"This is Bob taking care of us."

ericb — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:45:20 -0800

"In his 81 years, Bob Moore has built a mini empire with his health food company, Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods. During his recent birthday celebration, he told his dedicated employees that he's passing the torch and ownership of his multimillion dollar business to them." "[H]is 209 employees now own the place and its 400 offerings of stone-ground flours, cereals and bread mixes." "Moore said he's gotten countless buy-out offers over the years, but he couldn't envision selling the business to a stranger....'I don't think there's anybody worthy to run this company but the people who built it. I have employees with me right now that have been with me for 30 years. They just were committed to staying with me now and they're going to own the company.'"

Whole Foods looking to subpoena competitors records?

GilloD — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:00:13 -0800

Whole Foods looking to subpoena competitors records? Not content to do sneaky business the new way, Whole Foods is using it's court battle with the FTC to try and subpoena the business records and marketing plans of competing natural foods market New Seasons. Of course, they promise that no one other than the lawyers will see the records. The larger question here is: "Who's next?". The FTC concerns the merger between Whole Foods and Wild Oats. New Seasons wasn't even involved until, suddenly!, their confidential business documents were of the UTMOST importance. Of course, New Seasons isn't taking this lying down, but with Whole Foods looking to become the "Microsoft of the natural foods" market, do they stand a chance? Jeez, whatever happened to tofu, granola, love and peace?

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