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North Country Smokehouse Expands Product Line With Sugar-Free Bacon

North Country Smokehouse, a family-owned smoked meat producer, has expanded its product line to include two sugar-free, paleo-friendly bacon products. All of North Country’s products are handmade and slow-smoked in small batches and never include artificial flavors, fillers or dyes. The meats are sourced from the Breton family, a third-generation, family farm business that supplies […]

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Chobani Launches Yogurt For Kids In Fun Packaging And Flavors

Chobani LLC, based in Norwich, New York, has launched Chobani Gimmies, a new line of Greek Yogurt snacks for kids. “Options today are lousy or impractical. It’s either junk food that parents don’t want their kids to eat or food that’s designed for adults that kids don’t want to eat. We wanted to break that cycle, […]

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Royal Farms Gets Into The Holiday Spirit With Holiday-Themed Promotions

Royal Farms, a fast-casual, convenience and gas station chain based in Baltimore, Maryland, is running a holiday-themed promotional period through Dec. 31. The company’s chicken boxes, coffee cups and employee uniforms are designed to incorporate the holiday spirit. The chain’s boxes for its chicken meals resemble a present, its coffee cups display a chicken snowman, and […]

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Stavis Seafoods Secures Winning Proposal For Massport Waterfront Site

Boston, Massachusetts’ Stavis Seafoods, a vertically integrated importer and manufacturer of fresh and frozen seafood, revealed in late November that its proposal for developing Parcel 5 in Massport’s Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park has been accepted by the Port Authority. Stavis teamed with developer Pilot Development Partners to seek the award for the Fid Kennedy […]

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Dollar Tree Signs Two New Central Jersey Leases

As Dollar Tree‘s exclusive real estate representative statewide, R.J. Brunelli & Co. recently brokered two leases for sites in central New Jersey. Dollar Tree opened in November in a 9,000-s.f. endcap unit at The Marketplace located at Route 34 and Disbrow Road in Matawan. The company also served as the exclusive leasing broker for the owners […]

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Unilever Named One Of The ‘Best Companies For Dads’

Unilever has been named one of the 35 companies on the first-ever Working Mother list of “Best Companies for Dads.” The list celebrates organizations that lead in the areas of paternity leave, phase-back programs, telecommuting opportunities, flexible schedules and more. “We are so proud to make the list of Best Companies for Dads,” said Amanda Sourry, president of […]

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Key Impact Sales & Systems Acquires Innovative Food Sales

Key Impact Sales & Systems Inc. has acquired Innovative Food Sales (IFS). This deal adds to a 13-year history of successful acquisitions and integrations for KeyImpact, including 48 local market and regional, sales and marketing agencies. Since 2006, IFS has operated as a foodservice brokerage firm focused on commercial national and regional chains. IFS currently […]

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Francesco Rinaldi Uses Augmented Reality To Bring Labels To Life

Francesco Rinaldi, a pasta sauce brand, has debuted an augmented reality app called “Francesco Rinaldi AR APP” that enables the brand’s icon, Mrs. Rinaldi, to speak directly with shoppers from the jar. “The iconic Mrs. Rinaldi has graced the Francesco Rinaldi label for nearly forty years, and now at long last she speaks,” said Mary […]