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The Specialty Food Association Names Sofi Award Winners
NEW YORK (April 12, 2018) – Around the country and the world, hundreds of Specialty Food Association members crossed their fingers, hoping to see and hear their product announced for a coveted 2018 sofi™ (specialty outstanding food innovation) Award. The Specialty Food Association (SFA) has been presenting sofi Awards since 1972, celebrating culinary excellence and creativity worldwide through recognizing the outstanding work of its members. The 2018 winners include a wide range of culinary delicacies, from mouthwatering sauces to delectable desserts to savory snacks. Winners were chosen from more than 2,650 entries in a blind tasting by a national panel of ...

Roth Cheese Wins Five Awards at World Championship Cheese Contest
MADISON, Wis., March 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Roth Cheese took home five awards at the World Championship Cheese Contest held in Madison, Wisconsin last week. Coming in first in the Open Class: Pepper Flavored Cheeses category was Roth Chipotle Havarti. Roth's Dutch-inspired Havarti cheese is infused with jalapeno peppers and chipotle spices to make Chipotle Havarti with a spicy, smoky flavor. Roth's signature Grand Cru Reserve Alpine-style cheese and Roth Pavino, an exclusive cheese sold at Whole Foods, both took home second place medals. Roth GranQueso, a Spanish-inspired cheese, was awarded third place in the Latin American Style Hard Cheeses ...

SIAL China Responds to Fresh Food E-commerce Boom and New Retail Landscape
BEIJING, CHINA – Fresh food e-commerce is disrupting the retail landscape in China by making it easier for consumers to purchase fresh, healthy, and imported food products. According to iResearch, in 2017 the approximate Gross Market Value of China’s fresh food e-commerce market reached RMB 140 billion, a nearly 60-percent increase from 2016. Leading the change are e-commerce giants using their experience in online retail, logistics, and deep pockets to invest in 'new retail' business models, cold food chain, and the supply chain. New retail businesses, such as 7Fresh and HEMA, which are backed by JD.com and Alibaba, respectively, operate ...

Bodega Latina Corporation to Acquire Fiesta Mart to Create the Nation’s Largest Hispanic-Focused Grocer
PARAMOUNT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bodega Latina Corporation (“Bodega Latina”), doing business as “El Super”, a leading U.S. Hispanic grocer and a subsidiary of Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. DE C.V. (“Chedraui”), has agreed to acquire Fiesta Mart, L.L.C. (“Fiesta”). Fiesta, a portfolio company of ACON Investments, L.L.C., is a Texas-based international food retailer with an emphasis on the Hispanic segment operating 63 stores primarily in the Dallas and Houston areas. The combination of Bodega Latina and Fiesta creates one of the largest Hispanic-focused supermarket companies in the U.S., with a total of 122 stores across California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas and ...

New Online Farmers' Market Delivers Organic Groceries in Boston Area
BOSTON, March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- ClickToHarvest.com, the freshest grocery delivery service in Greater Boston, revealed new products in its catalog and plans for Spring harvests today. "We're excited for the first produce of the season!" Co-founder Dmitriy Peregudov said, "despite the cold, our farmers and producers have been working through winter to seed new plants, make cheeses and charcuterie, and one of them procured some of the best coffee beans in the world." Boston-area families can do their grocery shopping online easily and securely. They're guaranteed great foods from local artisanal farmers and small-batch producers; it is truly a farm ...

Esquirrou Named 2018 World Champion Cheese
MADISON, Wis., March 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A hard sheep's milk cheese called Esquirrou, made in France at Mauleon Fromagerie by Michel Touyarou and imported by Savencia Cheese USA of New Holland, Pennsylvania has been named the 2018 World Champion Cheese. Earning an impressive score of 98.376 out of 100, Esquirrou (pronounced ehs-keer-oo) bested a record-breaking 3,402 entries in the 2018 contest. Esquirrou is crafted in the Pyrénées region of France, aged no less than 90 days, and features nutty notes and a toasted wheat aroma. First runner-up in the contest, with a score of 98.267, is Arzberger Ursteirer, a hard ...

The a2 Milk Company™ Rolls Out First National Advertising Campaign
NEW YORK – March 19, 2018 The a2 Milk Company™ has launched its U.S. national advertising campaign, capitalizing on strong momentum from The a2 Milk Company’s major northeast expansion. The a2 Milk Company’s advertisements began on Monday, March 12, and are airing on ABC, NBC, Bravo, Food Network and HGTV networks during major shows including, The Today Show, Top Chef, The Walking Dead and This is Us. In January, The a2 Milk Company announced a major expansion in the U.S. market into the northeast, making products available in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. This ...

Harmons Celebrates Opening of Holladay Market
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah, Feb. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Foodies in Holladay, Utah, now have the option to shop at Harmons newest, state-of-the-art, Grocery Store. The highly anticipated Harmons Holladay Market, located at 4675 South Holladay Boulevard, is now open to the public. "We are proud to officially open our doors to the Holladay community so that customers living and working in this area can experience all that Harmons has to offer," said Harmons Co-Owner and Vice President for the Customer, Bob Harmon. "This project has been in the works for several years, and we are thrilled to see it become a reality." The 16,500-square-foot store may ...

SIAL PARIS is Just Around the Corner!
It is now more than half a century since SIAL (Salon International de l’Alimentation - International Food Exhibition) first espoused the ambition to become the world's most important network for food professionals. A daring wager, but one which has paid off, as evinced by the success foretold of the upcoming edition of SIAL Paris, to take place from 21 to 25 October 2018 at Paris Nord Villepinte. This key biennial event has become the go-to, inspirational meeting place for the entire food processing industry, because it is here that the food of today goes on show and the food of ...

ePallet Disrupts the Wholesale Food Supply Chain by Eliminating the Middleman
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- ePallet has announced the official launch of their technology solution that benefits a long-neglected sector of the food industry — the full pallet customer. The company, whose slogan is "True Wholesale," provides an artificial intelligence (AI) driven platform that disrupts the existing supply chain allowing customers direct access to manufacturers' products in full pallet increments. According to James Kwon, ePallet CEO, traditional food supply chain consists of layers of middlemen, which typically represent markups of 10% to 40%. "We believe everyone should have access to affordable, quality food," Kwon said. "We've removed the pain ...

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