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Gift for Life To Honor Vera Bradley’s Barbara Bradley Baekgaard
October 11, 2018—Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ sole charitable organization, will honor Barbara Bradley Baekgaard, Co-Founder of Vera Bradley, during the 27th annual Party for Life, Monday, February 4, in New York City. At the evening event, to be held during NY NOW, the market for home, lifestyle & gift, Baekgaard will be awarded Gift for Life’s Chuck Yancy Lifetime Achievement Award. The Barbara Bradley Baekgaard Family Foundation and Very Bradley have also jointly pledged a $50,000 donation to kick off the 2019 Party for Life fundraising campaign, which last year raised more than $225,000. In 1982, ... |
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Farmstead Now Making Bay-Area Grocery Deliveries Via Autonomous Vans
SAN FRANCISCO and SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 29, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- From Groceryshop 2018, Farmstead, the nation's first AI-powered digital grocer that sources and delivers fresh foods from farm to fridge in 60 minutes, announced that via a new partnership with Udelv, it's one of the first grocers in the country to make deliveries using autonomous delivery vehicles. Farmstead began a pilot with Udelv, the world-leading autonomous delivery van (ADV) company in September 2018, testing the customer experience of delivering via self-driving vans on select routes in the Bay Area. The process for customers is simple: Customers who have opted-in to autonomous delivery are ... |
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Ambiente 2019 To Display Interaction Between Analogue and Digital in Special Point of Experience Exhibit
Success for high street retailers – made simple with state-of-the-art technology For quite a while now customers have been expecting more from shops than the provision and presentation of products. Good customer service requires perfect interaction between analogue and digital. Ambiente, the world's leading trade fair for the consumer goods industry, is holding a special presentation called Point of Experience for the second year running. The show will demonstrate how analogue and digital will eventually be combined in the world of shopping. The special presentation Point of Experience has been planned by Design- und Realisierungsbüro Gruschwitz GmbH together with the ... |
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SIAL Paris 2018 Achieves Record Attendance
The Planet Food Commitment to Taste - True - Meaning! So now it's over… Well, not quite! Although SIAL Paris 2018 closed its doors on Thursday 25 October, the ideas, discoveries and inspirations proposed by this year's edition will continue to resonate for a long time to come on Planet Food. The Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition venue, the stage for SIAL Paris, has been the scene of five truly action-packed days! 5 days bubbling over with ingredients, recipes and flavours, in a "Frenchy" atmosphere but with a distinctly international feel. 5 days to offer the world's biggest showcase to Planet Food, ... |
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Lenox Corporation Appoints Mads Ryder as Chief Executive Officer
BRISTOL, PA—(October 26, 2018)—Lenox Corporation (“Lenox”), America’s leading tabletop brand, today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Mads Ryder as Chief Executive Officer. Mads joins Lenox after holding multiple leadership positions at top European consumer companies, including IC Group, Royal Copenhagen, Weightwatchers, and LEGO Group. Marc Utay, Chairman of the Board of Lenox, commented “We admire Mads’s impressive track record building brands and effective organizations. While he was CEO of Royal Copenhagen, we watched Mads reposition one of the tabletop industry’s most prestigious, though aging, brands into what is now a highly relevant and vibrant brand in Denmark ... |
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2018 Sweets & Snacks Expo Showcased Innovative Trends and Transparency Initiatives
Washington, D.C. (June 21, 2018)—The 2018 Sweets & Snacks Expo, the annual trade show hosted by the National Confectioners Association (NCA) and the premier event for the candy and snack industries, was held May 22-24 in Chicago. With 18,000 professionals from the confectionery and snack industries and 810 exhibiting companies, including more than 100 first-time exhibitors, attendees experienced new or soon-to-launch innovative products, flavors and packaging, most of which will be available to consumers by fall 2018. The Expo provided companies of all sizes the opportunity to promote their latest products. Thousands of products debut each year at the Expo ... |
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Gruyère AOP Announces Winners of 2018 Scholarship Contest
Pringy, Switzerland – Today the Interprofession du Gruyère is pleased to announce the winner of their 2018 ‘Scholarship’ Contest, launched in December of 2017. In fact, part of the news is that there is again, as in 2016, not just a single winner. This year, we have two! The judges felt that the quality of the competition, held among American Cheese Society Certified Cheese Professionals®, was so extraordinary that choosing multiple victors was the only way to properly honor the endeavor. The winners will receive a trip to the Gruyères Region of Switzerland in the autumn of 2018, where they ... |
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Deli Brands of America Opens new Slicing and Logistics facility in Baltimore County
BALTIMORE, June 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Deli Brands of America (DBA) has opened a 22,000 square foot slicing and logistics facility at a new location in Baltimore County. Deli Brands of America, the processing subsidiary of Saval Foods Corporation, will utilize the new facility to support its current operation that produces deli meats, and family recipe entrees. "We are excited to continue the growth of our company which my grandfather started in 1932," said Jeff Saval, President of Deli Brands of America. The new location will be utilized for deli meat slicing functions, as well as to handle all outbound freight ... |
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Las Vegas Market Takes Commanding Lead In Gourmet Growth
LAS VEGAS, NV – (June 18, 2018) - Las Vegas Market announced today that significant gains in the gourmet category are bringing a record-breaking 750+ gourmet housewares, boutique tabletop and specialty food resources to permanent showrooms and temporary exhibition space during the Summer 2018 Las Vegas Market, running July 29 to August 2, 2018. “Las Vegas Market has achieved ‘critical mass’ in the gourmet category, and C1 and C11 — our gourmet-oriented floors — are rapidly approaching 100% occupancy,” said Joy Jansen, Leasing Manager - Gift + Home, International Market Centers. “We are seeing continuing expansion in core gift-oriented housewares and ... |
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Cheeses of Europe Unveils the “Secrets De Fromage” in Latest Integrated Campaign
Cheeses of Europe will launch a multi-year marketing campaign in an ongoing effort to drive awareness and trial of European cheese in the United States beginning June 1, 2018. Created in partnership with New York City-based marketing agency Fifteen Degrees, Cheeses of Europe will debut a new digital ad campaign, unleashing the secrets of these unique and time-honored cheeses. From fun facts to easy recipes and life hacks, each secret sheds light on how consumers can transform everyday meals or occasions into something magnifique. In addition to the digital focus, the campaign includes video recipes, digital content, display advertising, and ... |
