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Long Grove Confectionery Sold
Baldi Candy Co., which does business as Arway Confections Inc. in Chicago, has reached an agreement to purchase the business and real estate of Long Grove Confectionery Co. (LGC) of Buffalo Grove, Ill. Arway Confections, a 63-year-old family-owned business, plans to retain the Long Grove Confectionery name and employees, including David Mangel, LGC’s vice president, who will play an active role in sales and product development, and Dwayne Hallan, director of operations. The combined entity will use both the existing 75,000-square-foot Arway manufacturing facility in Chicago as well as the newly acquired 85,000-square-foot LGC facility in Buffalo Grove. LGC’s retail ... |
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Rubel to Keynote First Farm to Table International Symposium
Gardener and award-winning agricultural writer William Rubel will be the keynote speaker at the first Farm to Table International Symposium (F2Ti), which will take place Aug. 2-4 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. F2Ti, produced in partnership with the SoFAB Institute, will feature the thought leaders and practitioners in the burgeoning farm-to-table movement and will explore the cultivation, distribution, and consumption of food and drink sourced locally to globally. Rubel is the author of “The Magic of Fire: Hearth Cooking: One Hundred Recipes for Fireplace and Campfire” and “Bread: A Global History.” Rubel writes on small-scale ... |
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Amazon Expands AmazonFresh Grocery Service to Los Angeles
Amazon has expanded its AmazonFresh grocery delivery service to a second test market on the West Coast. After testing the program for six years in Seattle, Amazon is expanding same-day delivery service on fresh and packaged foods to Los Angeles.AmazonPrime customers in several Los Angeles zip codes can receive a free, 90-day trial of same-day and early-morning delivery on 500,000 items, some of which are sourced products from local shops and restaurants, according to The Seattle Times. After 90 days, customers will be invited to upgrade from a regular $79-a-year Prime membership to a new tier called Prime Fresh, which ... |
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British Cheese Board Honors Coombe Castle Chairman
The British Cheese Board, one of the country’s leading dairy industry affiliates, recently honored Glyn Woolley, chairman of Coombe Castle International, with a lifetime achievement award.Throughout his 38 years in the English dairy industry, Woolley has taken great pride in seeing his dairies’ fruitful work exported throughout the world. In an award ceremony at the Royal Bath and West Show late last month, Woolley said: “Coombe Castle has won many awards over the years, but this one means more than anything else because it’s recognition by my friends and comrades in the industry of the ambassadorial role I’ve always tried ... |
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Lancaster Commercial Products Acquires Lancaster Colony
Lancaster Colony Commercial Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lancaster Colony Corp., sold substantially all of its assets to Lancaster Commercial Products LLC, a privately held organization owned by Frederick Haleluk, whose additional holdings include Mr. Ice Bucket and Metallo Gasket of New Brunswick, N.J. The business now operates as Lancaster Commercial Products LLC under the direction of Ken Evans as president, who formerly served as president of Lancaster Colony Commercial Products Inc.The acquisition brings together two long-standing suppliers of housewares and giftware products. Mr. Ice Bucket has been in business since 1965, with a majority of sales in ... |
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Artisan Resource Doubles in Size for Third Semiannual Edition
Demand for global resources has resulted in a 100 percent growth in Artisan Resource, a first-of-its-kind market offering U.S.-based volume importers, direct import retailers and wholesalers the opportunity to meet with international artisanal producers. The third semiannual edition of Artisan Resource will showcase approximately 100 companies when it returns this summer to New York, Aug. 18-20, at Passenger Ship Terminal’s Pier 94 in conjunction with NY NOW, the Market for Home & Lifestyle (formerly the New York International Gift Fair).“Since the winter 2013 market, Artisan Resource has doubled in size,” said Allison Rober, Artisan Resource sales manager. “We’re still in ... |
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Judges Announced for Dallas Gourmet Gold Awards
Dallas Market Center has announced the judges for the fourth annual Dallas Gourmet Gold Awards to be held during the upcoming Dallas Total Housewares & Gourmet Market June 19-25.The awards celebrate exceptional manufacturers in the gourmet products industry that exhibit in Dallas. The award categories include: Best Sweet, Best Fruit Confit, Best Snack, Best Beverage, Best Soup or Chili, Best Condiment, Best Kitchen Gadget, Best Kitchen Textile, Best Tabletop, Best Cookware or Bakeware and Best Small Appliance.The judges are: Amy Pinkerton, buyer for kitchen and dining décor and entertainment for Pier 1 Imports; Anastacia Quiñones, executive chef at Komali Restaurant ... |
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Stonewall Kitchen Jam Headed to International Space Station
Stonewall Kitchen Wild Maine Blueberry Jam will be flown to space this June, scheduled to ship to the International Space Station (ISS) on the space cargo vehicle designated as HTV4. The jam will be one of the food items the ISS astronauts will eat while flying around the world in low earth orbit. “It’s such a wonderful opportunity to have our jam, a delicious taste of Maine, sent to space,” said Janine Somers, director of marketing. To send the jam into space, NASA requested the Stonewall Kitchen research and development (R&D) team to source alternate packaging because the company’s standard ... |
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Study: Women Read, Use Food Labels More Than Men Do
Women check and use food label components more often and thoroughly than men, according to a recent study from the University of Alabama and published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and featured in the May issue of Food Nutrition & Science, a monthly newsletter. The study, which looked at a sample of 573 males and 809 females aged 19 to 70, found women use the Nutrition Facts label, health claims, ingredient lists and serving sizes more frequently than men when making decisions about food products. However, both men and women who were 51 to 70 ... |
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Healthy Beverage Expo Premieres in Las Vegas
Healthy Beverage Expo, a conference and exposition dedicated to supporting and fueling the healthy drink segment of the beverage market, premiered June 7 to 9 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The event was co-located with the 11th annual World Tea Expo. “Consumers are demanding healthy beverages in the marketplace, and retail sales of these drinks – whether nutritional, functional or enhanced – are climbing,” said Kim Jage, director of marketing and sales for Healthy Beverage Expo. “The future is ripe for healthy beverages.” According to Healthy Beverage Expo, a healthy beverage is defined as a “nutritious and functional beverage ... |
