Month: May 2012

Transition At San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market Creates New Business Opportunity

May 2, 2012 San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market

Jacobs, Malcom & Burtt (JMB) recently announced that it will focus exclusively on growing the brokerage and shipping arm of the company and discontinue its street business. Established in San Francisco in 1888, JMB has specialized in buying and selling asparagus for more than 100 years. The growth of the wholesaler’s street business has been fueled by longstanding relationships with its suppliers and customers. …

Grocery Stores Nationwide & Produce For Kids Partner To Encourage Healthy Eating & Help Local Children

May 2, 2012 Produce for Kids®

Produce for Kids is gearing up for its annualGet Healthy, Give Hope campaign, working with 16 supermarket grocery store chains across the country to help raise money for local childrens hospitals. Celebrating a milestone 10th birthday in 2012, everyone is invited to the celebration full of healthy meal ideas, a great cause and a media partnership with 24-hour preschool television channel Sprout. …

Gourmet Trading Company Announces Their California Blueberry Harvest

May 2, 2012 Gourmet Trading Company

California blueberry grower, packer, and shipper Gourmet Trading Company, announced that it has started harvest of its blueberry farm. The company expects an abundant California blueberry crop from now through July. …

Cal-Maine Foods Announces New Joint Venture By Eggland's Best & Land O'Lakes

May 1, 2012 Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. has announced a new joint venture between Eggland’s Best, Inc., a New Jersey-based egg cooperative, and Land O’ Lakes, Inc., a national farmer-owned cooperative based in Minnesota, to produce and sell branded specialty eggs. Cal-Maine is one of 13 Eggland’s Best, Inc. shareholders and is the largest franchisee for Eggland’s Best, Inc. …

Illinois Restauranteur Taps Into Wine Dispensing Concept

May 1, 2012 John P. Huston, Chicago Tribune

A Winnetka businessman believes he is the first restaurateur in the Chicago area to import an upscale concept from the East and West coasts: self-service wine dispensing machines. …