In today's FMI dailyLead, Matt Enis wrote an interesting article discussing the potential positive impacts of the new meat labeling laws, set to go in effect on March 1, 2012. Some of the positive impacts included increased beef sales and a more positive view of beef from the consumer perspective. Read the article at: http://supermarketnews.com/viewpoints/meat_labeling_laws_1128/ and let us know what you think.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Effective Date for Meat Nutrition Labeling Delayed
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety (USDA) and Inspection Service (FSIS) have recently announced that the effective date for the mandatory nutrition labeling requirements for single-ingredient and ground/chopped meat and poultry products in the USA has been delayed until March 1, 2012. The previous effective date was January 1, 2012.
The delayed effective date allows retailers more time to prepare for the upcoming legislation. ADC has been following this legislation closely since it was announced in December 2010. At that time, the FSIS mandated that the 40 most popular cuts of meat must have nutritional labeling on the pack or at the point of purchase. Additionally, single-ingredient ground meat must have the meat nutritional facts on the package.1
The nutrition facts panels are expected to include the number of calories and the grams of total fat and saturated fat a product contains. Additionally, any product that lists a lean percentage statement, such as "76%" lean on its label, will also list its fat percentage, which is intended to make it easier for consumers to understand the amounts of lean protein and fat in their purchase.
Looking for a Solution? ADC's InterStore.Net Fresh Item Management (FIM) suite of software provides readily available solutions to supermarket chains for the upcoming meat nutritional labeling requirements.
InterScale, ADC's brand-neutral scales management system, hosts nutrifacts to the barcode labeling scales in meat departments, regardless of manufacturer, from one centralized H.Q. system. InterScale supports different nutrifacts by vendor/supplier for the same item/PLU across stores. Nutrifacts information must be presented on labels in a rigorous and standardized format. InterScale now hosts these label formats to scales and printers from the major manufacturers, allowing the retailer large savings by avoiding expensive hands-on service calls by the scale provider.
The delayed effective date allows retailers more time to prepare for the upcoming legislation. ADC has been following this legislation closely since it was announced in December 2010. At that time, the FSIS mandated that the 40 most popular cuts of meat must have nutritional labeling on the pack or at the point of purchase. Additionally, single-ingredient ground meat must have the meat nutritional facts on the package.1
The nutrition facts panels are expected to include the number of calories and the grams of total fat and saturated fat a product contains. Additionally, any product that lists a lean percentage statement, such as "76%" lean on its label, will also list its fat percentage, which is intended to make it easier for consumers to understand the amounts of lean protein and fat in their purchase.
Looking for a Solution? ADC's InterStore.Net Fresh Item Management (FIM) suite of software provides readily available solutions to supermarket chains for the upcoming meat nutritional labeling requirements.
InterScale, ADC's brand-neutral scales management system, hosts nutrifacts to the barcode labeling scales in meat departments, regardless of manufacturer, from one centralized H.Q. system. InterScale supports different nutrifacts by vendor/supplier for the same item/PLU across stores. Nutrifacts information must be presented on labels in a rigorous and standardized format. InterScale now hosts these label formats to scales and printers from the major manufacturers, allowing the retailer large savings by avoiding expensive hands-on service calls by the scale provider.
NutriGen, ADC's Recipe Management software, calculates nutritional labeling information from a recipe's sub-recipes and raw ingredients, allowing InterScale to send this data to the in-store barcode labeling scales and label printers.
"ADC is continually working with our clients and the scale manufacturers to provide a solution that will exceed the mandate set forth by the FSIS for meat nutritional labeling," said Steve Loveridge, President of ADC. "Currently, we have some clients who are ahead of the legislation deadline by already hosting nutrifacts to their barcode labeling scales and providing this information on meat packages. We hope to see this number increase as the sunrise date approaches."
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
ADC Unveils New Product and Software Suite Logos
Recently, ADC unveiled our new product and software suite logos to ReFresh 2011 attendees and we’d like to share them on our blog as well. The InterStore.Net suite, InterScale Scales Manager and P-Cubed Production Manager (formerly Perishable Production Planner) logos were completely redesigned, while the NutriGen logo received minor edits for logo family consistency, but maintains most of its original design.
We regularly asses our branding to determine if any changes are needed to improve our product image and marketing message. This year, we decided to revamp our product logos, as the previous logos individually evolved over time. We wanted to create a family of logos that visually defined our products within their product suite.
The basis for the new logo designs came from the colors in ADC’s existing company logo designed to illustrate that our software is for all of the fresh areas in the grocery store: green for the fruits and vegetables in the produce department, light-orange for bread in the bakery and cheese in the deli departments and the deep red for the meat department.
Our new logos have a fresh, modern look to them, but still identify functional aspects of the software modules they represent. As the rebranding process evolved, we noticed that we needed to address the ‘P-Cubed Perishable Production Planning’ system name. The system now encompasses more modules than just Production Planning; therefore, it has been rebranded as the ‘P-Cubed In-Store Food Production’ system.”
Below is a comparison of the old and new logos, as well as the new overall suite logo. To see larger versions of each of the logos, please click here.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Another Great Day at ReFresh 2011!
Day two of ReFresh is ended and was another successful day. Our keynote speaker, Harold Lloyd, started the day with an entertaining and educational, presentation on “Merchandising Magic” or, as he more accurately described it as “Merchandising Logic.” Harold presented five key strategies to help increase the overall purchase total of customer’s in grocery stores. His presentation included visual examples from grocery stores, results from research he conducted over the past couple of years and a great deal of humor.
Following Harold’s presentation attendees started their second roundtable session, focused on NutriGen. Three roundtable chairs led discussions on their experiences with NutriGen, sharing their successes, challenges and implementation strategies.
After lunch, attendees enjoyed our third retailer presentation, which highlighted how ADC’s shrink management module can be used to receive increased tax deductions that boost your bottom line. The afternoon agenda, also included a partner presentation by BRdata and a presentation by Steve Loveridge, ADC President.
The day ended with a fresh food safety panel, moderated by Harold Lloyd. Four ADC retailers shared their company’s approach to handling fresh food safety and the current fresh food safety challenges that they face. Each retailer also shared their insights on what future challenges they foresee in food safety.
Our dinner on the beach was a great hit and the entertainment provided by ADC’s band was a huge success.
We’re looking forward to ReFresh 2012 and have already started the planning!
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