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Find industry news for the specialty food broker segment. Learn which companies are using brokers and who are seeking new ones. Keep up on regulatory news that could impact your business. Follow news on major acquisitions and mergers, and find educational opportunities to keep up with the competition.
Broker News
Payments company Square has introduced a sleek new piece of hardware to its portfolio: a point-of-sale stand with a built-in credit card reader that uses an iPad for display and brains.
The Specialty Food Association is unveiling its new brand, Specialty Food: Craft. Care. Joy.
Food Trends
The $33 billion confectionery industry continues to enjoy positive trends.
A centuries-old farming technique called dry farming—once the order of the day in California's Central Valley—is once again drawing the interest of some of the region's farmers.
Industry Stats
Today's farmers are a social-media savvy bunch.
The $33 billion confectionery industry continues to enjoy positive trends.
Consumer Stats
Two research studies sponsored by Wine Institute indicate that the sustainable and eco-friendly attributes of wine are important considerations when making purchasing decisions among key segments of wine consumers as well as the wine trade.
At least 17 birthday-cake flavored new products have hit the market over the past handful of years versus three the previous five years, reports research firm Datamonitor.
Supplier Profiles
After a ten-year career in product management and marketing in New York, Tasia Malakasis enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America, but it was a trip to Dean & Deluca that changed her life. There she discovered Belle Chevre goat cheese, made in her hometown ...
Pamela Giusto-Sorrells was born into a family of natural foods entrepreneurs. Her grandparents bought a health-food store in San Francisco in 1940, which eventually became Giusto Specialty Foods. After college, Giusto-Sorrells decided to start her own venture, Pamela’s Products, to do what no one was ...
Operations And Business Building
Whether creating jobs, supporting the arts or driving up education advocacy, these companies develop their specialty products to do good, in the U.S. and beyond.
Dr. Otis W. Baskin of The Family Business Consulting Group Inc., answers questions from the specialty food trade in this recurring online feature. This month he tackles topics such as family businesses surviving fraud by a family member, handling varying risk comfort levels, and appropriate ...
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