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Independent Gourmet Retailers Embrace QWIQQ Social Selling Program
Dallas-based QWIQQ has entered into an agreement with Gourmet Catalog & Buying Group, the leading and original buying group in the housewares industry, offering its location-based social selling platform and services to more than 300 independent gourmet retailers nationwide.“Likes are great. But selling stuff rocks. We call it 'enhanced social engagement,' and we are thrilled to work with President and Founder Janis Johnson of Gourmet Catalog & Buying Group,” said Jack Wrigley, co-founder of QWIQQ, the leader in social-local-mobile (SoLoMo) commerce helping small businesses sell more socially.QWIQQ plans to help connect Gourmet Catalog store members with its specialty app designed ... |
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EveryWare Global Acquires U.K. Housewares Business
EveryWare Global Inc., a U.S.-based leader in the consumer tabletop and foodservice markets under the Anchor Hocking and Oneida brands, has acquired the George Wilkinson and Samuel Groves business units of Metalrax Housewares, a maker and provider of metal bakeware, cooking utensils and catering supplies based in the United Kingdom. George Wilkinson and Samuel Groves are designers, manufacturers and distributors of branded and private-label retail bakeware, retail kitchenware and catering supplies to major U.K.-based retailers and foodservice operators. The acquisition brings a broad portfolio of brands, including Mermaid, Great British Bakeware, Le Buffet, Longlife, ecoChef and RTA. “The acquisition of ... |
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KitchenAid, SodaStream Team on Soda Maker
KitchenAid, a leading maker of premium kitchen appliances and culinary tools, and SodaStream International Ltd., the leading manufacturer and distributor of home beverage carbonation systems, plan to introduce a jointly developed home carbonation system to the KitchenAid portfolio. The soda maker is expected to be available at retail in the fourth quarter of 2013. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We are excited to expand our KitchenAid family of products and enter the growing category of home carbonation,” said David Elliott, general manager of KitchenAid small appliances. “Working with SodaStream brings together their best-in-class technology with our stylish ... |
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Lifetime Brands Appoints New President
Lifetime Brands Inc., a leading global provider of branded kitchenware, tabletop and other products used in the home, has appointed Daniel T. Siegel as president of the company. Since joining the company in 1992, Siegel has held various positions including senior vice president-sales and, most recently, executive vice president. He also serves on the boards of directors of Grupo Vasconia SAB, Lifetime’s 30 percent-owned partner company in Mexico; and GS Internacional SA, the company’s 40 percent-owned partner company in Brazil. “Dan has made many significant contributions to Lifetime,” said Jeffrey Siegel, Lifetime’s chairman and chief executive officer. “He repeatedly has ... |
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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 ... |
