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Gourmet Catalog Announces Best Vendor Award Winners
Gourmet Catalog & Buying Group, the leading and original buying group in the housewares industry, has announce its seventh annual Best Vendor Award winners. “The GC Best Vendor Awards are our way of recognizing and showing appreciation for the vendor members’ hard work and dedication toward the success of small independent retailers,” said Janis Johnson, founder and president of Gourmet Catalog (GC). “Gourmet Catalog is about connecting stores with vendors and these awards are a great representation of that – stores choosing vendors they feel did an outstanding job. The award is a huge thank-you for their strong loyalty and ... |
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Virginia Food and Beverage Expo Names Best New Products
Three products were hailed as the best at the Virginia Food and Beverage Expo in Richmond, Va., on March 26. The event, sponsored by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, connects buyers representing grocery stores, restaurants, gift shops and specialty stores with Virginia specialty food and beverage products. The Expo takes place every two years to promote Virginia products and advance economic development within Virginia. Virginia’s First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe and Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Todd Haymore announced the Best New Product Awards during a ceremony at the Expo. This year, there were 63 entries in three ... |
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Report: Specialty Food Sales Break Records
Americans have a growing appetite for specialty food. U.S. sales of specialty food and beverages reached $88.3 billion in 2013, a record high for the fourth year in a row and a jump of 18.4 percent since 2011. Cheese dominated specialty food sales at retail, with $4 billion in sales in 2013, followed by the categories meat, poultry and seafood; and chips, pretzels and snacks. The fastest-growing categories were nut butters, eggs and frozen desserts, according to new research from the Specialty Food Association. “U.S. consumers are more sophisticated and discerning about their food choices than ever before,” said Ron ... |
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Extra Virgin Alliance Plans Summer Olive Oil Tasting Seminar
The Extra Virgin Alliance (EVA) will sponsor an Olive Oil Tasting Seminar for buyers and culinary professionals two days before the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York. The intensive course is tailored to meet the needs of retail executives, category managers, buyers, culinary professionals and store employees, and will take place June 27 and 28 in advance of the Specialty Food Association’s Summer Fancy Food Show. The class is a practical, hands-on introduction to the world of olive oil, including fundamentals of olive oil tasting; recognizing defects and appreciating positive attributes; understanding olive oil testing; deciphering global quality and ... |
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Natural, Organic Producer Annie’s Acquires Snack Plant
Annie’s Inc., a leading natural and organic food company, has completed the acquisition of Safeway’s snack manufacturing plant in Joplin, Mo., which has been Annie’s primary manufacturer of cookie and cracker products since the inception of its snacks business in 2002. Annie’s Baking LLC, a subsidiary of Annie’s Inc., acquired the plant for $6 million, plus the actual cost of inventory and supplies on hand at closing. The acquisition was funded with approximately $7.4 million in cash on hand. Concurrent with the closing of the transaction, Annie’s Baking also entered into a supply agreement to produce products on behalf ... |
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Online Registration Opens for Summer NY NOW
Online registration for the summer 2014 edition of NY NOW, The Market for Home + Lifestyle, is now open at www.nynow.com/register. The market, which runs Aug. 16-20 at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and Passenger Ship Terminal’s Pier 94, is expected to feature 2,800 exhibitors and to attract some 33,000 attendees. “We’ve opened NY NOW attendee registration early to facilitate retailers’ summer market planning,” said Christian Falkenberg, NY NOW director and GLM senior vice president. “Our easy-to-use online system not only allows round-the-clock access, but also provides convenient pre-population of data for returning registrants. The system also has links ... |
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Radiant Orchid: Pantone Color of the Year
Radiant Orchid is the Pantone Color of the Year, according to Leatrice (Lee) Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.“It’s a beautiful color,” she said. “The inspiration for it is a harmony of fuchsia and pink undertones, like a gorgeous sunset. It’s a hue that sparks the imagination. It is a magical, captivating and enigmatic color.”In her presentation at the International Home + Housewares Show, titled “New Harmonies: Changing Themes in Color/Design Trends,” Eiseman – who is also director of the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training, and author of several books on color – said that Radiant ... |
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Starbucks and Oprah Winfrey Introduce Teavana Oprah Chai Tea
Starbucks and Oprah Winfrey have co-created Teavana Oprah Chai Tea, which will be available beginning April 29 at Starbucks and Teavana stores in the United States and Canada.As part of the collaboration, for each product sold, Starbucks will make a donation to the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Foundation to benefit educational opportunities for youth.“With the introduction of Teavana Oprah Chai, we are going to elevate the tea experience in the same way we did for coffee,” said Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. “Partnering with Oprah Winfrey in the creation of this distinctive and remarkable tea is a strong next step forward ... |
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Keurig Pledges to Make K-Cups Recyclable by 2020
Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) announced ambitious new 2020 sustainability targets, focusing on three main practice areas – resilient supply chain, sustainable products, and thriving people and communities.One of its biggest goals is to make 100 percent of K-Cup packs recyclable by 2020, and achieve zero waste-to-landfill at owned and operated manufacturing and distribution facilities. Another stated goal is to reduce life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of brewed beverages by 25 percent vs. 2012 baseline.In its supply chain, KGM pledges to engage 1 million people in the company’s manufacturing and agriculture supply chains to significantly improve their livelihoods. The goal is to ... |
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Italian Kosher, Halal Delights to be Showcased at Cibus 2014
The 17th Cibus Food Fair will include new features that will transform the traditional international fair into a multichannel expo, open to the whole food industry, from producers to distributors. Cibus 2014, which will take place in Parma, Italy, May 5-8, will include a large variety of exhibitors from large food companies to medium and small food enterprises, and national and international distributors as well as retailers and duty-free companies. Also included will be producers of products made in Italy as well as trending organic, halal, kosher and gluten-free products.Between January and November 2013, the Italian market decreased by 2.1 ... |
