San Francisco, CA – Fresh Solutions Network, LLC announces the Side Delights® Athletic Performance Promotion program targeting athletes and sports fans. The theme “Potatoes Fuel Performance” promotes potato’s taste, nutritional value and ability to positively impact athletic performance.
The program provides shoppers with information on potato nutrition as well as pre- and post-workout recipes via QR code links to Performance Magazine on the Side Delights® website nutrition page. The program features four major sports themes: football, basketball, soccer and baseball.
“Big game days such as the World Cup, World Series, March Madness, and the Super Bowl have become not just sporting events but eating occasions,”* said Kathleen Triou, President and CEO of Fresh Solutions Network. As a recent Forbes article stated, ‘The Super Bowl is to the food industry what Christmas is to retailers.’ We are leveraging the excitement and energy around these events with promotions and merchandising that will encourage shoppers to purchase potatoes and other nutritious ingredients for home celebrations.”
The Side Delights® Athletic Performance promotion program is supported with in-store point-of-purchase such as shelf talkers, product merchandiser with custom header cards, and new floor bins which can be displayed strategically throughout the store. Triou noted, “Research shows that when potatoes are merchandised in secondary displays outside of the Produce Department, overall potato category sales increase by nearly 16%, featured item sales increase by 78% and the total basket ring is 2% higher.** We are providing retailers with the tools to help increase sales.” Additional awareness will be created across social media with Website, Facebook and Twitter postings.
*US Potato Board Best Practices
**Nielsen Perishables Group FreshFacts® and Retailer Loyalty Card Data, 2011
About Fresh Solutions Network, LLC: Fresh Solutions Network (FSN) is the exclusive supplier of Side Delights® potatoes and onions. FSN is a group of family owned growers and shippers who choose to work together to make the potato and onion industry better for everyone. FSN helps fresh potato and onion buyers grow their categories, maximize category investment, and increase sales. FSN delivers category insights, collaborative innovation and customized assortment. Fresh Solutions Network, LLC partners are: Sterman Masser, Inc. (Masser Potato Farms and Keystone Potato Products in Sacramento and Hegins, PA), Michael Family Farms, Inc. (Urbana, OH), Basin Gold Cooperative, Inc. (Pasco, WA), Green Thumb Farms, Inc. (Fryeburg, ME), Red Isle Potato Growers, Ltd. (Prince Edward Island, Canada), NoKota Packers, Inc. (Buxton, ND), Sun-Glo of Idaho, Inc. (Sugar City, ID) and Mack Farms (Lake Wales, FL).
For more information, visit www.freshsolutionsnet.com, or visit www.SideDelights.com
Source: Fresh Solutions Network, LLC
