Placon Debuts New Fresh 'N Clear Multi-Compartment Bowls

October 25, 2012 Placon

With time being a precious commodity in most households today, the convenience of purchasing pre-cut fruits and veggies is a given. Placon, a top 20 US thermoformer of custom and stock food, retail and medical device packaging as well as recycled PET materials is continuing to meet consumers’ demands for convenience with its new divided containers, containing up to 100%, food-safe, post-consumer recycled materials.

Sun Valley Tulips Know No Season

October 25, 2012 Sun Valley Floral Farms

Fall tulips? Wait, I thought tulips only bloomed in spring, with rows and rows of dramatic color and the occasional windmill sticking up on the horizon. Enter Sun Valley’s Fall Tulip Program. We plan ahead to offer classic tulip varieties year round, especially in the fall and holiday times, when tulips are as rare as true love itself. How do we work this magic? What kind of voodoo are we practicing to bring a huge variety of high quality, colorful tulips to market? No magic, no voodoo. Just a bunch of innovative tulip lovers who know how to trick nature, ever so slightly.

Chrysal Sponsoring Ice Skating Team 'Project 2018'

October 25, 2012 Chrysal

Chrysal is co-sponsor of the ice skating team 'Project 2018'. They are an ambitious team with promising ice skaters, including Irene Schouten who is the daughter of a Dutch tulip grower. Their goal is to win a medal at the Olympic Games in 2018! The team and their spirit fits perfectly with Chrysal and our Dutch heritage. After all, ice skating is very popular in the Netherlands.

Helleborus Winterbells – Absolutely Distictive

October 25, 2012 HilverdaKooij

The first, flowering Helleborus Winterbells® are currently auctioned and marketed. This unique Helleborus variety immediately shows why it distinguishes itself as compared to the already existing Helleborus varieties, viz.

Perfect Storm Threatening FL Oyster Industry

Drought, a massive oil spill, a tropical storm and the state’s long-running water war with a neighboring state have combined to put the Florida Panhandle seafood industry in crisis, threatening the $6.6 million seafood industry – and for many people here, a way of life.