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Mackinaw Family Market Thrives As Community Hub In Bustling Tourist Town

At the northern tip of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, the independent Mackinaw Family Market stands as a cornerstone of Mackinaw City – both during the bustling summer tourism season and the quiet winter months. The village of 847 residents is a resort community located on the shores of the Straits of Mackinac. For Mackinaw Family Market […]

Posted inSnacks Brands, News, Northeast

Utz Brands To Showcase Seasonal Collections, Innovations At Expo

Utz Brands will showcase its Utz, Zapp’s, Boulder Canyon and On The Border chips and dips fan-favorite products and new flavor innovations in booth No. 2714 at the 2025 Sweets & Snacks Expo, held May 13-15 in Indianapolis. At the expo, Hanover, Pennsylvania-based Utz Brands will showcase its extensive year-round seasonal collections, featuring specially crafted snacks […]

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Seasonal Fan-Favorite Sprouts Brand Products Are Back

Sprouts Farmers Market stores nationwide are stocked with limited-time pumpkin spice and harvest-inspired Sprouts Brand products. Several items will make their debut this year, such as Organic Pumpkin Spice Kombucha, Harvest Salsa, Apple Cider Jam and Pumpkin Vinaigrette. Back by popular demand are Pumpkin Snaps, Pumpkin Seed Tortilla Chips and Pumpkin Loops, among others. These […]

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Apple Co-op Releases SweeTango Crop Projections

Members of the Next Big Thing Growers’ Cooperative released estimates for the 2016 crop of SweeTango, the sweet, tangy, crunchy apple that was developed by the University of Minnesota to feature the best characteristics of the Honeycrisp and Zestar apple varieties. The projected crop yield is 450,000 standard 40-lb. boxes, which is an 18 percent […]

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Restaurants Projected To Add 515,000 Summer Jobs

While restaurants are projected add more than 500,000 summer jobs for the fourth consecutive year, hiring will be somewhat dampened compared to recent years, according to National Restaurant Association (NRA) Chief Economist Bruce Grindy. Restaurants are expected to add 515,000 jobs this summer season, according to NRA’s 18th Annual Eating and Drinking Place Summer Employment […]