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Newsletter

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
For several months, the AgPlus Network Newsletter has been published to provide you with the latest information and updates relative to your life in the produce industry. Because of your ongoing support and encouragement, we are pleased to announce the AgPlus Network’s steady growth in membership and advertisers. In addition to this exciting news, we would like to announce the partnership between the AgPlus Network and DMA Solutions, Inc. Acting as an extension of the AgPlus Network team, DMA Solutions, Inc. brings marketing, business development and strategic consulting expertise to AgPlus. Through this partnership, we look forward to continued success and broadened marketing communications in the produce industry regarding the benefits and value of the AgPlus Network.
FTC: Whole Foods Purchase of Wild Oats Would Lead To Higher Prices
The FTC says that the purchase of Wild Oats Markets by Whole Foods Market, would increase concentration of the country’s natural and organic supermarkets and lead to increased prices, The New York Times reports. The agency said June 5 that it planned to block the acquisition of Wild Oats, the second-largest natural-foods grocer after Whole Foods. “Consumers have benefited directly from the price and quality competition between Whole Foods and Wild Oats,” the agency said in a sealed lawsuit filed this week, portions of which were released yesterday. “If the acquisition occurs, those benefits will be lost.”
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Source: Environmentalleader.com
Harold Thinks! Back when all the oil companies were merging I thought that the FTC should step in and stop those mergers. They didn’t see it my way and now look at the price of gas at the pump. I was pleasantly surprised when the old AT&T was broken into seven Baby Bells by the federal courts. Now each time there is a Bell merger I wonder why the FTC is allowing them. For those of you who don’t keep track, there are only two of the original seven Baby Bells left. I was surprised they allowed all those mergers. The news industry has been taken over by big news companies with more mergers on the way. A diverse news media is in our national interest but no effort has been made to stop these mergers. I don’t understand their logic in stopping the merger between Whole Foods and Wild Oats. Almost every week you read about another Grocery Chain expanding into organics. The competition in that sector is growing fast and with major players entering the market and even if they combined they will have to work very hard to compete. It doesn’t make sense to me. What do you think?
Going Natural: Hannaford Bros. Aims to capitalize on rapidly growing demand for organic foods
  STEVE ADAMS
The Patriot Ledger

Mention organic groceries, and Whole Foods Market is one of the first names that pops into shoppers’ minds. Now Hannaford Bros. wants to be thought of in the same light.
The Scarborough, Maine-based supermarket chain now carries at least 1,400 organic products at each of its 159 New England stores, including 90 new organic items added this month. And it recently became the region’s first conventional supermarket chain to become certified as an organic retailer by a leading monitoring group.
‘‘It’s also an opportunity for them to go after the Whole Foods customer that is serious about organics,’’ said Kevin Griffin, publisher of the Griffin Report of Food Marketing in Duxbury

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Source: The Patriot Ledger
  Harold Thinks! I couldn’t help but chuckle as yet another company jumps into the organic business. The FTC should take another look at their decision because Whole Foods is not going to be alone. Every major chain is getting into the business. In the end, the success of Whole Foods will not be that they cornered the market on organics but they have a plan, run their company efficiently and stay one step ahead of the competition that is growing every day.
Five Good Produce News Stories

If you don't get enough reading from my newsletter visit  www.agplus.net.  We post 5 produce related news stories each day. Below is a list of today's top stories.

America's great drought
Avocado market feeling the heat
Add a healthier dose of food to farm bill
Web sites track produce from the fields
Ag and emissions: Grow crops or suburbs?

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