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World Tea, Healthy Beverage Expos Will Return to Southern California
World Tea Expo and Healthy Beverage Expo will return to Southern California in 2015, with Long Beach, Calif., as the official host city for the second year in a row. World Tea Expo will take place May 6-8 and Healthy Beverage Expo May 6-7. The two business-to-business expos are scheduled for the Los Angeles region after a highly successful run this May at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center, where the events will be held again. Healthy Beverage Expo focuses on better-for-you beverages with healthful ingredients, facilitating the dialogue surrounding what “healthy” means to the industry and ultimately the ... |
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KeHE Acquires Nature’s Best
KeHE Distributors LLC , based in Naperville, Ill., has agreed to acquire Nature’s Best – a California-based distributor of health and natural food products. According to the company, the combined resources of KeHE and Nature’s Best will expand its national distribution capabilities, broaden its natural and organic expertise, and enhance distribution solutions across all food retail channels. “We are thrilled to welcome Nature’s Best into the KeHE family,” stated Brandon Barnholt, KeHE’s president and chief executive officer. “The addition of this great group of people and long-standing tradition of service fits perfectly into our operations.” Barnholt continued, “Nature’s Best two LEED Gold ... |
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NY NOW Teams With HGTV Magazine on Blogger Events
A first-time partnership between HGTV Magazine and NY NOW will bring two brand-new blogger-directed initiatives – HGTV Magazine’s Blogger Block Party and NY NOW’s Best Blog Competition – to the summer market Aug. 16-20, at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal Pier 94. “Our partnership with HGTV Magazine signals an exciting new relationship between two leading home and lifestyle brands,” said Christian Falkenberg, NY NOW director and senior vice president. “These two new blogger-directed events will provide fresh inspirations and insights into home and lifestyle trends and directions.” An all-day event, HGTV Magazine’s first-ever Blogger Block Party will include opportunities for bloggers to ... |
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Acquisition Gives Messe Frankfurt South African Subsidiary
Messe Frankfurt, one of the world’s leading trade show organizers and producers of Ambiente in Frankfurt, Germany, will have a permanent presence in Africa in the future. The group is acquiring a 56 percent majority stake in the South African trade show organizer South African Show Services (SASS), based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The SASS portfolio includes trade shows such as the Johannesburg International Motor Show, the Rand Show, the AMID Motorcycle Expo, the Johannesburg Boat Show and the SA Outdoor Lifestyle Show. The new subsidiary’s portfolio also includes Automechanika Johannesburg, which has been organized under license by SASS since ... |
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Americans Nix Instant Coffee, While the Rest of the World Embraces It
While Americans prefer roasted beans and fresh brewed coffee – with a large proportion enamored with high-end artisan offerings – the rest of the world is leaning the other way, toward instant coffee.Instant coffee accounts for more than 34 percent of all the retail brewed coffee consumed globally, and sales have nearly tripled since 2000, reaching $31 billion last year, according to data from market research firm Euromonitor. Sales are expected to increase nearly 13 percent to $35 billion by 2018. The increase over the past few years has been steady and substantial.“The markets where instant coffee is most popular ... |
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La Rochere Opens New U.S. Subsidiary
La Rochere, the French glassware company known for its bee collection, has announced the creation of La Rochere NA, a new subsidiary to distribute and represent its brand in the United States. La Rochere NA is based in Bronxville, N.Y. La Rochere has been producing artisanal glassware in the heart of France for more than 500 years, making it the oldest continuously running glass factory in Europe. La Rochere NA Inc., the exclusive U.S. distributor of La Rochere products, is managed by a sales and customer service team with extensive experience in the import, distribution and marketing of French home décor ... |
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Gourmet Catalog Retail Summer School Hosted 150 Top Industry Leaders
More than 150 top retailers and manufacturers in the gourmet kitchenware industry gathered in Atlanta for the fifth annual Gourmet Catalog Retail Summer School earlier this month. Members received exclusive interactive training and in-depth education on today’s top kitchenware products during the event hosted at the International Gift & Home Furnishings Show. The gathering provided a unique shopping and learning experience for stores, and direct feedback on key products for vendors. Gourmet Catalog’s Retail Summer School offered vendor presentations to store members to learn, network and experience educational training. On July 9, store members heard presentations from Gourmet Catalog vendors ... |
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Top Five Food Trends Identified at the Summer Fancy Food Show
Specialty retailers can expect to see new takes on peanut butter, protein-packed jerky and smoke in unexpected places in new product offerings this year, according to a panel of trendspotters who made their predictions after combing the aisles at the Summer Fancy Food Show earlier this month.The following are the top five trends from the show: Spread the Cookie Love – Dave’s Gourmet’s Oatmeal Cookie Butter, Gooey on the Inside’s Fluffernana Cookie Butter and Amoretti’s Graham Cracker Natural Cookie Spread. Smoked Signals – Quin’s Smoked Cola Gum Drops, Rick’s Picks’ Smokra and Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery’s Smoked Chocolate Chips. Bourbon ... |
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John Wm. Macy’s CheeseSticks Launches New Interactive Website
John Wm. Macy’s CheeseSticks, manufacturer of premium baked snacks, has launched a new website that consolidates three separately hosted sites into a unified site.The new website – www.cheesesticks.com – uses the open-source Concrete5 content management system and Shopify’s popular e-commerce platform. The website automatically resizes itself to the consumer’s computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone for an optimal user experience. “We wanted a cleaner, more beautiful site with better navigation, greater interactivity with consumers and an easier online shopping experience,” said Tim Macy, vice president. “In a nutshell, we wanted visitors to have more fun. This called for a complete rebuild, which ... |
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American Made Show to Join Dallas Gift in 2015
Dallas Market Center and the producers of the American Made Show plan to debut the American Made Show as part of the Total Home & Gift Market beginning in 2015. The American Made Show will be held June 25-28 as part of Dallas’ summer market, June 24-30. “Welcoming the American Made Show to Dallas will offer our buyers the largest collection of quality, American-made merchandise in the southern United States,” said Bill Winsor, president and CEO, Dallas Market Center. “As champions of unique product and small business, the partnership is a perfect fit, and we look forward to more than ... |
