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Gourmet Catalog Retail Summer School Enhances Product Knowledge, Networking
More than 200 top retailers and manufacturers in the gourmet kitchenware industry gathered in Atlanta for the fourth annual Gourmet Catalog Retail Summer School, which provides in-depth training and education on today’s top kitchenware products during the International Gift & Home Furnishings Show. Gourmet Catalog’s Retail Summer School offered an additional half-day of vendor presentations for store members to learn, network and experience educational training. Store members listened to group presentations from vendors including EdgeCraft/Chef’sChoice, Smith’s Consumer Products, Full Circle, Magefesa, OXO, soireéhome, tag, William Bounds, Zojirushi and Wüsthof. Following the presentations, vendors demonstrated and discussed merchandise referenced during the ... |
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EdgeCraft Prevails in Trademark Case Against Smith’s Consumer Products
After three years of litigation, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ruled in favor of EdgeCraft Corp. in a trademark case against Smith’s Consumer Products and its use of the Edgeware trademark. The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB), a panel of federal judges, found Smith’s Consumer Products’ Edgeware trademark was confusingly similar to the EdgeCraft trademark owned by EdgeCraft Corp. and therefore “likely to cause confusion, mistake, or deception.” As a result, they ordered cancellation of the three Edgeware trademark registrations. EdgeCraft, in an effort to protect its brands, filed the trademark registration cancellation action against Smith’s Consumer Products ... |
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Zoku Wins Korean Trademark Office Ruling Over International Intellectual Property Rights
Zoku has won a ruling by the Korean Trademark Office that enforces the company’s intellectual property rights for its award-winning and patented Quick Pop Maker. The Korean Trademark Office refused the registration of an imitative mark, stating it did not qualify for registration under Article 7(1)(12) of the Korean Trademark Act. “We are satisfied with the outcome of this ruling,” said Ken Zorovich, president of Hoboken, N.J.-based Zoku. “Protecting our patents and trademarks has always been an imperative part of our strategy, and we will continue to vigorously enforce our intellectual property rights to protect our products, brand, and reputation.” ... |
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Nespresso, Fairtrade International Join Forces to Support Colombian Co-ops
Fairtrade International and Nespresso have teamed up on a long-reaching partnership under which Nespresso has committed to source a growing proportion of its coffee from Fairtrade-certified cooperatives. This partnership is designed to provide thousands of smallholder coffee farmers with even greater income security, as well as better support the development of strong, representative farmer organizations. The partnership unites Fairtrade with Nespresso’s AAA Sustainable Quality Program, which has had a proven impact in helping farmers improve quality, sustainability and productivity, as well as contributing wider social and economic benefits. The announcement comes as Nespresso celebrates 10 years of its AAA Program. ... |
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Cheesemakers’ Festival Celebrates Vermont Cheese
The fifth annual Vermont Cheesemakers’ Festival featured more than 200 cheeses from about 40 cheesemakers during a daylong event at the Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms on July 21. The festival offered tastings, pairings and sampling opportunities, along with cheesemaking and cooking demonstrations and workshops. In addition to the cheesemakers, artisan food producers and creators of local beer, wine and spirits were on hand. “Our agricultural heritage has given rise to a diverse and growing community of cheesemakers here in Vermont,” said Jeremy Stephenson, president of the Vermont Cheese Council. “The festival is a chance for people to connect with ... |
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Cook’s Warehouse Founder Wins ICON Award
Mary S. Moore, founder of the Cook’s Warehouse, has won the 2013 ICON Award for Individual Career Accomplishment.The ICON Awards is a program founded and staged by AmericasMart Atlanta, and sponsored exclusively by the Gift & Home Trade Association and Sandow Media. The annual awards are the centerpiece event of the Atlanta International Gift & Home Furnishings Market. The Cook’s Warehouse is one of greater Atlanta’s premier gourmet cookware retailers with four stores in the Midtown, Decatur and Brookhaven areas in the city, and the East Cobb County area of the suburbs. It offers more than 15,000 products for the kitchen ... |
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Green Mountain Coffee Unveils Full-Pot Technology
After cornering the market on the single-serve cup of coffee, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. is now launching its first Keurig machine to brew a full pot of coffee using a single pod.The BOLT Carafe Brewing System, coming this fall, uses a larger version of a K-Cup pod to make an eight-cup pot of coffee in about two minutes. Although designed mainly for offices, Green Mountain said it might eventually introduce a consumer in-home version.This bold move is intended to help the company diversify and regain growth momentum as it loses market share of its single-serve K Cups to private-label ... |
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Top Five Food Trends Spotted at Summer Fancy Food Show
While bacon has been a dominant food theme over the past few years, new flavor trends are making a splash this year, including kale, chia seed and natural grains, chick pea and seaweed snacks, and new global ethnic sauce flavors.The following are the top five food trends for the year ahead picked by a panel of trend-spotters at the 59th Summer Fancy Food Show (SFFS) in New York, which was held June 30-July 2 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The top trends are: Reinvented Frozen Treats, with product examples including Green Wave Smoothies’ Kalelicious Smoothie Pops; Life Ice’s ... |
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Inventors of Zoku Quick Pop Maker Honored by N.J. Inventors Hall of Fame
The inventors of the Zoku Quick Pop Maker – Ken Zorovich, Yos Kumthampinij and John Earle – have been inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, recognizing their achievement in creating an easy-to-use countertop appliance that freezes ice pops in as little as seven minutes, without electricity.Zoku holds 25 U.S. and international patents on its technology and designs, and has many patents pending. The Zoku line has expanded to include the Duo Quick Pop Maker, Single Quick Pop Maker, Slow-Pop collection, Slush & Shake Maker, Chocolate Station, Social Media Kit, “The Art of Slush” recipe book and the ... |
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NY NOW Winter 2014 Market Adds Extra Day, Additional Venue
NY NOW, the Market for Home & Lifestyle (formerly known as NYIGF), has added an extra day to the winter 2014 event, and will expand its use of multiple locations.The show will now include the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and both Passenger Ship Terminal Piers 92 and 94. With the addition of one weekday to the winter schedule, the six-day market will open on Saturday, Feb. 1, and run through Thursday, Feb. 6, rather than Feb. 5, as previously announced. Additionally, hotel reservations will open early, due to the winter market’s overlap with the 2014 Super Bowl, according to ... |
