Month: June 2014

Icing Images Introduces Food-Safe Conversion Plates For The Grand Calibur

June 2, 2014 Icing Images

Icing Images is now offering a food-safe conversion plate set to allow customers who own the craft version, the Spellbinders Grand Calibur, of this system to convert it for use with edible products. The Grand Calibur is used to cut and emboss paper for creating decorative scrapbooking designs. Icing Images sells the food-safe version of this Spellbinders product as the Sweet Accents™ system, packaged with Premium Icing Sheets™ and food-safe die cutters. This new product is being offered to allow customers who own the craft version of this system to convert it for use with edible icing sheets. …

Revolution Lighting Technologies Completes LED Lighting Retrofit With Baldor Specialty Foods

June 2, 2014 Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc.

Revolution Lighting Technologies, Inc. announced the completion of a major LED lighting project at Baldor Specialty Foods in the Hunts Point area of the Bronx, NY. …

FreshDirect To Mentor Food Startups

June 2, 2014 Thornton McEnery, Crain's New York Business

Long Island City-based online grocer FreshDirect will announce Thursday that it has entered into a partnership with AccelFoods, a newly-launched accelerator and investment fund focused on early stage food and beverage startups. As part of their alliance, FreshDirect will co-host the first AccelFoods demo day on June 3, offering a platform for four startups chosen and mentored by AccelFoods over the last five months. …

Minneapolis Expands Mobile Grocery Stores

June 2, 2014 Nicholas Studenski, Minnesota Daily

Mobile grocery stores could soon provide an oasis for food deserts in parts of Minneapolis. The City Council voted last Friday to expand an ordinance allowing mobile grocery stores in Minneapolis to sell a wider variety of foods, including fresh produce, in more areas than previously allowed. …

Costco Reluctantly Searches The Web For Younger Shoppers, Partners With Google

June 2, 2014 Kyle Stock, Bloomberg Businessweek

Costco is adding more categories of products to its Web store and has a trial partnership with Google (GOOG) to offer same-day deliveries of Costco wares in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. …