News From Specialty Food Resource,  LLC

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 Volume 52 - December 2009
 

 

 

     
 

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Grow and Conquer New Markets with DINE.
DINE exclusively focuses on branding, packaging and marketing food and beverage products. Our engagements include consulting and implementing marketing materials for Kettle Pop, Le Tourment Vert, Pasta Pomodoro, La Brea Bakery, Columbus Salame, Galaxy Deserts, Mrs. Fields Cookies, Green Giant Fresh, A.G. Ferrari and Green Beans Coffee.

We guide food manufacturers, restaurant chains and food service companies that want to launch new products.

Please visit: www.DineMarketing.com or call 415.864.8200 x 104 to learn how you can use our talents to tell your story to specialty food retailers and consumers.

 
     

   

NNOTES AND COMMENT

- TRANSFORMATIONAL NEWS. We are still amalgamating! (It's taking more time than we anticipated). We welcome your comments and continued support.

 - Working For Your Stores - The Whole Foods Example
Industry expert Sergio Mendez reports.

- How to Do It - Or Not?

Review of a specialty food product leaflet.


- Our Food Entrepreneur Polls continue to be completed by readers. Here is just one example:

At what point did you purchase product liability insurance?

At start-up - 54%
Within 1-3 years - 11%
Within 3-5 years - 2%
Other - 2%
I do not carry liability insurance - 31%


- Utah Food Entrepreneur makes ice cream with her tractor.
See it here

 - Lack of cash cited as biggest barrier to innovation.
Lindsey Partos reports from S.I.A.L.

 

 

 

   

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Reach more than 2,200 food entrepreneurs each month who are eager to learn about hou you can help them succeed with your services/products.

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MINI CASE STUDY - THAMES FOODS, INC.

Products: 
Thames Foods COMEBACK SAUCE.

FOUNDER Wade Thames' Vision: "To provide people (who can't visit my family's restaurant, Fat Tuesday's - Ridgeland, Mississippi) with our family's food products. I wanted to bring our Comeback Sauce to the table first, because no one has made a significant push to market a version to the world. Our Comeback Sauce is an "everyday" item, right there next to the ketchup or ranch dressing."

Read more about what Saveur Magazine calls one of Mississippi's favorite products!


 
     

 

     
 

Please contact me to learn about our first class, one-on-one, specialty food marketing consulting.
Guaranteed to give you the edge.

Partial Client Listing:

+ Veggie Brothers - Frozen Vegetarian Entrees

+ Rich & Wholesome Foods - Vegan alternative to yogurt, Allergen-free, organic "Nogurt"
+ St. Louis Kettle Korn Company - Flavored kettle corn
and other snack foods


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STEPHEN HALL, Publisher                                   PATRICIA HALL, Editor


  Food Entrepreneur eZine Co-Founders: Karen A. Cantor, MBA, and Stephen F. Hall


Our Contributors

 
     

 
     
 

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FAN MAIL:

"I checked out your site, and love what you are doing as well. This is right up my alley! I am looking forward to accessing that resource bank of yours as well my friend! Great to hear from you - I'll definitely be in touch my brother!" - Wade Thames, Thames Foods, Inc.

 


Learn and grow  - Our Discussion Forum and Blog

More than 385 members

worldwide [compared with 228 members in May 2009]


HOW POPULAR IS YOUR WEBSITE? (Site may be down)
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TAKE ONE MINUTE to let us know what business choices you have made.(And see the results of earlier polls.) 
Please take our polls here.


ATTENTION small business owners who could benefit from the SBA 2009 Recovery Act. Funded in ONLY 158 days! Here is the latest in one applicant's ongoing saga.   
 



HERE IS THE NOVEMBER ISSUE OF
FOOD LABEL NEWS

Contents:

- Front-of-Pack Labeling: 2009 Review - Nutrient Content Claims on Food Labels: Instructional Series
Part 4 of 10

- Reader Q&A: Labeling for Foodservice

- Helpful links to keep you current

 


Trade Rags you should be reading:
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Gourmet News
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Gourmet Retailer
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Fancy Food
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Specialty Food


 
     
 
     
 

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