Schaefer Wholesale Florist Launches New & Improved Website For Better Customer Experience

September 24, 2018 Schaefer Wholesale Florist

Schaefer Wholesale Florist is pleased to announce its new website launch – designed with customer ease and accessibility in mind. The new website makes every search fast and simple, so clients can find exactly what they are looking for every time. Clients will appreciate a fresh, modern look coupled with customer-centric searches, direct buy options, helpful videos, and other informational pages.

Cashew Cheeses That Are Vegan — And Unbelievably Pareve

September 24, 2018 Michael Kaminer, Forward

Five years and hundreds of home-kitchen experiments later, Michael Schwarz sits atop a vegan cheese empire. Treeline Cheese, his Kingston, NY company, sells luscious cashew-based cheeses through more than 1,000 retail outlets nationwide, including giants Whole Foods and Kroger. More than 15 people work in Treeline’s Kingston, NY factory.

Maine’s Artisanal Cheese Scene Is Growing Up

The third annual Maine Cheese Festival was held at Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport on a sunny Sunday afternoon earlier this month. At this event, organized by the Maine Cheese Guild, 30 of Maine’s almost 90 licensed cheesemakers set up tables as 2,000 tasters waited patiently in long lines to sample well over 150 cheeses.

Agropur Cooperative Announces Closure Of Its Saint-Damase Plant In Montérégie

September 24, 2018 Agropur Cooperative

Agropur Cooperative today announced that it is shutting its plant in Saint-Damase, in Quebec's Montérégie region. Major investments were needed at the plant. In view of the inability to reach a long-term agreement with the plant's employees and the need to honour commitments to customers, Agropur had no choice but to reorganize its investments. Operations at the plant will therefore be discontinued and it will close permanently in April 2019. Employees were informed this morning.

Did Salmonella Outbreaks In California Cause Decline In Egg Sales?

Earlier this month, ABC News reported that 14 people were described as ill, possibly due to a salmonella outbreak in Alabama. Though infestations of salmonella happen almost every year, during the outbreak from 2010, there were 1,939 reported illnesses that were likely associated with shell eggs. This can lead one to believe that product sales of the item in question may decline.