• Farmers Baffled By Monsanto's 4,550-word Use Instructions
    Dicamba can vaporize under certain conditions and the wind can blow it into nearby crops and other plants. The herbicide can damage or even kill crops that have not been genetically engineered to resist it. To prevent that from happening, Monsanto created a 4,550-word label with detailed instructions.
  • Poland Springs Denies Charges In Lawsuit
    A lawsuit claims that Poland Spring Water is deceiving consumers with evergreen labels that say their bottle contains "100 percent natural spring water" that hails from Maine. The class-action lawsuit filed in federal court in Connecticut claims that parent company Nestle Waters North America is bottling common groundwater that doesn't meet the federal definition of spring water.
  • How In-And-Out Burger, Nearing 70, Does It
    Today, In-N-Out Burger is one of the nation's top restaurant chains, a roughly 320-unit system with estimated annual sales over $600 million and, more impressive, a loyal legion of fans that speak about the brand in reverential terms. Celebrities gush over the place on social media; even Anthony Bourdain, foodie traveler extraordinaire, has declared it his favorite restaurant in Los Angeles.
  • 2 Urban Retailers Combine Forces
    Footprints of DTLR, formerly known as Downtown Locker Room, and Sneaker Villa are complementary, with little overlap. The merged company will be comprised of nearly 240 stores in 19 states and D.C., spanning the East Coast from New York to Florida, the Midwest, the Southeast and Texas.
  • Minding Own Business, Tiki Torches Caught Unawares
    The 60-year-old brand found itself in the middle of the Charlottesville confrontation as white supremacists marched holding the company's torches. Andrew D. Gilman, who has consulted with companies like Johnson & Johnson, General Motors and Pepsi during crises, described Tiki as essentially "minding its own business" when it found itself caught up in the Charlottesville demonstrations. "You hope that people are rational enough not to blame the innocent with the association that others are taking for it," Mr. Gilman said. "But you cannot sit back passively and let this happen."
  • Major Charities Pull Out Of President's Mar-a-Lago Club
    The American Cancer Society, the Cleveland Clinic, and the American Friends of Magen David Adom on Thursday decided to cancel events that were set to take place at Donald Trumps Palm Beach resort. The moves were a direct result of his comments on Charlottesville's racial unrest. The American Cancer Society has held events at the club since at least 2009. The American Friends raises money for Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross and was one of the resort's biggest events last season.
  • Target, Adidas Fans Push MLS Value to $4.5 Billion
    With new partnerships and a renewed $700 million deal with Adidas, the value of Major League Soccer and its clubs has hit a record $4.46 billion. Concurrently, the average MLS club is now worth $223 million, up 20% from last year, according to a new report from "Forbes." The most profitable MLS team is the Los Angeles Galaxy.
  • Move Over, U.S. Tech Giants; Make Room For Tencent, Alibaba
    The Chinese spend more money online than do Americans so it's no surprise that China's technology giants are thriving in the world's single-largest internet market with more than 700 million online users. Tencent and Alibaba are thriving in a population that is twice the size of the U.S. population.
  • Facebook, Amazon Get Most Social Media Love
    They were followed by eBay, Apple and Snap in NetBase's third annual "Top 100 Global Brand Love List." The NetBase report ranks the most loved brands in technology, retail, telecommunications and several other categories, along with the overall ranking. In the retail category, Best Buy came out on top, followed by Target, Walmart, Victoria's Secret and Sephora. McDonald's topped the food beverage category, followed by Starbucks.
  • Walmart, Amazon Battle Moves To Online Ads - For Others
    Walmart's already tapping into the same sort of cocktail that's made Amazon such a potentially formidable force in the ads world: a valuable trove of data on customer shopping habits. The big-box retailer is now also plugging in information collected on in-store sales to give advertisers a fuller picture of the customers they're targeting.
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