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31 Mar 2014

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Coalition of Immokalee Workers campaign for Ahold to join Fair Food Program (USA)

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and allied groups have campaigned for several years for Ahold, which owns the US supermarket chains Giant, Martin's Food Markets and Stop & Shop, and the online grocery retailer Peapod, to join the Fair Food Program...Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Ahold to respond to...items [including]: “Lucas Benitez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers: My Hopes for 2014”: "...we are dismayed by corporations like...Ahold who refuse to join 11 food industry leaders in being part of the historic changes"... “Immokalee to Amsterdam: CIW Takes Fair Food Challenge to Ahold Shareholders” [Ahold response provided. Also refers to McDonald's, YUM! (parent company of Taco Bell, KFC), Trader Joe's, Walmart, Whole Foods, Florida Tomato Growers Exchange.]

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