Heineken USA is expanding its beer offers in the US with the creation of a new venture that will put more focus on its global brands. The venture, dubbed Five Points Trading Company, will launch Jan. 1. It intends to incubate a range of popular global beers in the U.S. including Tiger, Birra Moretti, Affligem, Murphy's Stout, Prestige, Sagres and Mort Subite.

Researchers believe they have uncovered a decades-old effort by the sugar industry to exonerate sugar as a dietary culprit for heart disease and shift the blame onto fat and cholesterol. The researchers reveal a scheme in which the sugar industry's main trade group paid two Harvard scientists to conduct a literature review in the mid-1960s.

A crowd waits to see an exhibit about fast-food ingredients such as beakers of powders and liquids that purportedly go into what is meant to look like a McDonald's burger. Just below are leaves and spices that Chipotle says make up its burrito. Chipotle's "Cultivate" festivals encapsulate the food industry's hottest marketing trend: crusading against Big Food.

Fresh Step Litter debuted its "Hot to Adopt" campaign during Fashion Week in New York, which is aimed at eliminating barriers to cat adoption. Actress and cat lover Katie Cassidy partnered with Fresh Step to bring felines and fashion together on the catwalk to turn the cat lady stigma upside down at the Fresh Step Feline Fashion Lounge and Adoption Event.

Ford is leaving Sony, its longtime audio partner, in favor of the high-end B&O Play sound system across its lineup. The car maker made the announcement to exclusively go with the Harman brand at the "Further with Ford" trend conference. B&O Play will start appearing in new Ford vehicles next year. The deal is exclusive to Ford.

People wore sneakers before 1985. But the release of the original black and red Air Jordan 1 that year changed the way sneakers would be consumed, viewed and marketed from then on out. Their namesake, Michael Jordan, then a rookie for the Chicago Bulls, would go on to become the best basketball player ever, and his sneakers would both create sneaker culture and dominate it for years to come.

Chipotle Mexican Grill settled nearly 100 legal cases brought by customers sickened in last year's food-borne illness outbreak. Terms were not disclosed. Except for one: One client asked for "free-burrito" coupons as part of her settlement. The cases were a mix of customers sickened from the E. coli, salmonella and norovirus outbreaks in cities nationwide.

Food prices are down at supermarkets across the country, which is good news for shoppers, but is denting profits and sales for retailers. Downtown Cincinnati-based Kroger Co. blames lower prices for denting its second quarter profits, as well as forcing it to lower financial projections for the rest of the year.

Students earn points that can be redeemed for discounts when they use the app to lock their phones while on campus. And while Pocket Points can't guarantee students aren't distracting themselves with their laptops instead of their phones, it does make an effort to make sure it's rewarding phone-free class or library time.

The company provided the first public demonstration of the fleet of self-driving cars it is building at its sprawling engineering campus near Detroit. Ford allowed reporters to take a ride in some of the 10 white Fusion sedans it has outfitted so far with radar; lidar, a kind of radar based on laser beams; cameras; computer chips and other gear.