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Hormel Foods Corporation recently awarded 75 suppliers with a 2011 Spirit of Excellence Award for their roles in the company’s continuous improvement process throughout the last year. These suppliers are from a variety of areas including contractors, pork procurement, provisions, ingredients, packaging and transportation. …

Over the past 7 years, Anchor Packaging has grown substantially, with the addition of several hundred new innovative custom and stock products for restaurant and retail operators. Of particular note, is Anchor’s increased success with National Accounts in both the Retail and Foodservice channels. In an effort to better serve these segments, Anchor Packaging announced today, the appointment of Bob Brannen to the newly created position of Director–National Accounts, North America. …

Halloumi is a cheese purely native to Cyprus, an Island in the Mediterranean Sea that lies south of Turkey and only about 100 miles from the Syrian coast, but which has a predominantly Greek culture. …

With the recent debut of Big Rock Blue, a cow's-milk cheese from Central Coast Creamery, California adds yet another blue cheese to its roster. By my count, that makes three for the Golden State. …

It's National Cheese Month!, No, wait, it's only National Grilled Cheese Month. That's still enough excuse to get to the Washington Artisan Cheesemakers Festival scheduled from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday (April 7) at the Seattle Design Center in Georgetown, 5701 6th Ave. S. …