Last updated on April 13th, 2015 at 01:59 pm
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Diversified Communications, producers of Seafood Expo North America and Seafood Processing North America, announced that the 35th edition of the exposition had a record-breaking year with more than 20,680 seafood professionals participating in the three-day event, held March 15-17 in Boston. More than 1,200 exhibiting companies from 51 countries—surpassing last year’s record by 22,700 s.f.—represented the exhibit hall, which featured 220,130 s.f. of exhibit space. New and expanded country participation included Brazil, Canada, Senegal, Morocco, China, Ecuador and Spain…
The Massachusetts Specialty Food Association (MSFA) will sponsor an educational and networking event entitled, “From Strategy To Shelf” on May 7 at the Cambridge Innovation Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A panel of food industry experts will discuss the process of starting a food product from strategy to shelf. Panelists include Bonnie Shershow, founder of Bonnie’s Jams; Lisa Sutton, founder of Kitchen Local; Trish Karter, founder of Dancing Deer; and Aaron Belyea, founder of Alphabet Arm Design. The panel will moderated by MSFA President Carol Coutrier…
The Federal Trade Commission has nearly completed its review of the Dollar Tree-Family Dollar merger; Dollar Tree remains confident in its belief that the FTC will require the divestiture of roughly 300 to 340 stores.
