Red Button Vintage Creamery premium pies and Beehive Bread & Pastry pies have added blue ribbons to the list of accolades the sweet treats have received. Both pie varieties from Utah’s Associated Food Stores were recognized as the best offerings in several categories at the National Pie Championships in Orlando, Florida, this month. Varieties from […]
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AWG Partners With RangeMe To Scale Growth Across All Categories
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) is partnering with RangeMe, an online platform that streamlines new product discovery between product suppliers and retailers, to scale its retail buying efforts for general merchandise, health and beauty and specialty, natural and organic items for all of its members. “The technology and vendor interfacing that RangeMe provides will benefit our members and […]
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Latest Buy Takes Sales And Marketing Agency C.A. Fortune National
With its latest transaction in the Pacific Northwest, sales and marketing agency C.A. Fortune says it now offers complete national coverage for brands within the natural/organic, specialty/conventional and bakery/deli retail trade channels. The Chicago-based company recently joined forces with Portland, Oregon-based Bridge Sales & Marketing, completing the agency’s goal of providing coast-to-coast coverage for its client brands […]
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Reader’s Digest Annual Survey Reveals The Most Trusted Brands In America
Reader’s Digest has released the results of its third annual Trusted Brand Survey, published in the June issue that is available now. More than 5,500 Americans across the country participated in the online survey, which awards the “Reader’s Digest Most Trusted Brand” title to winners in 40 product categories, including travel, food and beverage, automotive, beauty and […]
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Ventura Foods Promotes Buckles To New COO Role
Ventura Foods has promoted John D. Buckles to the newly created role of COO, effective June 1. He will lead an integrated commercial and operations function for the global manufacturer of custom and branded food products, including dressings, sauces, mayonnaises and margarines. “Given the significant growth we’ve already experienced and pace at which we plan […]
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Bow & Arrow Foods A Pioneer Of Non-GMO Corn Products
by Terrie Ellerbee/editor-Southwest The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (UMUT), one of three federally recognized tribes of the Ute Nation, resides in Towaoc, Colorado, on a reservation that covers more than a half-million acres and touches the Four Corners area—Arizona, New Mexico and Utah as well as Colorado. Surrounded by huge rock mesa formations and home […]
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McCain Foods To Expand In Burley, Idaho
McCain Foods USA, a division of Canadian-based McCain Foods Ltd., the world’s largest producer of French fries, plans to expand production capacity in Burley, Idaho, for frozen French fries, adding significant capacity to its current production. McCain plans to invest more than $200 million to expand its state-of-the-art, high-capacity production facility and expects to create more than […]
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Bud’s Best Cookies Founder Inducted Into Baking Hall Of Fame
Albert L. “Bud” Cason, founder and chairman of Birmingham, Alabama-based Bud’s Best Cookies, was inducted into the Baking Hall of Fame by the American Society of Baking (ASB) during BakeTech2017 in Chicago Feb. 26-28. The award recognizes industry innovation and entrepreneurial spirit as well as organizational growth and development, equipment design and innovation, advancements in […]
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Oscar Mayer Brand Changes Its Hot Dogs
The Oscar Mayer brand has made what it calls “radical changes” to its full line of hot dogs, making it the first to market with no added nitrates or nitrites, no artificial preservatives in its meat and no by-products in every one of its hot dogs. The overhaul comes after more than a year of recipe testing and […]
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Mayfield Goes Retro With Brand Refresh As It Rolls Out Ice Cream To New Markets
The Mayfield Creamery ice cream brand is expanding further across the southern U.S. to a collection of new markets in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico. Mayfield Ice Cream debuted in 1923 and currently can be found in grocery stores across the Southeast in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Mississippi, West […]
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Perdue Confirmed As U.S. Secretary Of Agriculture
Former Georgia Gov. George Ervin “Sonny” Perdue has been confirmed as the new U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. A number of trade groups, including the United Fresh Produce Association, are praising this week’s appointment, which was approved by an 87-11 vote. Robert Guenther, SVP for public policy at United Fresh, said, “United Fresh congratulates Secretary Perdue […]
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Camellia Brand Beans Expands Distribution Through Southeastern Grocers
Camellia Brand Beans has gained more than 6,000 new points of distribution through Southeastern Grocers’ Winn-Dixie and Harveys banners stores in Florida and Alabama. Fourteen different UPCs include Camellia’s Red Beans, Black-Eyed Peas, Great Northerns, Large Limas, Pinto Beans, Black Beans, Green Split Peas and Lentils. Camellia Soup and Dinner Mixes also are available in […]
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Hormel Foods Makes CytoSport Division Promotion
Hormel Foods has promoted Karen Wiernik, senior director of innovation and business development for its CytoSport division, to SVP of marketing for CytoSport. CytoSport is Hormel’s family of sports nutrition products; its brands include Muscle Milk, Cytomax and Monster Milk. The division is based in Walnut Creek, California. “Congratulations to Karen on her advancement,” said CytoSport […]
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Affiliated Foods CEO Encourages Independents To Try Something New
Out in West Texas, deflation has hit the oil patch as well as the grocery business. In addition, the independent grocer now is being tasked with adjusting its tactics for a new generation of consumers: Millennials. Randy Arceneaux, president and CEO of Affiliated Foods in Amarillo, talked about these challenges and the opportunities they represent during his […]
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Specialty Food Industry Sales Hit $127 Billion In 2016
Sales continue to grow as Americans embrace specialty food and beverages, according to the Specialty Food Association (SFA), which reports that the industry is taking its place as an integral player with traditional and non-traditional specialty food retailers, foodservice operators and distributors. SFA’s annual State of the Industry report, released Thursday, examines the $127 billion […]
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Dove Launches Baby Care Product Line
Now in its 60th anniversary year, Dove is launching a line of baby care products called Baby Dove. Baby Dove has products for all skin types in its Rich Moisture and Sensitive Moisture ranges. Baby Dove’s Rich Moisture range has been developed for babies with normal to dry skin. These products are hypoallergenic with pH neutral, […]
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The Most Successful CPG Brand Launches Of 2016
IRI has revealed last year’s most successful consumer packaged goods launches in its 2016 New Product Pacesetters report, a benchmark analysis of exceptional first-year CPG sales success for newly launched products. Thousands of new brands hit retail shelves during 2016, with 80 percent of the top-ranking brands hailing from small and mid-size manufacturers and accounting for […]
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Actor DiCaprio Joins Love The Wild As Investor, Advisor
Boulder, Colorado-based Love The Wild, purveyors of farm-raised, freshly frozen seafood kits, and champions for sustainable aquaculture, has added new investors to round out its previously announced Series A funding round. Joining Aqua-Spark, an investment fund that seeks to address the planet’s health and food security, and existing angel investors were individuals, including Academy-Award winner […]
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Nestlé Waters North America Names New CEO
Fernando Mercé has been named president and CEO of Nestlé Waters North America (NWNA), effective May 1. Mercé, formerly CEO of Nestlé Purina Latin America & Caribbean, will oversee all NWNA’s operations in both the U.S. and Canada. Mercé also will serve as a member of the global Nestlé Waters board of directors. “I am delighted […]
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Mars Says It Will Invest $70M In U.S. Manufacturing
Mars Chocolate North America said Thursday that it will make a $70 million reinvestment in its U.S. supply chain, adding approximately 250 new jobs to sites across the country. The move ensures that more than 95 percent of Mars’ chocolate products for the U.S. are made in America, according to the Hackettstown, New Jersey-based company. […]