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SodaStream Listed Among Most Innovative by Fast Company
SodaStream International Ltd., a leading manufacturer and distributor of home carbonation beverage systems, was named as one of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company in the magazine’s March issue.“We are honored to be recognized by Fast Company as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2013,” said Daniel Birnbaum, CEO of SodaStream. Fast Company cited SodaStream for “making DIY carbonation sexy.” Other contributing factors for the honor include SodaStream innovations in soda flavors and its broad range of products. Fast Company also honored businesses such as Apple, Amazon, Google and Nike, alongside rising newcomers such ... |
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Small Appliance Sales Up 5 Percent in 2012, Reports NPD Group
The small appliance industry had a prosperous 2012. According to The NPD Group Inc., a global information company, U.S. small appliance sales gained 5 percent in dollars in 2012, on top of a 4 percent increase in 2011. Noting that unit volume was down slightly, it was a favorable mix of higher-priced product that drove the growth in dollar sales. Clearly, the story is one of trading up, which was evident for the vast majority of small appliance categories. Small kitchen electrics saw the strongest growth in dollars, up 10 percent, in addition to the healthy 9 percent increase the prior ... |
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Wild Bean Vanilla Co. Opens Retail Store, Revamps Website
Wild Bean Vanilla Co., in an effort to accommodate its growing customer base, has opened its first retail location in Mesa, Ariz., while also redesigning its website for easier navigation and faster loading times. Owners Chad and Andrea Palmer’s first retail location gives local Arizona residents a retail store dedicated to gourmet vanilla beans, extracts and related products. The business previously had an industrial location to house merchandise, but opened the retail store to meet the demand of customers wanting to pick up the products locally. Its current hours are by appointment only, but the Palmers plan to eventually feature ... |
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KeHE Selects Boulder for Natural Sales, Marketing HQ
KeHE Distributors of Romeoville, Ill., announced plans to establish its natural sales and marketing headquarters in Boulder, Colo. The new office, opening this spring, will take advantage of the Boulder community’s rich talent base and deep roots in the natural products industry. By the end of 2013, the office is projected to house sales development and account management personnel in addition to category management, assortment analysis, and event and publication management resources. Rickard Werner, the company’s vice president of natural sales, will be heading up this new office. “Tree of Life is deeply committed to the natural products industry, and ... |
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All-Clad Forms Chef Ambassador Program
All-Clad Metalcrafters has launched its Chef Ambassador Program, featuring a select group of chefs that mirrors the brand’s contributions and dedication to the culinary community. As chef ambassadors for All-Clad, these award-winning chefs will play an integral role in product development and testing, creating recipes and developing promotional materials designed to inspire consumers to try new cooking techniques and expand their cooking repertoire. All-Clad, in turn, will support the chef ambassadors with product, promotion and events around their business and charitable endeavors. The chefs are: Hugh Acheson of Five & Ten, The National and Empire State South in Athens, Ga., ... |
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Wisconsin Remains Top Cheese-Producing State
Cheese production in Wisconsin ended two straight years of modest growth in 2012 with its strongest percentage gain in a decade, and Wisconsin increased its hold as the nation’s top cheese producer. Wisconsin increased overall cheese production by 4.6 percent to 2.8 billion pounds in 2012, according to statistics from the National Agricultural Statistics Service that were compiled by UW-Madison agricultural and applied economics professor Brian Gould and analyzed by the Wisconsin State Journal. The analysis showed that the state’s cheese production percentage gain was the largest since 2002 and followed two straight years where production failed to increase by ... |
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KeHE Sells Eye Level Solutions to Living Naturally
KeHE Distributors announced the sale of its Eye Level Solutions business to Living Naturally. Eye Level is an online B2C business that offers consumers unique products through “brand stores” fulfilled from the vast array of specialty, natural, organic and multicultural products KeHE distributes. “We remain fully committed to the success of Eye Level, and will be working in tandem with Living Naturally to help our retail and supplier partners grow their online brand store business. There will be no disruption to Eye Level’s existing customers or brand store retailers,” said Brandon Barnholt, KeHE’s president and CEO. “We’re pleased to bring ... |
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IHA Announces Innovation Awards Finalists
The names of the 65 finalists in the second annual IHA Innovations Awards have been released by the International Housewares Association (IHA). Winners in each of 13 categories will be announced in a ceremony during the International Home + Housewares Show at 4:30 p.m. March 2 in the Innovation Theater, Room E350, Lakeside Center, followed by a reception at the Innovation Awards display in the Hall of Global Innovation. More than 400 entries were received and were judged by a panel of industry experts and news media. The finalists will be on display in the New Product Showcases located in ... |
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Online Grocery Shopping Trends Revealed
As the popularity of online shopping grows, consumers are beginning to explore new digital shopping categories, including groceries. A new survey from CouponCabin.com finds that 15 percent of U.S. adults have shopped for groceries online. An additional 19 percent said they don’t currently, but plan to in the future. This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of CouponCabin from Jan. 29 to 31 among 2,109 U.S. adults ages 18 and older. The high cost of food may prompt some shoppers to click their way through their grocery list. The majority, 91 percent, of ... |
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Mifroma Acquires Cheese Producer Bergsenn AG
Mifroma, an industrial company within the Migros Group, reinforces its expertise in the cheese industry with the takeover of Bergsenn AG. Bergsenn is famous for its mountain cheese specialties from the Swiss canton of Grisons. This acquisition, retroactive to Jan. 1, will enable Mifroma to consolidate its position in the market and support the company’s aim to develop and promote the sale of Grisons mountain cheese in Switzerland and abroad. In the two cheese dairies run by the company in Savognin and Untervaz, Bergsenn cheese is produced daily using fresh milk from the mountains of Grisons, and is then transported ... |
