aims to create #BetterDays for 4 billion people by 2030.

REMY Robotics launches in the United States radically transforming restaurants by making high quality healthy food affordable and accessible

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Giovedì, Novembre 9, 2023
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NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the past two years, secret kitchen laboratories staffed entirely by robots have been cooking gourmet meals for customers in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, and New York City. The robotic chefs, operating out of both retail and CloudKitchens locations are the brainchild of entrepreneur and engineer Yegór Traiman. Five years ago, Traiman founded Remy Robotics with the vision of making high quality, healthy food accessible and affordable to everyone. After years of meticulous testing behind closed doors, the robots are now ready to demonstrate their capabilities to deliver what was previously thought impossible, perfectly cooking complex dishes like salmon teriyaki, citrus chicken, and beautifully prepared vegetables like turmeric cauliflower, string beans, and miso buttered corn. With its US launch, Remy Robotics is also unveiling its first-ever robot restaurant brand Better Days, a fast-fine concept offering pricing and convenience comparable to fast food with the quality and taste of a full service restaurant. 

Key Points: 
  • Five years ago, Traiman founded Remy Robotics with the vision of making high quality, healthy food accessible and affordable to everyone.
  • Remy Robotics emerges from stealth in NYC after secretly serving over 100,000 meals to customers with 4.7 star ratings.
  • Just as McDonald's applied the industrial assembly line to revolutionize the industry and create the trillion dollar fast food segment, Remy Robotics harnesses the power of AI, robotics, and culinary engineering to make high quality healthy food accessible and affordable.
  • Remy's technology makes it possible to produce high quality food at scale in a way previously thought impossible.

Dollar General and Kellogg Company Partner for Third Year to Donate 60,000 Books

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Martedì, Maggio 2, 2023
Primary, Secondary, Education, Supermarket, Discount, Variety, Philanthropy, Food, Beverage, Convenience Store, Retail, Fund Raising, Foundation, Other Education, Learning, Partnership, Newsroom, Better Days, Kellogg's, Literacy, NYSE, Student, Reading, Book, Sales

For the third consecutive year, Dollar General (NYSE: DG) plans to partner with Kellogg Company and donate more than 60,000 new books to local elementary schools in celebration of new DG store openings in fiscal 2023.

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  • For the third consecutive year, Dollar General (NYSE: DG) plans to partner with Kellogg Company and donate more than 60,000 new books to local elementary schools in celebration of new DG store openings in fiscal 2023.
  • Since the partnership began in 2021, school libraries and students across the country have received more than 160,000 books.
  • “With each new Dollar General store opening, we remain committed to being a good neighbor by investing in communities’ literacy and education programs,” said Denine Torr, Dollar General’s vice president of corporate social responsibility and philanthropy.
  • With the belief everyone deserves an equal opportunity to receive a basic education, the Dollar General Literacy Foundation has invested in literacy programs increasing access, enhancing the quality of instruction and inspiring and advancing innovation.

Kellogg Company moves closer to achieving equity, diversity and inclusion goals

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Lunedì, Aprile 10, 2023
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich., April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kellogg Company is on track to achieve its 2025 goals for equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I), reporting improvements across the board in its key gender and racial representation metrics.

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  • BATTLE CREEK, Mich., April 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kellogg Company is on track to achieve its 2025 goals for equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I), reporting improvements across the board in its key gender and racial representation metrics.
  • Overall, the company saw an increase in representation of female and racially underrepresented talent in all employee categories.
  • "One of the ways we are achieving our Kellogg's Better Days Promise is by ensuring equity, diversity and inclusion in our own workforce," said Kellogg Company's Chief Diversity Officer, Samantha Thomas-Berry.
  • Kellogg continued to be recognized for its commitment to diversity in 2022; it was named in the prestigious DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list for the 10th consecutive year.

Kellogg Co. donates $75,000 to Albertsons Companies Foundation's Nourishing Neighbors Initiative

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Lunedì, Febbraio 27, 2023
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Feb. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kellogg Company and Albertsons Companies, one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, have joined forces for the third consecutive year to tackle the ongoing issue of hunger in the communities they serve.

Key Points: 
  • Kellogg has donated $75,000 to Albertsons Companies Foundation's Nourishing Neighbors Initiative, a charitable program of the Albertsons Companies Foundation benefiting the hunger-relief efforts of food banks, pantries and hunger-relief charities in communities served by the Albertsons Cos. family of stores.
  • We are proud to partner with Albertsons for the third consecutive year, creating a difference for families by providing approximately 300,000 meals," said Michael Ross, Customer Team Lead, Kellogg Company.
  • Food insecurity exists in every county in the United States2, affecting more than 34 million people2, including 9 million children2.
  • Since 2015, Kellogg has fed more than 219 million people facing hunger and reached more than 4.3 million children through feeding programs.

Canadian Folk Music Awards Nominee Alex Krawczyk Continues Healing Journey with New Release, "A Song for You"

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Giovedì, Gennaio 26, 2023
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TORONTO, Jan. 26, 2023 /CNW/ - Toronto-based Alex Krawczyk is known at home and abroad for her chart-topping hits, "There Will be Light," "Better Days," and "Turning."

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  • TORONTO, Jan. 26, 2023 /CNW/ - Toronto-based Alex Krawczyk is known at home and abroad for her chart-topping hits, "There Will be Light," "Better Days," and "Turning."
  • The album earned Alex a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2023 Canadian Folk Music Awards.
  • Canadian Folk Music Awards Nominee Alex Krawczyk Continues Healing Journey with New Release, "A Song for You"
    Written by Krawczyk and producer Robbie Roth, the moving and emotional new single was released on January 25th, 2023 on MTS Records.
  • Through her music, Alex strives to create an emotional discourse that beckons her listeners to contemplate different aspects of life.

Kellogg Company's Vitamin D Petition Accepted by FDA

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Lunedì, Gennaio 9, 2023
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a petition from Kellogg Company, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced increases to the fortification levels of Vitamin D allowed within the cereal category and now allows fortification of Vitamin D in grain-based bars.

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  • BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Jan. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a petition from Kellogg Company, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced increases to the fortification levels of Vitamin D allowed within the cereal category and now allows fortification of Vitamin D in grain-based bars.
  • Seeing an opportunity to help improve public health through food, Kellogg petitioned the FDA to review fortification regulations for cereals and grain-based bars with Vitamin D, a nutrient of concern among Americans.
  • "Kellogg fortified cereals and milk have long been a delicious and affordable way to get Vitamin D," says Nigel Hughes, Kellogg Company's SVP, Global R&D and Innovation.
  • In addition to fortifying foods with Vitamin D, Kellogg is also innovating new foods leveraging inherent sources of the nutrient.

Tastemade and Kellogg's Announce Winner of Corn Flakes Holiday Cookie Sleigh Competition

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Giovedì, Dicembre 15, 2022
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SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern media company Tastemade and Kellogg's Corn Flakes® today announced the winner of their inaugural Holiday Cookie Sleigh Competition. The competition was a part of their latest campaign designed to empower the baker in us all called Tastemade x Kellogg's Corn Flakes® - Baking a Difference, a fun multi-platform content campaign that inspired creative holiday baking while supporting a local community.

Key Points: 
  • SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Modern media company Tastemade and Kellogg's Corn Flakestoday announced the winner of their inaugural Holiday Cookie Sleigh Competition.
  • Five bakeries from across the country competed to create their best holiday cookie using Kellogg's Corn Flakesin the Corn Flakes Holiday Cookie Sleigh competition.
  • Al Hawes, Head of Partner Experience and Operations at Tastemadesaid, "We are so excited to partner with Kellogg's on this fun competition highlighting Corn Flakes as a holiday baking staple.
  • We are excited to partner with Tastemade to share the joy that Kellogg's Corn Flakes can bring to holiday baking traditions."

Kellogg empowers blind consumers in U.S. with NaviLens technology on packaging

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Mercoledì, Dicembre 14, 2022
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kellogg Company is changing the way the almost 12 million adults in the U.S. who are blind or have low vision* perform daily tasks, such as navigating a grocery store aisle or choosing one's cereal at breakfast. To help create a place at the table, Kellogg is incorporating innovative NaviLens technology into the packaging of four of its iconic cereal brands: Kellogg's Corn Flakes®, Special K Original®, Rice Krispies® and Crispix®.

Key Points: 
  • To help create a place at the table, Kellogg is incorporating innovative NaviLens technology into the packaging of four of its iconic cereal brands: Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Special K Original, Rice Krispies and Crispix.
  • "The heart of Kellogg's Better Days Promise ESG strategy is the advancement of sustainable and equitable access to food.
  • In addition to the cereal packaging, Kellogg has committed to incorporating NaviLens codes in all corporate facilities in the U.S. by the end of 2023, to make them more accessible and easier to navigate for blind and low-vision employees.
  • NaviLens is created by Neosistec, in collaboration with the Mobile Vision Research Lab at the University of Alicante.

Tony the Tiger® is Hitting it Out of the Park in Missouri to Give More Middle School Kids Better Access to Sports

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Mercoledì, Dicembre 14, 2022
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BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Tony the Tiger® and Kellogg's Frosted Flakes® Mission Tiger™ are lacing up in Missouri to help sports programs at local middle schools. Mission Tiger is making game-changing donations through education nonprofit DonorsChoose to help Momentum Academy of St. Louis, Missouri; Valley Middle School of House Springs, Missouri; and other neighboring schools give students what they need to play like tigers.

Key Points: 
  • Tony the Tiger is stopping by Momentum Academy and Valley Middle School to surprise students and coaches with Mission Tiger donations to help their middle school sports programs continue to thrive.
  • Valley Middle School will receive fitness and training equipment for all their students to use and bolster their newly funded after-school sports programs.
  • In addition to donations to Momentum Academy and Valley Middle School, Mission Tiger funded all existing middle school projects on DonorsChoose in Missouri, helping even more kids in the state have better access to sports.
  • "We always encourage our students to work hard, both in the classroom and in their athletic pursuits," said Coach Jessica Young at Valley Middle School.