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Tim Hortons Launches Salted Caramel Flavor Collection
This month, Tim Hortons Cafe & Bake Shop is delivering a combination of sweet and salty to flavor lovers with the launch of its new Salted Caramel beverage and baked goods collection.“Salted caramel is an on-trend flavor in the culinary world that is becoming widely popular and being featured everywhere from bake shops to high-end restaurants,” said Kate O’Shaughnessy Jung, director of marketing, Tim Hortons U.S. “Our guests will enjoy this sweet and savory combination now applied to some of their favorite Tim Hortons Cafe & Bake Shop treats.”Tim Hortons Cafe & Bake Shop, which has 4,590 restaurants, including 869 ... |
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Celeb Chefs Headline Cooking Theater Lineup at Housewares Show
Top Chef Masters champion Rick Bayless and Top Chef “Fan Favorite” Fabio Viviani head the lineup of celebrity chefs appearing in the Cooking Theater at the 2015 International Home + Housewares Show, March 7-10 at Chicago’s McCormick Place.Also appearing this year will be Food Network chef Aarón Sánchez, “The Queen of Southern Cooking” Paula Deen, “The Pioneer Woman” Ree Drummond and James Beard Award-winner Ming Tsai. The Cooking Theater is the focal point of Savor Home, the revitalized Gourmet Food + Specialty Products category in the Dine + Design Expo in the South Building. On hand will be exhibitors of ... |
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Best NY NOW Tabletop, Housewares Products Named
Five companies won the winter 2015 edition of the semiannual Tabletop + Gourmet Housewares Best New Product Awards, with Sagaform’s Mini Greenhouse Planter recognized as Best of Market. Additional winners were recognized for excellence in four categories – cooking, dining, gourmet accessories and kitchen preparation – and all five honorees qualify to compete for NY NOW’s Best of HOME Award, to be determined by online Facebook balloting at http://bit.ly/NYNOW_BNP_HOME during the winter 2015 edition of NY NOW, the Market for Home + Lifestyle. In addition to the Best of Market distinction, Tabletop + Gourmet Housewares Best New Product Awards were ... |
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Lucky’s Market Enters Michigan With Ann Arbor Location
Lucky’s Market will open its first natural and organic grocery store in Michigan on Feb. 25 in the Burns Park neighborhood of Ann Arbor. Opening-day activities include a bacon-cutting ceremony and a presentation of more than $40,000 of donation support to local nonprofit organizations such as The Family Learning Institute’s Brain Boot Camp; Dawn Farm; Ozone House’s WorkZone Program and Food Gatherers’ Community Kitchen Job Training Program. The Ann Arbor store is the ninth store nationwide for Lucky’s Market, a Boulder, Colo.-based retailer that has stores in Gainesville, Fla., Columbia, Mo., Ellisville, Mo., Billings, Mont., Louisville, Ky., Longmont, Colo., Columbus, ... |
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Batali, La Colombe, Target Team up on Coffee Offering
Chef, author and TV personality Mario Batali has launched Caffé Italiano, a collection of Italian-style coffees, at select Target stores nationwide and online at www.target.com. The coffee is a collaboration between Batali and Todd Carmichael, founder and CEO of La Colombe, a world-renowned specialty coffee roaster. On an episode of Travel Channel’s “Dangerous Grounds,” Carmichael’s TV series based around coffee, Batali challenged Carmichael to create blends that capture the Italian coffee experience. Mario Batali Caffé Italiano is the result of that mission. “One of life’s greatest joys is sitting in an Italian café with good friends and enjoying a great ... |
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13th World Tea Expo Planned for Long Beach
Geared toward bolstering businesses of all kinds through its in-depth education program, the 13th annual World Tea Expo will take place May 6-8 in Long Beach, Calif., at the Long Beach Convention Center. This year’s agenda covers a wide variety of industry topics and tea retail strategies, including the state of the tea industry, direct trade with tea producers, sustainability and the global tea system, product quality, false marketing/labeling, growing tea commercially in the United States, marketing of organic teas, increasing sales through the latest trends, the culinary world and tea, and tea and health, among other topics. In addition ... |
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USDA Begins Organic Survey
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has kicked off the Organic Survey to gather detailed data on U.S. organic agriculture production. The survey is a complete inventory of all known organic producers that are certified, exempt from certification, and transitioning to certified organic production. “Total organic product sales by farms and ranches in the United States have continued to grow over the last few years, increasing by 83 percent between 2007 and 2012,” said USDA Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden. “These latest census results show the continued interest in organic agriculture among consumers, producers and businesses. “As we look to the ... |
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Door to Door Organics Expands Colorado Service
Door to Door Organics, a leading natural and organic online grocer, has expanded its Colorado service to Aspen and the surrounding region, including Glenwood Springs, Carbondale, El Jebel, Basalt, Snowmass, Redstone and Marble. The company began delivering farm-fresh organic produce in 2005 in Boulder, Colo., out of a 300-square-foot garage and today operates in 30 markets and 11 states in the West, Midwest and East Coast, with additional expansion plans in 2015. “Our goal is to increase convenient access to local, natural and organic foods for all conscious Colorado consumers,” said Chad Arnold, CEO of Door to Door Organics. “The ... |
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KeHE Partners With INFRA to Serve Independent Natural Food Stores
KeHE Distributors has entered into a second partnership with Minneapolis-based Independent Natural Food Retailers Association (INFRA) to service participating members in the Midwest region of the United States. The strategic alliance will enable participating INFRA members in the Midwest region to improve their purchasing position in the market and have a platform that is flexible enough to support innovation, according to a joint company statement. INFRA is a purchasing cooperative owned and governed by natural and organic food retailers of all sizes. “We are extremely proud of the results from our (initial) relationship in the Northeast region. The addition of ... |
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Gourmet Catalog Event Brings Excitement to Atlanta Show With New Product Previews
The 12th Annual Start the Year Member Conference held at AmericasMart in Atlanta was another success for Gourmet Catalog & Buying Group, the leading buying group in the housewares industry. “Our 12th annual Start the Year event was our best yet,” said Janis Johnson, president and founder of Gourmet Catalog. “We have heard such encouraging feedback from both store members and vendors on what a great event it was. Seeing everyone with a positive outlook for 2015 was encouraging and heartwarming.” The two-day, members-only conference focused on networking, new product introductions, sales demonstrations and learning opportunities. The event featured several ... |
