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Awards Recognize Outstanding Products, Retailers at Expo East
Natural products manufacturers and retailers received awards at the 29th annual Natural Products Expo East, the East Coast’s largest natural, organic and healthy products event. Adam Andersen, show director, Natural Products Expos, said, “We are very pleased that our event is the platform for brands – from legacy leaders with the industry to entrepreneurs launching their businesses – to showcase their natural, organic and healthy products on an even playing field. We congratulate all of the winners on their awards, as they were truly the standout products of the event, and wish them success.” The Best of East Awards is ... |
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Swissmar Pens Agreement to Distribute Nuance Wine, Bar Accessories
Swissmar, known for its assortment of kitchen tools, fondues and raclettes, has finalized an exclusive U.S. distribution agreement with the Nuance design-inspired line of wine and bar accessories. “Nuance brings an exciting design-focused aspect to barware, combined with quality and superior functionality,” said Daniel Oehy, president of Swissmar. “I believe Nuance is an excellent addition to our portfolio.” The initial assortment will be composed of key barware items, including several corkscrews, a wine cooler, a bar accessory set, a cocktail shaker and a wine finer. All the products will be warehoused in the company’s Niagara Falls, N.Y., facility. Nuance is ... |
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Innovative Food Holdings Buys Organic Food Brokers
Innovative Food Holdings Inc., a leading nationwide provider of specialty foods, gourmet specialty meals, gluten-free foods and direct-from-source artisanal foods, has launched a retail channel offering for new and emerging food brands via the acquisition of Organic Food Brokers LLC, a Boulder, Colo.-based company. Organic Food Brokers works closely with emerging food brands to develop and execute sales, marketing and distribution plans via its nationwide network of retail-related food broker relationships while providing emerging food brands distribution and shelf placement access in all of the major metro markets in the food retail industry. Organic Food Brokers (OFB) has been instrumental ... |
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KitchenAid, O Olive Oil Sponsor Martha Stewart’s Cooking School
The fourth season of the 2014 James Beard Award-winning “Martha Stewart’s Cooking School” returned to PBS stations in 163 markets on 398 channels nationwide on Oct. 4. This season follows three successful seasons of the series, which averaged 700,000 weekly viewers per original episode. Each 30-minute episode, which was both produced by MSLO and inspired by Emmy Award-winning TV host Stewart’s best-selling book of the same title, features Stewart demonstrating more classic cooking techniques and basics using her signature step-by-step, how-to teaching process. This season features all new episode themes, including on the bone, mushrooms, cooking with wine, one-pot meals, ... |
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Chocolate: The Exhibition on Display at Academy of Natural Sciences
The sumptuous world of chocolate is being explored at Chocolate: The Exhibition at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia that opens Oct. 11. The exhibit, presented by Mars Chocolate North America, traces the intriguing story of this “food of the gods” from its origin as a unique tropical rain forest plant to the Maya who made it into a spicy ceremonial drink, to the Aztecs who used cacao seeds as currency, to the Spanish who added sugar and transformed the bitter drink of kings to the sensuous sweet millions of people crave today. On view through ... |
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Five Celebrity Chefs Honored on New U.S. Stamps
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has released a new series of stamps honoring five celebrity chefs, including James Beard, Julia Child, Joyce Chen, Edna Lewis and Felipe Rojas-Lombardi. The stamps were officially released last week. It was determined to honor chefs after the Postmaster General’s office was flooded with requests to celebrate the culinary arts. And how did the postal service narrow the field of chefs to honor? The selected chefs represent a wide array of cuisines reflecting the “melting pot” of American culture, Susan McGowan, the USPS director for stamp services and corporate licensing, told Today.com. “These chefs ... |
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U.S. Consumers Gravitate Toward European-Style Appliances
European housewares and appliances tend to be smaller and more energy-efficient because living quarters there tend to be smaller and utility costs higher than in the U.S. But with more U.S. consumers flocking from the suburbs to urban dwellings, the need for smaller, chic European-style appliances is on the rise, according to a report in USA Today. Indeed, America’s cities are growing, with 2.3 million more urban dwellers in 2013 than the prior year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. “One of the big factors is the physical dimension of the products themselves, given the historical differences of living space ... |
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Door to Door Organics Opens Larger Warehouse in Chicago
Online retailer Door to Door Organics is expanding its footprint in Chicago with a new 25,000-square-foot warehouse, which is more than three times larger than its previous capacity. Located in the city’s Bridgeport neighborhood, the new warehouse replaces an 8,000-square-foot facility in Chicago’s Far West Side, which the retailer had been using since 2010. The warehouse space was needed to house the retailer’s expanding product mix. The retailer now has 3,500 local, organic and natural grocery stock keeping units (SKUs), after recently adding 1,000 products to its mix, including frozen foods, pantry staples, ethnic foods, vegan options, gluten-free items, non-GMO ... |
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Consumers Snack More on Specialty Foods
Specialty food consumers are spending more of their food dollars on specialty food this year, with millennials gravitating toward specialty snacks and on-the-goal meals, according to new research from the Specialty Food Association. Overall, specialty food shoppers say they are spending one in four of their food dollars on specialty food, up from one in five in 2013. Their top picks are chocolate, olive oil and cheese, but tea is gaining ground, making it into the top 10 foods specialty food consumers report buying this year. A generation gap, however, is evident. Younger adults report spending more on specialty food ... |
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More Than 4,700 Exhibitors Expected at Ambiente
Ambiente, which will be hosted once again at the Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre in February 2015, is expecting more than 4,700 exhibitors. The United States is the partner country for Ambiente 2015, whose categories span the complete spectrum of consumer goods for the table, kitchen and household, as well as giving, the home and furnishings. The show will run from Feb. 13-17, 2015. “Ambiente is the unrivaled business platform for the global consumer-goods industry. Products from almost 90 countries [will be on display] in an area the size of more than 46 football fields,” said Nicolette Naumann, vice president, ... |
