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Rainbow Grocery Notice of Data Breach

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Thursday, May 18, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rainbow Grocery is issuing notice of a data privacy event that may impact the confidentiality of personal information for a limited number of individuals who shopped at Rainbow Grocery between February 10 and February 26, 2023, and paid by swiping a payment card on one of its PIN pads.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rainbow Grocery is issuing notice of a data privacy event that may impact the confidentiality of personal information for a limited number of individuals who shopped at Rainbow Grocery between February 10 and February 26, 2023, and paid by swiping a payment card on one of its PIN pads.
  • Rainbow Grocery also notified Federal law enforcement and worked expeditiously to provide notice to affected individuals.
  • Rainbow Grocery is notifying potentially affected individuals by this media notice and by electronically mailing letters directly to potentially affected individuals.
  • Rainbow Grocery is also notifying certain state regulators, where required, and posting a notice regarding this incident on its website.

Founders of Honest Tea® Return to Bottled Tea Business with Launch of Just Ice Tea Set to Hit Shelves Nationwide Beginning September 2022

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today co-founders of Honest Tea Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff are pleased to announce their return to the bottled tea business alongside celebrity Chef Spike Mendelsohn with the launch of Just Ice Tea™, a ready-to-drink organic iced tea brand focused on sourcing simple ingredients and Fair Trade Certified® teas and sweeteners. The organic tea line will hit shelves nationwide beginning September 2022 and is the latest addition to Eat the Change, the planet-friendly snack (and now beverage) company founded by Goldman and Mendelsohn in 2020.

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  • The news for Eat the Change's expansion into the bottle tea space follows Coca-Cola's May 2022 announcement that it would discontinue Honest Tea this fall.
  • Honest Tea was the first bottled tea brand to offer organic (1999) and Fair Trade certified varieties (2003).
  • Honest Tea fans will recognize new renditions of crowd favorites with Just Ice Tea.
  • Just Ice Tea will be distributed nationwide and begins to hit shelves September 2022.

UNFI and NCG Extend and Expand Relationship

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Monday, June 29, 2020
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United Natural Foods, Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) ("UNFI") and National Co+op Grocers (NCG) today announced they have reached a long-term supply agreement extension for UNFI to continue as the primary grocery wholesaler and national distributor to NCG-affiliated retail food co-ops.

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  • United Natural Foods, Inc. (NYSE: UNFI) ("UNFI") and National Co+op Grocers (NCG) today announced they have reached a long-term supply agreement extension for UNFI to continue as the primary grocery wholesaler and national distributor to NCG-affiliated retail food co-ops.
  • We have a strong history and relationship with NCG and are thrilled they are part of our UNFI customer family.
  • UNFI and NCG have worked together since NCGs inception in 1999, with UNFI primarily supplying NCG member co-ops with a wide variety of natural products.
  • NCG is a winner of the dotCoop Global Awards for Cooperative Excellence and a certified B Corp. Find a map of NCG member co-ops.

Sollio Cooperative Group highlighted the agricultural succession on the occasion of La Coop's Establishment and Farm Transfer Award

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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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Sollio Cooperative Group encourages the next generation in agriculture through an award, highlighting the course of families who have successfully planned their farm transfers or started their agricultural and agrifood business.

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  • Sollio Cooperative Group encourages the next generation in agriculture through an award, highlighting the course of families who have successfully planned their farm transfers or started their agricultural and agrifood business.
  • Sollio Cooperative Group is innovating with the next edition by opening the competition to agricultural businesses in Ontario, through Agromart, Agrico and affiliated partners of Sollio Agriculture, our agricultural division.
  • The Sollio Group Cooperative Farm Establishment and Transfer Award highlights families and entrepreneurs who have successfully transferred a farm or started an agricultural or agrifood business.
  • Founded in 1922, Sollio Cooperative Group is one of the largest agri-food enterprises in Quebec, the only pan-Canadian agricultural supply cooperative and the 27th largest agri-food cooperative in the world.

Sollio Cooperative Group continues to grow

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Thursday, February 27, 2020
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"In terms of financial results, the cooperative recorded its fourth best year in its nearly 100-year history," said Gatan Desroches, Chief Executive Officer of Sollio Cooperative Group.

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  • "In terms of financial results, the cooperative recorded its fourth best year in its nearly 100-year history," said Gatan Desroches, Chief Executive Officer of Sollio Cooperative Group.
  • This year, Sollio Cooperative Group also had the pleasure of welcoming 60 new independent BMR retailers, who will now be able to reap the benefits of the cooperative model.
  • "As we approach our 100th anniversary, Sollio Cooperative Group strives to continue building a solid, prosperous and agile cooperative network guided by its values."
  • Founded in 1922, Sollio Cooperative Group is one of the largest agri-food enterprises in Quebec, the only pan-Canadian agricultural supply cooperative and the 27th largest agri-food cooperative in the world.