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Kosherfest’s New Products Competition
Kosherfest, to be held Nov. 8-9, 2011, at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus,
N.J., features its Annual Kosherfest New Products Competition taking place Oct. 27 at
the Jewish Community Center in New York City prior to Kosherfest. A panel of kosher
food buyers will select the best in 17 categories, from snacks to beverages to dairy.
Winners will be announced and products will be showcased at Kosherfest. For product
entry deadlines and more information, visit www.kosherfest.com or contact Karyn
Gilbert at
kgilbert@divcom.com or 207-842-5424.
Kosherfest attracts more than 6,000 professional attendees and more than 350 exhibitors
from all over the world. Kosherfest is an annual trade show open to industry professionals.
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Hearthware Inc. has moved its office and warehouse from Gurnee, Ill., to Libertyville, Ill.,
to accommodate its growing business. Expanding from 77,000 square feet to 167,000
square feet, the company has more than doubled the size of its headquarters facility to
house state-of-the-art kitchen sets for recipe testing and infomercial and Web site video
production. The new location also provides additional space for the company’s office and
warehouse departments.
This is the second office expansion for the company within the last three years. In 2009,
Hearthware Inc. tripled its office and warehouse space to make room for its growth.
Hearthware Inc. offers innovative kitchenware products with advanced technology. For
more information, call 888-689-2831, or visit
www.hearthware.com.
Lori King Joins Dancing Deer Baking Company
Board of Directors
Dancing Deer Baking Company, a leader in the natural/specialty products industry and
online gift market, and known for innovative and gourmet-quality all-natural brownies,
cookies, cakes and baking mixes, has recently named Lori King, chief operating officer
(COO) of Stonewall Kitchen, to its board of directors.
Stonewall Kitchen sells branded premium-quality specialty foods and other products via
the Internet, wholesale, catalog and its retail stores around the world. As its COO for the
past 13-plus years, King has been responsible for the development, design, operation
and execution of the systems that create and deliver Stonewall Kitchen’s products and
services, and has also led the company’s strategic planning processes during this period
of rapid growth and expansion.
King is a member of the Maine CEO Board Forum. She holds a bachelor’s degree and an
MBA in finance from Bentley University.
