With the launch of its "Fresh Mountain Farms" brand cabbage, Boone, NC-based Hollar & Greene Produce is hoping to combat declining sales that bulk cabbage has experienced in recent years.

"Earlier this year we hired Golden Sun Marketing and challenged them to come up with a consumer-driven solution that will drive sales," Tim Greene, director of marketing for Hollar & Greene, said in a statement.

San Juan Bautista, CA-based Pride of San Juan has announced two new tender leaf products to its foodservice offerings.

The new products -- organic spring mix and organic baby spinach -- are PSJ's first products that are certified organic. The bulk products are available now. Organic spring mix is available in three-pound, 2x1.5-pound and 4x3-pound pillow pack cartons, while organic baby spinach is available in a four-pound pack.

In what should be a huge boost to the sales of corn-based resin packaging offered by NatureWorks PLA, Wal-Mart has announced plans to begin using some petroleum-free packaging product on Nov. 1, saving the equivalent of 800,000 gallons of gasoline over the next year.

The Dispute Resolution Corp., based in Ottawa, ON, has added a transportation membership category and is now accepting membership applications from carriers and transportation intermediaries, the agency announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON -- Twenty-nine cherry companies received warning letters from the Food & Drug Administration in October telling them to stop making unsupported claims about the powers of cherries to prevent and cure diseases on product labels and on their web sites.

The 29 companies that received the warnings were marketing dried fruit, fruit juice and juice concentrate as a means for treating or preventing of a variety of diseases, including cancer, heart disease and arthritis.

The Cape Ann Food Cooperative in Gloucester, MA, shut its doors after 31 years in business.

The retail end of the co-op's operations served 860 households in the Cape Ann area, offering natural and organic foods to its arts community clientele.

"The bottom line is we had been losing money - $154,000 - over the last 10 years," said Judy Parisella, interim general manager of the co-op. The membership voted to keep the co-op going despite the losses, but "that did not translate into green," she said.