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Importers InDepth
Specialty food proves just how small the world can be: Exotic ingredients, from Nepalese tea to Moroccan spices, are available at specialty grocers throughout the U.S. Learn what’s doing well stateside and what’s still to come from industry importers. Also find export news as well as what’s trending abroad.
Tell Us: The Voice Of The Importer
What are you planning to do differently in your business this year?As part of our 2013 State of the Specialty Food Industry Report, we surveyed importers to hear their opinions on important issues facing the specialty food trade. See what they had to say about ...
What was your biggest success in 2012?As part of our 2013 State of the Specialty Food Industry Report, we surveyed importers to hear their opinions on important issues facing the specialty food trade. See what they had to say about their biggest successes in 2012 ...
Importer News
Phil Noto, president and co-owner of Santisi Imports, started the business in 2005 as more of a hobby to bring extra virgin olive oil produced by his cousin's factory in Sicily back to America.
Source Atlantique, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., promoted Karen Van Schaack to the position of sales director.
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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