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IMC Adds New Digital Expertise to Executive Leadership Team
(March 13, 2023) – International Market Centers (IMC) today announced the hiring of a Chief Digital Officer, Mark Crowther, a seasoned digital executive with 25+ years of experience transforming how organizations interact with customers and growing a company’s value proposition through innovative technology solutions. He has experience across several verticals including technology, advertising, media, FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) and financial services. “Mark’s expertise in digital innovation will help us iterate strategies to enhance the value of IMC’s offerings to drive more year-round value for our customers,” said Bob Maricich, CEO of IMC. “Mark’s addition to our executive team will ... |
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JK Adams Heads Into the 80th Year With A New CEO
DORSET, VT—MARCH 20, 2023 JK Adams Owner and Chairman Malcom Cooper Jr. has announced the appointment of Adam Sigel as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Sigel’s experience includes executive roles at several notable consumer goods companies nationwide. Most recently, the Vice President of the Savannah Bee Company—a Georgia-based gourmet foods and gift company—Sigel brings a business acumen directly relevant to JK Adams’ industry. A New England native, Sigel has also held various management positions throughout the giftware industry. While serving on the executive team at the brand Mariposa, he partnered with JK Adams with a luxury line of co-branded ... |
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Rich Brinkman Announces Retirement From the FIESTA® Tableware Company
Newell, West Virginia – (March 13, 2023) – Following a long career in the housewares industry, Rich Brinkman announced his retirement as VP Sales & Marketing at The Fiesta Tableware Company earlier this year. Dana Brown, a former Macy’s and Bed Bath and Beyond executive, was hired as his replacement. Brinkman will officially retire on April 1, 2023. After nearly 18 years at The Fiesta Tableware Company, Brinkman helped introduce 19 of its 55 colors and develop more than 50 new products, including the following milestone projects: • 75th Anniversary Collection • Fiesta Square Collection • Bakeware Collection • Bistro ... |
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The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium Announces Favorable Results In 2022
The Parmigiano Reggiano market has become more and more international, with exports increasing (+2%), driven by its performance in the USA (+8.7%), France (+7.2%) and Spain (+11.3%) Milan, 21 March 2023– The Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium announced its 2022 performance at a recent press conference at Milan’s Palazzo Giureconsulti. In 2022, a year in which food consumption dropped in Italy by -4.2% and cheese consumption by -3% in terms of volumes, the best loved and most renowned PDO product in the world posted an impressive performance in sales and prices: consumer turnover hit an all-time high of 2.9 billion Euro vs. ... |
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Glenda's Farmhouse Named a Finalist in the 2023 NEXTY Awards
VINA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Glenda's Farmhouse today announced one of its newest walnut-based consumer packaged products has been named a finalist in the 2023 NEXTY Awards. Introduced in 2022, Glenda's Farmhouse's Original Savory Walnut Crumbles is one of seven products named a finalist in the "Best New Plant-Forward Product" category for this year's NEXTY awards. The winners of this year's NEXTY Awards will be announced during the Natural Products Expo West event, which runs March 7-11 in Anaheim, California. The NEXTY Awards program runs concurrent each year with Natural Products Expo West, specifically to recognize exceptional new ... |
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Mud Pie Appoints Executive Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain
ATLANTA – Feb. 10, 2023 – Mud Pie welcomes Paul Limbaugh as its new Executive Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain. In this newly created role, Limbaugh will oversee distribution center strategy and operations, overseas freight purchasing and logistics, and labor planning. Limbaugh has more than two decades of professional supply chain experience, and has held various leadership positions in the wholesale and retail industries. Limbaugh joins Mud Pie from Hopland Fulfillment, a third-party logistics and order fulfillment firm that Limbaugh founded and managed. He also served as chief operations officer at Accent Décor, director of supply chain operations ... |
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Store Brand Sales Surge 11.3% to $228.6 Billion
NEW YORK (February 16, 2023) - Private brand sales hit a new record last year, jumping 11.3% to a whopping $228.6 billion in all outlets in the U.S. for the 52 weeks ending January 1, 2023 versus the prior year. Store brands performed so well that they grew at nearly twice the rate of national brands, which were up 6.1% in dollar sales, according to PLMA’s exclusive IRI Unify sales data. The findings are published in PLMA’s just-released 2023 Private Label Report, available here. “The store brands business is booming,” said PLMA President Peggy Davies. “Last year’s record sales and ... |
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Anuga 2023 Places the Focus on Sustainable Growth as its Key Theme
"Sustainable Growth" is the key theme of Anuga 2023. The Anuga community decided this in the scope of a digital communication campaign. As an international trading platform and trendsetter, the leading global trade fair for food and beverages is thus placing one of the central themes of the industry on the agenda. The emphasis lies on different issues, such as for instance how the area of tension between economic growth and sustainability can be conciliated in the food section, which facets sustainable growth offers and which solutions and approaches are globally possible. By addressing "Sustainable Growth" Anuga is also placing ... |
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IMC Announces Leadership Changes
ATLANTA / LAS VEGAS / HIGH POINT, N.C. – (February 23, 2023) – International Market Centers (IMC) has announced changes to its executive and senior leadership teams, with Dorothy Belshaw promoted into the new role of EVP, Chief Growth Officer, and long-time IMC employees Karen Olson, Brett Austin and Brian Archer assuming expanded roles and responsibilities. “These staff changes offer IMC exciting new opportunities to leverage the experience of our senior team members,” said Bob Maricich, CEO of IMC. “Both individually – and collectively – Dorothy, Karen, Brett and Brian have made significant contributions to IMC’s past successes. In their ... |
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Su Hilty To Receive Gift For Life’s 2023 Bert Tonkin Gift of Giving Award
February 1, 2023 — Gift for Life, the gift and home industries’ sole charitable organization, today announced that industry veteran, Su Hilty will be honored with its 2023 Bert Tonkin Gift of Giving Award on February 6, at 10am (ET), online via Zoom and in-person during NYNow at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The Gift of Giving Award, which is named for the late Bert Tonkin, industry benefactor and president of Western Exhibitors, recognizes philanthropic industry endeavors and sustained selfless efforts. In connection with the presentation of the Award, Gift for Life also will host a fundraising ... |
