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☆ Florida woman sues Kraft for $5M, saying Velveeta shells & cheese takes longer to prepare than packaging claims
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Joseph Lamour | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

On Nov. 18, Florida resident Amanda Ramirez sued the Kraft Heinz Company for at least $5 million over what she claims is deceptive and fraudulent packaging. Ramirez says that since Kraft’s Velveeta Shells & Cheese Microwavable Shell Pasta takes longer than 3-and-a-half minutes to prepare even though its packing states “ready in 3½ minutes,” that constitutes fraud. What the plaintiff focuses on is the fifth instruction, “cheese sauce will thicken upon standing” which they say constitutes a longer “ready” time than the packaging claims. “Consumers seeing ‘ready in 3½ minutes’ will believe it represents the total amount of time it takes to prepare the Product,” the suit reads. “However, the directions outlined above show that 3-and-a-half minutes is just the length of time to complete one of several steps.

The Coast Guard took 94 Cuban migrants back to their homeland Saturday amid continued flight from the island and an increased number of interdictions off Florida, the agency said Sunday. The migrants are part of a steady stream of Cubans seeking refugee status in the U.S. in hard economic times in their homeland. From January to July, U.S. authorities stopped Cuban migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border 155,000 times, more than six times the number in the same period last year. The Coast Guard said it carried out 6,182 interdictions of Cuban migrants in the fiscal year that ended in September, the most in at least seven years. Cuban migrants joined Venezuelans and Nicaraguans in pushing the number of migrants stopped at the southwest border to a new high of nearly 2.8 million for the 2022 fiscal year.

☆ General Mills Posts Higher Sales as Costs Escalate Further
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Sabela Ojea | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

General Mills higher sales in its fiscal first-quarter as more consumers eat at home in response to higher prices, including from the food company, as costs escalate further. The maker of Cheerios cereal and Betty Crocker cake mix Wednesday said it now sees costs rising as much as 15% for its current fiscal year, higher than its forecast from June, due to increases for raw materials, labor, freight and fuel.

☆ General Mills raises full-year forecast on higher prices
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterPackages of Cheerios, a brand owned by General Mills, are seen in a store in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 12, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew KellySept 21 (Reuters) - Cheerios cereal maker General Mills Inc (GIS.N) raised its full-year forecast after beating quarterly profit estimates on Wednesday, banking on higher prices and resilient demand for its breakfast cereals, snack bars and pet food. The company now expects organic net sales to rise between 6% and 7% in fiscal 2023. Net earnings attributable to General Mills rose to $820 million, or $1.35 per share, in the three months ended August 28, from $627 million, or $1.02 per share, a year earlier. It also reported net sales of $4.72 billion in the first quarter, in line with analyst expectations, according to Refinitiv data.

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