Whole Foods offers free trip to Brazil — blog

For the promotion. Interested vacationers can enter by visiting Whole Foods' Facebook page and clicking the "Win a trip to Brazil" tab. The site asks for basic information, including email address, and that users "like" both contest sponsors.

For each submission, Sambazon will donate $1 to the Whole Planet Foundation, which provides funding to developing countries world wide. The contest winner will take home two all expenses paid tickets to Brazil worth about $8,000, according to official rules.

Entries must be sent by July 20.

Click here for the press release on the contest and to read more about the companies. Click here to go directly to the contest Facebook page.

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SAN FRANCISCO () — Shares of Whole Foods Market Inc. jumped Tuesday after a company executive made upbeat comments about the upscale grocer's current sales trends. Co-Chief Executive Walter Robb said that



Whole Foods offers free trip to Brazil — blog

Whole Foods Market Inc. is giving one lucky fan a week-long vacation to Brazil as part of efforts to raise money for a microlending program. The Austin-based grocer partnered with organic foods maker Sambazon Inc. for the promotion.



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Whole Foods Market Inc. (WFM US) rose 6.2 percent to $60.42 after surging 7.1 percent, the most intraday since Feb. 10. The largest US natural-goods grocer said it expects to expand to as many as 1000 stores in the US and it may consider share buybacks



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With zoning approval in hand, Gershman Brown Crowley principal Tom Crowley said the company now plans to target a specialty grocery store such as Whole Foods to anchor the center. The company intends to develop the entire project, potentially with



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In his hilarious ode to suburban grocery store parking lot wars, obnoxious shoppers and upsetting shortages of healthy treats like kombucha tea, David Wittman playfully gripes over how 'it's getting real' in the video “Whole Foods Parking Lot”.




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“We’ve continued to stay strong and gain share over the last number of weeks,” he commented at a Jefferies & Co. investor conference.

In its last forecast on May 4, Whole Foods said identical-store sales growth would be between 7% to 9% for its fiscal third quarter. The consensus analyst estimate is 8%, according to FactSet Research.

Whole Foods shares have taken a drubbing since April 1, when the stock climbed to its highest level since October 2006. There’s been concern that sales had eased from the most recent quarter.

Overall, Robb said he is “very pleased with the progress” Whole Foods is making and “pretty bullish” about the company’s future.

Whole Foods is debt- free , having wiped $748 million in long-term debt from its balance sheet since January 2009.

 in that it can use its excess cash to open new stores, raise its dividend or buy back shares.

Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods, which owns 304 stores, has 61 new locales in various stages of development. The stores are slated to open this year through 2014.

On Monday, BMO Capital Markets upgraded Whole Foods to outperform and raised its stock-price-target to $65 from $60. Analyst Karen Short called the stock’s selloff extreme.


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