Tagged: Kellogg Company

Washington - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. retook top spot on the Fortune 500 rankings of largest U.S. companies from Exxon Mobil as two U.S. automakers fell. General Motors Co. slid from fifth to seventh. GM fell behind Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which rose from seventh to fifth, and Apple Inc., which rose from 17th to sixth as its revenue jumped by 45 percent in 2012.

Kashi is moving most of its operations from southern California to Battle Creek this week. U-T San Diego, the website of The San Diego Union-Tribune, reported Monday that Kashi, which makes breakfast cereals and frozen entrees, issued layoff notices to 14 employees and offered another 14 the option of relocating to Battle Creek, where its parent company, Kellogg Co., is headquartered.

Kellogg Co. has few policies that address the impact of its operations on global producers and communities and is falling behind other major food and beverage companies in attending to its social and environmental impacts, according to an Oxfam report released Monday.

Kellogg Co. has issued a voluntary recall of some of its Special K Red Berries packages because they may contain glass fragments, the company announced this week. Three sizes of the cereal are impacted by the recall.