A group of “brick and mortar” traditional retail florists known as Florists For Change concluded its inaugural conference at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas on August 19th, 2011. Attended by more than 100 retail florists from the United States and Canada, the group set the framework for its core principles for improving the economic condition for the retail floral industry. …
The national floral industry trade association honors Corey Harbour, AIFD, PFCI, NAFD, in September for excellence in professional floral communication with induction into the Society of American Florists’ (SAF) Professional Floral Communicators – International (PFCI), the floral industry’s speakers bureau. …
New, original research, titled “Innovation Trends, Attitudes, and Opportunities”, from the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association (IDDBA) is now available. Innovative ideas from all aspects of business are of interest to supermarkets, food manufacturers, brokers, distributors, and others. IDDBA commissioned Datassential to study innovation in relation to new shopper technologies, social media, new food trends, nutrition, and a host of other areas. …
“I was very skeptical of the wing bar being brought to my Town & Country store in Valparaiso, Ind., because wings have never been a strong item in our deli,” reports deli manager Carrie Spencer. That impression changed dramatically for Spencer when Larry Malchick, deli director of Strack & Van Til, Town & Country and Ultra Foods parent company, elected to implement the Tyson program in his stores. …
The Cheese School of San Francisco will offer its Three-Day Intensive Cheese Education Program October 2nd through 4th, 2011. The program is designed to equip participants with the knowledge they need to procure, sell, care for and serve premium cheeses at a professional level. T …
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