RIDGEFIELD, CT -- Gina Ancona was born July 26, 1976, in Ridgefield, CT, where she still lives. She went to Ridgefield High School. Her parents live in Ridgefield. She works in Ridgefield.

She really is a local girl.

She is also a key part of Ancona's Market, a family-owned supermarket that has been serving the people of Ridgefield, in southwestern Connecticut, since the 1920s.

With the launch of its "Fresh Mountain Farms" brand cabbage, Boone, NC-based Hollar & Greene Produce is hoping to combat declining sales that bulk cabbage has experienced in recent years.

"Earlier this year we hired Golden Sun Marketing and challenged them to come up with a consumer-driven solution that will drive sales," Tim Greene, director of marketing for Hollar & Greene, said in a statement.

San Juan Bautista, CA-based Pride of San Juan has announced two new tender leaf products to its foodservice offerings.

The new products -- organic spring mix and organic baby spinach -- are PSJ's first products that are certified organic. The bulk products are available now. Organic spring mix is available in three-pound, 2x1.5-pound and 4x3-pound pillow pack cartons, while organic baby spinach is available in a four-pound pack.

In what should be a huge boost to the sales of corn-based resin packaging offered by NatureWorks PLA, Wal-Mart has announced plans to begin using some petroleum-free packaging product on Nov. 1, saving the equivalent of 800,000 gallons of gasoline over the next year.

The Dispute Resolution Corp., based in Ottawa, ON, has added a transportation membership category and is now accepting membership applications from carriers and transportation intermediaries, the agency announced in a statement.

WASHINGTON -- Twenty-nine cherry companies received warning letters from the Food & Drug Administration in October telling them to stop making unsupported claims about the powers of cherries to prevent and cure diseases on product labels and on their web sites.

The 29 companies that received the warnings were marketing dried fruit, fruit juice and juice concentrate as a means for treating or preventing of a variety of diseases, including cancer, heart disease and arthritis.