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McClain’s Old Florida Gourmet Plans Tabletop Show
McClain’s Old Florida Gourmet will conduct its annual tabletop show Aug. 21 and 22 for producers that are interested in reaching Florida’s gourmet, gift and tourism markets, and for retailers from across the state and nation who would like to sample new and trending products. The show has included national companies such as Jelly Belly, The Spice Lab, DeLallo, Taffy Town and Tortuga, as well as many regional producers, according to Kelly Abercrombie, CEO of McClain’s, which is a regional distributor of shelf-stable gourmet food, bulk and count candy, and Florida specialties and novelties. It also attracts national retailers like ... |
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Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate Moves, Opens Store
Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate, a bean-to-bar chocolate bar, celebrated the grand opening of Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate Factory and its Chocolate Boutique in Eureka, Calif., on June 6. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony commemorated the day, followed by a celebration with drinks, refreshments and a speech from the owner, Adam Dick. There were door prizes and a raffle as well as free factory tours demonstrating how chocolate is made from bean to bar. The Chocolate Boutique is selling Dick Taylor Chocolate as well as specialty confections available only at the Boutique. The grand opening coincided with the 17th Annual North Coast ... |
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Gourmet Catalog Membership Reaches 351 Store Locations
Gourmet Catalog & Buying Group, the leading and original buying group in the housewares industry, has recently increased its membership ranks to a record 351 locations nationwide. Providing opportunities and specialized attention to independents has enabled the 34-year-old company to sustain growth and fill important needs of independent retailers. “Reaching this milestone is a good indication to me that independents embrace the camaraderie and experience that GC membership brings,” said Janis Johnson, president and founder of Gourmet Catalog & Buying Group. “We are proud to say that GC provides an exceptional exclusive networking and educational platform for our members. I ... |
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Matcha LOVE® CULINARY MATCHA Wins Award at World Tea Expo 2015
ITO EN, the premier leading green tea company, announced that its new Matcha LOVE CULINARY MATCHA won the “Best New Product-Tea as an Ingredient” award at the recent World Tea Expo 2015, the leading trade show and conference focused 100 percent on premium tea and related products. “We are greatly honored with this award as we invite more aspiring cooks to explore the purity and vitality of the entire green tea leaf,” said Rona Tison, SVP of corporate relations. “The fresh balance of sweetness and herbaceous grassiness is a taste profile and sensation like no other.” Fast becoming a popular ... |
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The Pavilions at Las Vegas Market Draw New & Notable Exhibitors
Las Vegas Market will showcase a wealth of new resources among the hundreds of exhibitors to debut in The Pavilions at Summer Las Vegas Market – the newly restructured and re-imagined temporary exhibits premiering Aug. 2-5, 2015. In addition to products featured in The Pavilions’ four broad categories – Gift, Home, Design and Handmade – are exciting new concentrations of high-end social stationery, children’s products and design-driven resources. Another new launch within The Pavilions is Discoveries – The Antique Vintage Marketplace, showcasing an exclusive mix of antiques, one-of-a-kind furnishings, vintage resources and found objects. “With the launch of The Pavilions, Las ... |
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Smithfield Foods Announces New, State-of-the-Art Kansas City Sausage Plant in North Carolina
Smithfield Foods Inc. and Kansas City Sausage LLC have announced the construction of a $44.8 million, 90,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art sausage plant in Sampson County, N.C. The project represents an investment by Kansas City Sausage LLC, a 50-50 joint venture between Smithfield and Kansas City Sausage, that is expected to create 177 new jobs. The plant will produce 50 million pounds of pork sausage annually and will be a comprehensive operation – from live animal harvest through finished product shipping – processing between 700 and 1,000 sows a day. “We formed Kansas City Sausage in 2013 as part of our strategy to ... |
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Seminars, Events, Displays & Awards Enrich NY NOW Experience
A full slate of educational sessions covering a broad gamut of business strategies – supplemented by unique after-hours networking opportunities, themed product displays and awards for product excellence – will enrich the market experience for participants in the summer 2015 edition of NY NOW®, the Market for Home + Lifestyle, Aug. 15-19, 2015, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Leading industry experts will dissect practically every aspect of business operations – social media marketing, visual merchandising, tax preparation, demographic analysis, importing advice – and share savvy, actionable strategies. A slate of unique after-hours events including NY NOW’s ... |
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Branding, Category Changes Planned for Housewares Show
New branding, graphics and several category changes are planned for the 2016 International Home + Housewares Show at Chicago’s McCormick Place, according to the International Housewares Association (IHA). The new branding focuses on an “It’s smART” theme, which combines smart business decisions directly with the art used to design, create and market products. Show signage and visuals will reflect the melding of smart thinking and smart design. Attendees will see large mobiles and grand portals with intersecting colored bars and semi-transparent panels showing designer drawings of products. “The International Home + Housewares Show truly is a place where solid business relationships intersect with wonderfully ... |
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Gellert Global Group Opens Warehouse in California
The Gellert Global Group has opened a 204,000-square-foot warehouse in Carson, Calif., to serve its food importing companies. The group consists of leading North American food importers and has been involved in food importing for nearly 100 years. “The new space is a great opportunity to increase our presence on the West Coast and become more productive and efficient in order to better serve our customers and suppliers,” said Andy Gellert, president. The group supplies the needs of retailers, distributors, foodservice chains, hotels, cruise lines and food manufacturers. The combined revenues of the group exceeds $1 billion. The new complex, ... |
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Sterling-Rice Issues “Natural Nine” List
Sterling-Rice Group (SRG) has identified the top nine natural and organic food trends that illustrate growing consumer desires in the natural channel. The brand-building firm is a research leader on trends in the food industry – in part because of its extensive work in consumer insights, health and wellness, and all things culinary around the world. SRG’s Natural Nine list was assembled by Kara Nielsen, culinary director at SRG, by tracking new product introductions at a variety of food industry trade shows, monitoring growing consumer interests and following general health and wellness trends in U.S. society. This year, with a ... |
