JC Penney has appealed a New York state court ruling that found it had interfered with a contract between Macy's and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. by selling the celebrity's home goods, according to a filing. Macy's sued JC Penney in 2012 for breaching a deal that guaranteed exclusive rights to sell cookware, bedding and bath products from Martha Stewart Living.

The numbers are daunting: 54 separate recalls in just six months impacting nearly 26 million vehicles sold in the U.S., nearly 29 million worldwide. For General Motors that works out to one separate recall nearly every three days.

The Maine Lobster Marketing Collaborative is hoping to boost crustacean consumption as harvests are reaching record levels. The group is enlisting chefs as ambassadors. It starts with Boston chef and restaurateur Barbara Lynch, who will make lobster rolls for over 1,000 guests of the U.S. Embassy in Japan. Then, in the fall, there will be new content on the website of the Culinary Institute of America.

Italian jewelry brand Schield's fall campaign, "Disorder Sisters," features images that seem to glamorize bulimia. Shot by Diego Diaz Marin, they show one model sticking her fingers down another model's throat. "[It's a] disturbing story that tells a dark report between two sisters," the company said in press statement. Marin denied that they had anything to do with eating disorders.

British model Cara Delevingne, the new face of sustainable jewelry brand John Hardy, has wrapped an ad shoot in Bali to support the brand, which is inspired by traditional Indonesian craft techniques. The final Hardy campaign images are expected to land in October. The ads are shot by John Hardy's creative director, David Lipman.

Brynwood Partners has bought Nestl USA brand Juicy Juice in a multimillion-dollar deal and reportedly insists the brand can still be hugely successful in a troubled juice category out of which the Swiss multinational has jumped. Sales for the brand, which launched in 1977, have fallen from $500 million seven years ago to about $275 million. The category declined 3% between 2011 and 2013.

General Motors isn't all alone. Chrysler Group has expanded its own ignition switch recall by nearly 700,000 vehicles following an investigation by U.S. safety regulators. The company says it will recall an additional 695,957 units of the Chrysler Town and Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans and Dodge Journey crossovers from the 2008-10 model years because of ignition switches that may slip from the "run" to "accessory" mode, shutting off the engine.

Bayer HealthCare and HealthyWomen have launched "Family Size Matters," an initiative to help educate women who think they may be done having children on birth control and family planning. The collaboration did a survey of 1,000 women between 25 to 45 years of age in committed relationships, who are done having children. They found that as many as 35% reported having a pregnancy scare.

There is a new symbol coming to foods and packaged goods: a small, circular icon indicating that the company behind the product is owned by women. The new logo is the work of two nonprofits and Walmart, which, starting in September, will sell products from lingerie to salsa bearing the stamp. The retail giant pledged in 2011 to source $20 billion worth of goods from U.S. women-owned businesses by 2016.

Cosmetics company L'Oreal USA Inc. will settle Federal Trade Commission charges of deceptive advertising for some of its anti-aging products. According to the FTC's complaint, L'Oreal made false and unsubstantiated claims that its Genifique and Youth Code products provided anti-aging benefits by targeting users' genes. In bilingual ads the company touted its Genifique products as "clinically proven" to "boost genes' activity. The company said Youth Code was the "new era of skincare: gene science."