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October 2018 Volume 2 • Issue 5 SNACKING NEWS Puff Sales Popping as Consumers Discover Better-for-You Versions BY ROBIN MATHER New better-for-you puffs, many made with plant proteins or from vegetables, are showing up everywhere. Consumer re - SAVORY SEE PAGE 10 & 11 search company SPINS says sales of puffed snacks grew nearly 10 percent in n Dutch Company Adds 2 New Products 2017, far outpacing the snacks category as to North American Line a whole, which grew 1.4 percent in the

n Whole Foods Lauds gimMe Snacks same period. Puffs account for seven to 10 percent of the overall snack category, SPINS says. As Whole Foods noted in its 2018 trends forecast late last year, new Plant-Based Snacks Capture extrusion and popping tech - Consumers’ Interest – and Dollars nologies make al - most anything BY ROBIN MATHER Show in New York, New York, in July. puff-able and If Mintel’s David Lockwood is right, That share is only likely to grow, as con - poppable. you’re going to see more plant-based sumers across all demographic sectors turn Exhibitors at snacks in the marketplace this year. And to plant-based snacks. the Sweets and SWEET SEE PAGE 13 & 14 next year, and the year after that. You can credit the adventurous palates Snacks Expo in Hungarian Chocolatier’s Prize-Winning n “One third of snack purchases are plant- of Millennials and members of Gen Z – May in Chicago, Products Now in U.S. based,” Lockwood told the audience at a the newest demographic, those of ages 11 Illinois, demonstrated exactly that, with session called “The State of the Specialty dozens of puffed vegetable- and nut-based n DAHlicious Organic Launches Single Continued on Page 9 Serve Lassi Food Industry” at the Summer Fancy Food snacks. Among them: HIPPEAS showed its organic chickpea puffs; Crunch-a- www.snackingnews.com Marketing to Multicultural Mame offered its organic edamame puffs in barbecue, cheddar and ranch; Peeled Customers Requires Fresh Thinking Snacks offers baked organic pea puffs; Cosmos Creations added its Welch’s BY ROBIN MATHER “When you’re talking about multicul - Multigrain Fruit Puffs; Shrewd Food If your retail presence serves members of tural consumers, you’re really referring to showed its sweet and savory puffs; and a diverse community, understanding their diverse customers – African American, Ready Nutrition showcased its pea-protein preferences in how you market to them Hispanic, Asian and LGBTQ segments,” puffs. can make a big difference in your sales fig - he says. “And when we talk about His - What’s driving consumers’ love for ures. So says Corey Richardson, Director panic customers, we’re talking about crunchy, crispy puffs? Some manufactur - and Cultural Anthropologist for fluent360 Spanish-speaking people from the western ers think it’s the Millennial love for com - in Chicago, Illinois, an agency specializing hemisphere. Latinx means an individual fort, combined with a desire to improve in connecting brands to multicultural com - munities. Continued on Page 9 Continued on Page 8

NACS Show Offers Education, gether in a general ses - sion on Monday from Tech and Speakers 10:30 to 11:45 a.m., and Henry Armour and Ideas BY ROBIN MATHER expo. 2 Go speak in the same The 2018 National Association of Conven - Bonin Bough, a much-lauded marketing time slot on Tuesday. ience Stores (NACS) Show and Confer - executive with experience at Mondelez In - Television host, writer ence runs from Sunday, October 7, to ternational, PepsiCo, Weber Shandwick and actor Mike Rowe Wednesday, October 10, at the Las Vegas and Ruder Finn Interactive, will speak speaks in a general session on Wednesday Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sunday at a general session from 3:45 to from 8 to 9 am. Rowe is perhaps best A full slate of educational sessions com - 5 p.m. Continued on Page 6 plements the new product exhibits and Joe Sheetz and Scott Stratten speak to -

FROM THE EDITOR SNACKING NEWS WWW.SNACKINGNEWS.COM There’s a tremendous with frog’s mouth? I hadn’t heard that term Again and again, the issue of time or, PUBLISHER amount of information in until I learned about the standardized lex - more precisely, the lack of it, surfaced – Kimberly Oser this issue of Snacking icon that the American Cheese Society has no time to prepare meals, no time to eat

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4 SNACKING NEWS October 2018 SNACKING NEWS Pittsburgh-Based Candy Shop Celebrates Fun and Delight

BY ROBIN MATHER this business coup. “Heard the news, the Pocono mountains in northeastern marshmallows that go into cereal,” he A floor inlaid with pennies in the ice cream called my supplier, and bought everything Pennsylvania, so it’s not surprising that the says. “We didn’t – I didn’t even know such parlor at Grandpa Joe’s Candy Shop’s they had in stock,” he says. boy grew into a man who tired of the a thing existed! But I made some calls and flagship store in the Strip District of Pitts - Today, Grandpa Joe’s has six stores and restaurant business, put away his culinary found a supplier, and now we sell 280 burgh, Pennsylvania, might be the best a distribution center in nearby Robinson, degree and decided to open his own candy pounds of those little marshmallows a metaphor for owner Christopher J. Beers’s Pennsylvania. With stores in Beaver and paradise. week.” success. Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania; Chillicothe, Even now, Beers’s easy-going public Retailers should never hesitate to work The floor was a wacky idea that came to Middletown, and Miamisburg, Ohio, persona cloaks a mind that never stops closely with suppliers. “I demand that Beers out of the blue. It took a fair amount Beers employs about 55 people, and says thinking about the business. “My wife manufacturers keep me in the loop,” he of planning, but some serendipity came the average store is around 2,100 square wants to turn out the lights to go to bed, says. “I buy big and they appreciate into play, too. It cost more than he ex - feet. “Some are as small as 900 square and I’m still scrolling through posts on that.” pected – more than $1,000, “or $2.14 a feet, and the largest is about 3,000 square Facebook to see what my competitors are But more than anything, he says, re - square foot,” Beers points out. It was much feet,” he says. doing,” he confesses. tailers should set up their stores for “the more work to finish than he thought it “I expect to have 10 stores by the end of Beers says he uses social media, like experience and ‘wow!’ factors,” Beers would be, and his trusted employees the year,” Beers says, with most in western Facebook, to promote Grandpa Joe’s says. That Grandpa Joe’s succeeds in helped with the work. Pennsylvania and neighboring Ohio. “I Candy Shop, just as many business owners both is evident in hundreds of online re - And yet the floor, with its giant ice hope to open another six to 10 next year. do. views. “Great candy store, especially for cream cone motif made of shiny new pen - I’m trying to double the size of the busi - But he also looks at the photos that his the hard-to-find favorites,” says one. nies just inside the door, and its carefully ness every year, and so far I’ve been able competitors post. Perhaps they have “Also a great selection of sodas in every designed border of darker, older pennies, to do so.” brands that he should be carrying, he says. flavor you can imagine and some hand- is a stunning success. Customers remark That he’s been able to grow the business On Instagram, he searches by geo - made chocolates and an ice cream on it the minute they enter the ice cream so quickly and so profitably is nothing graphic location near his stores to see what counter. Throw in some fun novelty parlor, one of three side-by-side store - short of remarkable. “I have zero debt and consumers are saying. When he’s consid - items and you can’t go wrong here. Per - fronts in the Strip that Grandpa Joe’s oc - no bank loans,” Beers says. “I’ve never ering a new location, those customers’ In - fect for all ages.” cupies. taken a penny from anyone else.” He says stagram accounts can help him understand Grandpa Joe’s Candy Shop is also a the key to his success has been to “have a what they might want. Part of the Community stunning success. positive attitude and work real hard.” In fact, “staying alert and fluid” is part A big part of Grandpa Joe’s Candy Shop’s Beers opened the store in the Strip, Pitts - Though he and his wife, Jennifer, have of his business strategy by design, he role in the community is generosity, Beers burgh’s functioning warehouse district and three daughters – Mia, 9; Hailey, 7; and says. “We never carried fidget spinners says. “We say yes to every donation re - a popular tourist destination because of its Alexa, 4 – Beers says he and his wife because I totally missed that,” he says. quest,” he says. “We take part in commu - ethnic grocers and restaurants, in 2012. “I agreed long ago that he’d run the business “But the guy across the street (from the nity events and festivals, too.” chose this neighborhood because the area while she runs the family. Not that he’s to - Strip District store) made a lot of money He notes that the company’s Dilly was missing a candy shop,” the 39-year- tally hands-off with the girls: As we sat to with them.” Still, his Necco products buy Pickle Cotton Candy was such a hit at the old Beers says. talk, he fielded a phone call about trying is a great example of what he’s talking end of a community charitable run that the Back then, the store occupied only one to run down a replacement accessory for about. company ran out on the first day. (Want to storefront. But as years passed, and neigh - Mia’s American Girl doll. Another example is found in the ice try it yourself? You can buy a 1.2-ounce bors retired or went out of business, the cream parlor. The ice cream hasn’t been its tub for $4.95, or anything else that store expanded to occupy three storefronts Business as a Source of Fun best seller, as Beers points out. So he Grandpa Joe’s sells, at www.grandpajoes - at 2124 Penn Avenue, the Strip’s main Beers has an easy smile and a droll sense swapped out about half the ice cream of - candyshop.com.) drag. With two floors, the store stocks 265 of humor. “I can be that guy in a business ferings and replaced them with something It’s natural to wonder which of the many kinds of soda from around the country, suit,” he says, as he talks about the kind of else. “Edible raw cookie dough is hot right candy bars his stores carry is his own fa - and more than 750 candy bar brands, for business stuff he clearly doesn’t care for now,” he says, and customers love buying vorite. “I didn’t carry Three Musketeers wholesale and retail sales. The upstairs is much. “But I can also be that guy with the a scoop or two to eat as they stroll the Strip bars for the first two years because I knew devoted to bulk candy packaging, but the whoopee cushion in my back pocket.” – it doesn’t melt in summer’s heat as ice I’d eat them all,” he says, laughing. But downstairs, with its floor-to-ceiling dis - Beers is often both at the same time, one cream does. nowadays, his favorite is California candy plays and its creaky wooden floors, is a suspects. manufacturer Annabelle’s Rocky Road maze of candy, toys and novelties, includ - He says he has been obsessed with Top Tips for Retail Success S’mores bar – which the store carries. “I ing a bacon-scented stick-on mustache, candy since he saw Gene Wilder in the Retailers should consider their displays, he really love chocolate and marshmallow,” squirrel underwear and other oddities. 1971 movie Willy Wonka & the Chocolate says. “I always say ‘stack it high and he says. This location may expand soon, Beers Factory. It was not just the candy, he says, watch it fly.’ You need to have a lot of Apparently, Beers listened carefully hints. but the imagination and the wit of the can - what you’ve got. You don’t want to look when Gene Wilder sang “Pure Imagina - The store even has a full stock of Necco dies in the movie that caught his fancy. like you’re going out of business.” tion” in that long-ago movie: “Anything confections, though Necco closed sud - The Everlasting Gobstoppers. The lickable And they should listen to their cus - you want to, do it. Want to change the denly in July. Beers’s face creases into a wallpaper. The Fizzy Lifting Drink. tomers. “One day I got a call from a guy world? There’s nothing to it.” slightly wicked smile when he announces They appealed to the boy growing up in who wanted to know if we carried the little He listened, and he believed. n

NACS Show and handling unhappy customers, devel - Now, New, Next,” and “Meal Delivery: sign, New Flavors, New to the Industry, Continued from Page 1 oping employee incentives, positive up - Partner, Do It Yourself or Something New Services and New Technology. selling, growing your customer base Else?” The Tech Edge program partners with known as the star of the Discovery Chan - through gasoline, store, and car wash The NACS Show attracts more than industry organization Conexxus to nel’s “Dirty Jobs” and CNN’s “Some - pricing strategies, and getting the most 23,500 buyers and sellers in the con - showcase new tech products and solu - body’s Gotta Do It.” out of managers. venience and fuel retailing sector. The tions appropriate for convenience store Educational sessions this year include Other sessions include “Be-Friending “Cool New Products Preview Room” owners. small-operator modules on developing Social Media,” “Improving the Execu - features products in seven categories: For more information, visit the NACS in-store training, preventing complains tion of Fresh,” “Foodservice Trends: Green, Health & Wellness, New De - website at www.convenience.org. n

6 SNACKING NEWS October 2018 SNACKING NEWS Topps Company Supports Kids who Play, Learn and Grow

The Topps Company, Inc., including its its “A League of Our Own” event, which cluding after-school tutoring programs and of-season celebration and hosted 800-plus Bazooka Candy Brands division, has celebrates DREAM girls and young “Coach for a Day.” And for the second members of the DREAM community and continued its support of DREAM (for - women; the “Adopt a Dream Class” pro - year in a row, Topps served as a key organ - their families. The day included a block- merly Harlem RBI). DREAM is a non- gram, which creates wide street fair with carnival games, food, profit youth development organization workshops to assist and two championship games from that serves 2,500 low-income boys and scholars prepare for DREAM’s REAL Kids summer program girls in East Harlem, the South Bronx college and the work - played on its “Field of Dreams” in East and Newark, providing opportunities for place; and League Harlem. children to “Play, Learn and Grow” Sponsorship, which Using a blend of youth development through a charter school, after-school provides resources for principles and sports, DREAM provides and summer programs, a baseball and coaches, team uni - kids with opportunities to “Play, Learn and softball league and other support pro - forms, equipment, Grow” using collaborative relationships grams. transportation, etc. for and open, optimistic communication. Pro - Topps began its partnership with an entire elementary grams are designed to ensure that its mem - DREAM in 2017 and has contributed over school league and bers graduate from high school and go on $100,000 to date, along with providing team. izer and sponsor of DREAM’s “Champi - to college. various in-kind donations to meaningful In addition, Topps employees have ac - onship Day,” where more than 50 Topps For more information, visit www DREAM programs and events, including tively volunteered for various activities in - employees participated in DREAM’s end- .wearedream.org. n Stonyfield Organic Dips into Snack Packs Stonyfield Organic has introduced three “The dippable format makes eating on or salty choice of dipper, including: snacks to purchase for their children. new snacking options for families on the the go a little tastier and, more importantly Strawberry Low-fat Yogurt and Graham Stonyfield is dedicated to providing par - move. Featuring a duo of creamy or - for busy parents and kids, a lot more con - Crackers; Chocolate Flavored Low-fat ents with better-for-you organic prod - ganic low-fat yogurt paired with organic venient -- whether it’s from a lunchbox, on Yogurt and Graham Crackers; and ucts made without the use of pesticides, graham crackers or organic pretzels for the sports field, or as an after-school Chocolate Flavored Low-fat Yogurt and artificial hormones, antibiotics or dipping, the new Organic Snack Packs snack,” said Natalie Levine, Stonyfield Pretzels. GMOs. are the latest addition to Stonyfield’s Brand Director. Almost half of American households Stonyfield Snack Packs are available in kid-friendly line-up of organic yogurt, Available in three flavors, each Snack are composed of Millennial parents, 46 Kroger, Hannaford, Market Basket and pouches, smoothies, tubes and string Pack contains a combination of Stony - percent of whom report that nutrition is Wakefern supermarkets for a suggested re - cheese. field Organic low-fat yogurt with a sweet a leading factor when deciding which tail price of $2.29. n

Puff Sales Popping centered,” Kuo says. “In terms of snacks, ity because, when ground into flour, it can the loss of flavor in processing. We wanted Continued from Page 1 we’re looking for fat, sugar and salt. But stand in for wheat flour. That makes it at - to use ingredients that you could find in we want those snacks to be good for us. tractive to manufacturers who want to your home kitchen.” nutrition as they snack almost constantly Puffs are an old category, dominated by cater to the gluten-free market. Part of Kuo’s mission is to provide the throughout the day, sometimes combining old standbys,” – like Cheetos, he means – “We use sorghum, a drought-resistant crop backstory, the story behind the product, he snacks to make mini-meals. “so in the past five years, there are more that grows without water,” he says. “You can says. Millennials and the up-and-coming Christine Webster, of Portage, Michi - upstarts like us, focused on dietary needs.” make these puffs into snacks without having Gen Z – now 11 to 23 years old, according gan, says her two sons, ages 12 and 15, Puffs also signal stress reduction to the constraints of typical snack ingredients – to consumer insight research firm Mintel are “at prime snacking age because they many consumers. corn in tortilla chips, or rice. You can do a – especially want that transparency about can now reach the cupboards.” “Puffs are sort of a comfort food to begin lot more in extrusion these days.” how their food is produced. She doesn’t indulge them often in puffed with,” says Rob Ehrlich, Founder and CEO “We ultimately want to tell our story in snacks, but adds, “They always seem like of Vegan Rob’s in Seacliff, New York, and The Demand for Clean Label Snacks the same way that specialty coffee roasters such a treat – like they must be bad for the Founder of Robert’s American Gour - Seriously Cheesy Puffs are made of corn - do,” he says. “Our cheese comes from you.” But, she says, “I’m glad there are met Foods, the maker of Pirate’s Booty, the meal sourced from Bob’s Red Mill, which Oregon, Washington and Idaho; our corn healthier versions today, because my kids puffed corn, rice and cheese snack. “Most is just down the road from Kuo’s develop - comes from California.” love the taste and texture of cheese puffs.” people see puffed snacks as child or youth ment lab. Corn is the most common sub - For Ehrlich, the timing of this new in - Puffed snacks signal fun. Why is that? snacks, with a very orange color.” strate for puffs, he says, and he boasts that terest in puffed snacks couldn’t be better. “Puffs are more fun than chips, because The Millennial love of snacking – many Fuller Foods is the only company in the “We just happened to be positioned in - they come in a variety of sizes and industry surveys say Millennials snack country using corn from Bob’s. Although credibly well,” he says of Vegan Rob’s shapes,” says Jack Kuo, Founder of Fuller four or more times a day – makes better- the corn is not certified, it’s non-GMO and line, which he describes as “adaptogenic Foods near Portland, Oregon, which for-you puffs attractive, Ehrlich says. organic, he says. and ayurvedic snacks.” But he notes that makes Seriously Cheesy Puffs, finger- “There’s a non-stop attitude about snacks Kuo was trained as a food scientist, he there’s more to success than simply mak - length puffs available in Asiago Black these days – they’re meals. Around-the- says, and that’s partly what prompted him ing a new product: “You have to take it Pepper, Blue Cheese Jalapeño and clock snacking is what’s happening.” to found Fuller Foods. further and make [the snacks] delicious,” Sriracha Cheddar flavors. Vegan Rob’s has created puffs made “In snack products, it’s very common to he says. Consumers “won’t buy a second A more food-oriented culture means with Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, beets include ingredients like maltodextrose and bag if it doesn’t taste good. They have to Millennials are making room in an aging and other vegetables. These puffs, he says, yeast,” he says. “After a while, the flavor hit on all four cylinders. There’s a psycho - segment for new innovators, he says. are sorghum-based – a cereal grain unfa - profile becomes kind of boring. Even ‘nat - logical part as well – most people buy “In the past 15 or 20 years, we, as a miliar to most of us. Sorghum, long used ural flavor’ is a huge bucket of things that snacks to reduce stress, not just because country, have gotten more ‘foodie’ – we in the South as animal feed and to make you wouldn’t recognize as ingredients – they’re hungry. We emphasize all those appreciate food more, we’re more food- sorghum molasses, has gained in popular - yeast added to impart umami flavor after parts in our products.” n

8 SNACKING NEWS October 2018 Plant-Based Snacks dried vegetable crisps such as Harvest or carrageenan. Ours does not.” made with longer the case, says Robbie Rech, co- Continued from Page 1 Snaps. But pulse snacks, such as the whole-grain oats, it’s fortified with probi - Founder and Chief Executive Officer of chickpea-based The Good Bean, Hip - otic and gut health bacteria, and has a sug - Hope Foods, which makes hummuses. to 23, that Mintel is tracking — for part of peas and Biena Snacks, have seen sales gested retail price of $2.99 for an Today’s snacks are not only full of fla - that explosion in interest. growth of more than 150 percent in the eight-ounce bottle. vor, he says, they’re also full of all the “The younger people are, the more they year ending in October 2016, Packaged Hälsa is available in four flavors – things that consumers seek for healthy gravitate to plant-based foods,” says Bill Facts says. Mango Pear, Apple Cinnamon, Strawberry eating. Glaser, Chief Executive Officer and co- and Blueberry. Made with The company Flavor is key if snack makers want to Founder of Outstanding Foods, which Plant-Based for Health – now has a plain flavor yogurt in develop - succeed in a competitive market, however. launched its Pig Out Pigless Bacon Chips and the Environment ment to use as a base for smoothies, and Nikki Azzara, Founder of P.S. Snacks, a in September. “Gen Z and Millennials are “The vegan trend is growing, and more should have it ready to release later this line of bean-based edible cookie dough more apt to experiment — and they love and more Millennials don’t want to eat an - year or in the first quarter of 2019. treats manufactured in Brooklyn, New salty, crunchy types of snacks. If you can imal products,” says Helena Lumme, Co- Lumme and her company are betting York, says her company’s mission is to add health benefits, all the better. To reach Founder of Hälsa, a line of oat-based that consumer interest in non-dairy yo - create something familiar, by using plant- that market, having such an in - drinkable yogurts manufactured in New gurts will continue to grow. based, nutrient-dense ingredients to make novative product can get them Products such as non- a healthier alternative. to try other plant-based prod - dairy yogurt have wide “Taste has to be a factor,” she says. ucts.” appeal across all ages. “All this innovation shows that you can Pig Out chips are made HealthFocus Interna - enjoy something that is plant-based, and from mushrooms, Glaser says. tional, a marketing and you won’t even really know the differ - “These whole-ingredient research agency based in ence.” mushrooms are loaded with St. Petersburg, Florida, P.S. Snacks has six SKUs – three flavors antioxidants, they’re anti-bac - reports that 60 percent of in either 12-ounce cartons or three-ounce terial and anti-microbial, and consumers ages 15 to 70 individual portions “comparable to apple - there’s lovastatin, which low - say they’re cutting back sauce or yogurt,” she says. The snacks ers cholesterol, in the mush - on meat products, and have a suggested retail price of $7.99 for rooms.” The health properties 55 percent say that the 12-ounce cartons, and $2.69 for the are not depleted in cooking, he change is permanent. three-ounce portion packs, sold in the says. Another 22 percent say grab-and-go cold deli counter. Pig Out chips come in a they hope the change is “People are seeing how shifting their full-sized bag, comparable to permanent. diets to consuming more nutrient-dense a bag of potato chips, with 3.5 HealthFocus’s Steven products is better for their health,” Azzara ounces of chips in the bag and Walton says that, as says. “They’re also seeing that it’s better a suggested retail price of manufacturers improve for the environment.” $4.99. A one-ounce serving has 160 calo - York from imported organic Swedish oats. taste, convenience, availability and price, Glaser agrees with Azzara. “People ries. Glaser says Pig Out chips will be Hälsa boasts that it’s made from simple, the segment will continue to grow. are trying to add more plant-based foods stocked with potato chips and corn chips. clean ingredients. “It’s a lifestyle choice as “The entry points are multiple … and to their diet — for their own health, for “We did not want to be shelved with kale well. The population, as it’s getting more core to consumer beliefs, motivations, the welfare of animals, and for the envi - chips or coconut chips,” he says. diverse, there are more people who are lifestyles and interests,” he says. “Oppor - ronment,” he says. “The tastiest foods Packaged Facts says vegetable snacks lactose-intolerant. That’s also something tunity for growth and new products [in are found in the snack aisle, and snack like Pig Out chips are the most popular that increases with age – we are less and plant-based foods] is strong, and we are in foods offer the convenience of trying of the alternative-ingredient snacks, less tolerant of milk sugars as we age. So, for an exciting time.” something without a big commitment. with 45 percent of the dollar sales in many people want to reduce the amount of While healthy snacks may have once Plant-based snacks open the door; they that category. The category includes dairy products they eat, but a lot of the meant dutifully chowing down on some - offer a gateway to trying other plant- vegetable chips such as Terra Chips and non-dairy yogurts include gelling agents thing flavorless and boring, that’s no based products.” n

Fresh Thinking food landscape over the past 35 years has that used to be considered to have a multi - tailers do to attract their Hispanic cus - Continued from Page 1 changed from people wanting to embrace cultural flavor profile now displayed with tomers will also attract all customers. “By Americanness to people wanting to em - the main grocery items. “I’m thinking of 2020, more than 50 percent of youth will from Latin America – all of South Amer - brace a global flavor profile. People want Gatorade, which used to have tamarind and be multicultural, and one-fifth of kids will ica and some people from English- and more authenticity from their multicultural melon flavors that were clearly aimed at be Hispanic,” he says. French-speaking countries in the food when they’re going outside their own Hispanic customers. Now those same fla - Perra, who said he lived in South Amer - Caribbean. One is linguistic; the other is culture.” vors are clearly positioned in the cooler ica for many years, says retailers have two geographic.” These shifts in flavor preferences aren’t with the rest of the Gatorade products.” “need stakes” – to provide a taste of home As a Cultural Anthropologist for the generational. Practically speaking, Hispanic cus - for their customers, and to know their cus - agency, Richardson says, his job is to ad - “It’s not just Millennial and Gen Z,” tomers drive the multicultural market, ac - tomers’ cultural traditions. vise clients on how to reach all those dif - Robinson says. “America has changed so cording to statistics from NPD’s Retail One thing that’s different about multi - ferent kinds of customers effectively. much over the past 35 or 40 years – no - Tracking Service. “After years of being in cultural customers, says fluent360’s “One of the keys is that your multicul - body wants to live on meat and potatoes the doldrums, U.S. retail spending showed Robinson, is that, “Retailers need to re - tural customers don’t live a life separate anymore. People want spice, they want a significant uptick in the first quarter of member that multicultural consumers may from your total market customers,” he sweet. Think about Lay’s, and how 2018, and Hispanic communities are a key be traveling farther to get to these stores, says. “Separating the products you think they’ve changed up their chips. It used to contributor,” NPD says. so it doesn’t do anything to stock smaller they’ll want from your mainstream prod - be that you could get regular, barbecue Hispanic and Asian customers spend packaging – it’s better to stock larger ucts can make them feel exotic and unac - and maybe sour cream-and-onion. Now more than six percent of their income on sizes.” cepted.” For that reason, he says, retailers they offer chicken-and-waffle, sriracha – food outside the home, says the U.S. Bu - But retailers shouldn’t forget that their should shelve products that will interest all kinds of flavor combinations. That reau of Labor Statistic’s Consumer Expen - multicultural customers are also members multicultural customers with similar prod - speaks of the diversity of experience, and diture Survey. African-American and of their generation and make buying deci - ucts that mainstream customers seek. the desire for authenticity in flavor across White customers spend just over five per - sions in the same way their peers in other Total market customers’ tastes have the board – for all age demographics and cent of their income that way. market segments do, says Perra. Millen - changed as America has changed over the all populations.” Rick Perra, a consultant whose expertise nial multicultural customers will shop like last several decades, he says. “Overall, the He notes that, in Chicago, he sees chips is the Hispanic market, says the things re - Millennials everywhere. n

October 2018 SNACKING NEWS 9 Dutch Company Adds 2 New Products to North American Line

BY ROBIN MATHER with other traditionally imported prod - long traditions, she said. Based in Amers - A farmer-owned company, the fifth ucts, with a suggested retail price of foort, the company has more than 18,600 largest dairy worldwide, has introduced $3.99 to $4.99. owners and more than 23,000 employees two new lines to its North American of - The cracker cuts come in a seven-ounce in offices in 34 countries. The company ferings. package, laid out on a tray with exports to FrieslandCampina showcased its new a peel-and-reseal top in two more than 100 Gouda Snacks and its cracker cuts in rows of cheese. They ship in a countries, and Gouda and Maasdam at IDBBA in June in display-ready case, making it had sales of New Orleans, easy for con - $14 billion last Louisiana, said sumers to select. year, Seife Debbie Seife, Suggested retail said. Marketing Di - for the cracker Until re - and aged Gouda and wheels of Maas - rector, North cuts is also $3.99 cently, the dam, the company also makes Edam, America. to $4.99. company spe - sold in its traditional red-wax ball, and a The Gouda Some customers cialized in line of five beechwood-smoked Gouda Snacks are 20- may not be famil - whole and items. gram individ - iar with Maasdam large blocks of It also sells shaved goat cheese, aged ual easy-peel cheese, Seife said. cheese sold for 20 weeks, in a different form than snacks, pack - It’s a semi-firm cheese with wholesale, so these new products represent the more familiar crumbles, Seife said. aged eight to a big Swiss-like eyes, a a shift in the company’s retail approach. “It has a really delicious flavor and a gusseted re - creamy texture and sweet, “We’ve been shipping cheese to the U.S. slightly crumbly texture. You can use it sealable bag buttery flavor. It melts well, for almost 50 years,” Seife said. “We’re in salads, soups, over pasta and on flat - with a peg making it good for cooking not new to the U.S., but the focus wasn’t breads.” hole for easy as well as snacking. Like the thing that it is today. Now we’re fo - For more information about Friesland - retailer dis - Gouda, it is named for a city cused on value-added branded items and Campina, visit www.frieslandcampina play. Con - in Holland. growing our Dutch portfolio.” .com or call its offices in Paramus, New sumers will find them in the deli case FrieslandCampina is a company with In addition to wheels of mild, medium Jersey, at 551.497.7300. n Whole Foods Lauds gimMe Snacks gimMe Snacks, the organic seaweed snack honor for producer partners that exem - organic seaweed snacks and we could not of producing and processing its seaweed. brand, received an award for best Organic plify the company’s mission and values. be more pleased.” gimMe uses only sustainably grown sea - Commitment at the annual Whole Foods The awards spotlight best-in-class sup - gimMe started its national partnership weed to create its line of delicious snacks Market Supplier Awards held in April. plier partners for innovation, environ - with Whole Foods in 2013, and quickly that are organic, gluten free, non-GMO gimMe stood out among other brands for mental stewardship, responsible became the top-selling seaweed brand and vegan. offering a differentiated, certified organic sourcing and commitment to quality carried by the market. Now, the gimMe Based in northern California, gimMe seaweed product portfolio in the growing standards. brand is a best seller among all other was founded by food entrepreneurs Annie functional snacks category. “It’s a real honor to be recognized by functional snack brands including beef Chun and Steve Broad, who, in 2012, rec - Created by Annie Chun, gimMe Snacks’ Whole Foods Market for our commitment jerky, bean snacks, fruit snacks, and kale ognized an opportunity to adapt a tradi - organic seaweed Thins, Chips, and to using only certified organic ingredi - chips. tional yet convenient and healthy Korean Roasted Snacks continue to resonate with ents,” said Steve Broad, co-Founder and gimMe has long been a trailblazer in favorite to a healthy snack in flavors that Whole Foods Market’s shoppers. Chief Executive Officer of gimMe Snacks. creating certified organic seaweed snacks, would entice American palates. The annual Whole Foods Market Sup - “This award symbolizes years of hard influencing its suppliers to adopt U.S. De - Learn more about gimMe at www plier Awards are the company’s highest work in creating the first USDA-approved partment of Agriculture-approved methods .gimmehealth.com. n Skippy Introduces PB-Covered Fruit Snacks

Just in time for back to school, the maker convenient, on-the-go snack, combining Skippy peanut butter family of products able pouches, offering a perfectly-sized of Skippy™ peanut but - the undeniably smooth and a perfect snack for peanut butter and snacking solution with 4 grams of protein. ter has launched Skippy taste of Skippy peanut jelly lovers across the country.” Found in the peanut butter aisle, P.B. Fruit Bites, a line of butter and real dried Skippy P.B. Fruit Bites, which have a bite-sized real dried fruit fruit,” said Aly Sill, Skippy P.B. Fruit Bites suggested retail price in the range of covered in a smooth Brand Manager at Skippy P.B. Fruit Bites come in two vari - $3.29 to $3.69, are available in select re - coating made with Hormel Foods. “We eties: strawberry-flavored dried cranberry tailers across the country. For more in - Skippy peanut butter. are thrilled to intro - and dried grape – providing the classic formation about all Skippy peanut butter “We took the classic duce Skippy P.B. Fruit taste of peanut butter and jelly in one bite. products, including recipes, nutritional peanut butter and jelly Bites as the next mem - Portable and poppable, Skippy P.B. information and where to buy, visit flavor and created a ber of the iconic Fruit Bites are available in 4-ounce reseal - www.peanutbutter.com. n

10 SNACKING NEWS October 2018 Columbus Adds Salami Flavors, Snack Sizes

Columbus has upped its snacking game then, the Columbus brand has grown 18 per - paired with White Cheddar Cheese, Genoa and continued to innovate with Millennials cent. And we always keep to our San Fran - Salame paired with Provolone Cheese and in mind by delivering delicious meat in cisco heritage and love for craft meats.” Pepperoni paired with Fontina Cheese. convenient, on-the-go formats. The Columbus Salami & Cheese snacks Additionally, the company’s most popu - In May 2018, the company launched include the company’s recently-launched lar salami flavors are now available in a naturally occurring in culture celery juice three Columbus™ Salami & Cheese salami flavors made from pork raised without convenient snack size. These salami snacks powder. The varieties are Original Italian Snacks as well as four salami flavors in antibiotics and no added nitrates or nitrites, are easily tossed into a purse, backpack or Dry Salame, Genoa Salame, Pork Raised snack-portioned packaging. except for those naturally occurring in celery grabbed while on-the-go. They include Without Antibiotics Ever Uncured Italian “Innovation drives our company’s growth, juice powder. Columbus paired these salami four varieties, two of the company’s fan fa - Dry Salame and Pork Raised Without An - and snacks have played a large role in that flavors with tasty rBST-free cheeses in one vorite flavors and two that are made from tibiotics Ever Uncured Pepperoni. growth since 2016,” said Lauren Keller, Sen - hearty, snack-portioned serving. The three pork raised without antibiotics and without To learn more, visit the Columbus web - ior Brand Manager at Columbus. “Since flavor combinations are: Italian Dry Salame added nitrates or nitrites, except for those site at www.columbuscraftmeats.com. n Homegrown Meats Jerky Now Available Nationally at Whole Foods Four flavors of Homegrown Meats Jerky as a leading brand in the all-natural jerky range from sweet to progressively spicy: ner in Homegrown. The owners of Home - — Joel’s Traditional, Western Mesquite category and opening the door for long- Tangy Orange Teriyaki, Western Mesquite grown Cattle Company are committed to Barbeque, Cracked Black Pepper and term growth and partnership.” Barbeque, Paleo, Joel’s Traditional, Carne humanely raised and cared for animals re - Paleo —will debut nationwide through “We are extremely proud of the Home - Asada, Cracked Black Pepper, Sriracha sulting in a beef product of high caliber. Whole Foods Market stores. grown Meats team for their recent global Style, Gringo Bandito, and Smoking Hot Homegrown Meats beef jerky was pre - Based in San Diego, California, Home - expansion at Whole Foods Market, and Jalapeño. Each Homegrown jerky flavor is viously available in the Whole Foods Mar - grown Meats has already developed a follow - look forward to sharing their delicious, 100 gluten free, made without nitrates or ni - ket’s Southern Pacific and Rocky ing along the West Coast for its handcrafted, percent grass-fed jerky with our shoppers trites and with no artificial flavors, no ar - Mountain regions and is now available in grass-fed and grass-finished jerky. Crafted to around the country,” said Jason Kro - tificial colors and no artificial sweeteners. Whole Foods Market stores nationwide. In ‘fuel the journey,’ Homegrown jerky uses likowski, Global Category Manager for Homegrown will continue to expand its addition to Whole Foods Market, Home - clean ingredients to supply a sustainable, de - Whole Foods Market. “It has been a testa - jerky selection with the creation of addi - grown Meats is available in non-traditional licious and healthy protein snack. ment to our commitment to support local tional flavors and specialty collaboration retail outlets including golf courses and re - “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity suppliers and products to watch this brand projects. sorts, health and wellness stores, universi - to extend our footprint nationwide with grow from a small San Diego-based artisan Homegrown Cattle Company, a busi - ties, breweries, corporate offices, Whole Foods Market,” says Thad Ben - beef jerky producer, into a leading brand in ness that was started on a sixth-generation professional sports facilities and outdoor shoof, co-Founder of Homegrown Meats. the all-natural jerky category with a loyal cattle ranch owned by the Mendenhall retailers. “This is an exciting opportunity for the following and strong national footprint.” family and located in the hills of Palomar For more information, visit www.home Homegrown Meats family, positioning us The brand offers nine flavor options that Mountain in southern California, is a part - grownmeats.com. n Jack Link’s Targets Back to School Sales

Jack Link’s is targeting school lunch boxes create a high-quality, portable snack that ents and nutritional value, the company tute sweet treats for meat treats, enabling with new lunchbox size, multipack meat not only tastes great, but delivers on high noted. them to fill up on great-tasting beef sticks sticks; available in two 100% Beef flavors protein so our kids can give each day their Fortified with 6g of protein, Jack Link’s that are packed with protein,” said Dixon. (Original & Pepperoni) and Original 100% full potential.” sticks provide the staying power kids need Now available in the meat snacks aisle Turkey. “We are committed to delivering Jack Link’s marketing will promote the to power through their day. Whether it’s at major retailers nationwide, the lunch - quality products for our consumers, and protein-packed meat sticks as a better practice, homework or just kids being kids, box-friendly snack provides 10 individu - our kids are no exception to that commit - lunchbox option than sugary fruit cups and this meat stick delivers on a great tasting ally wrapped sticks and serves as the ment,” said TD Dixon, Chief Marketing crackers. While some snacking options lunchbox snacking offering nothing less ultimate solution to throw in a backpack Officer at Jack Link’s. “We saw a need to sacrifice quality, others sacrifice ingredi - than 100 percent. “We want kids to substi - or lunchbox this school year. n Pernicious Pickling Co. Debuts Bloody Mary Bar In A Jar

Pernicious Pickling Co., maker of multiple bar – pickle spears, celery, carrots, beans, brine brightened with lime and cayenne – “From our beginnings, we have always award-winning small batch pickles and asparagus, and okra. perfect for layering into a slow-cooked strived to create high-quality, bold and pickled vegetables, has expanded its offer - Cowboy Candy has a mix of thin slices pulled pork spicy taco, stirring into a memorable products for our consumers ing with five new products, including Pick - of pickles and jalapeños in a sweet brine Southwestern salad, or mixing into a spicy and we are very excited with the launch of led Vegetables: Bloody Mary Bar In A Jar brightened with lime and cayenne – per - Margarita. these new flavors as they represent the (Original or Spicy), Sweet Hot Pickles, fect for layering into burgers and tacos, Lil’ Southern Heat is pickled okra that’s next step in our mission of creating great Sweet Pickled Jalapeños, and Pickled Okra. stirring into potato salad, or mixing into a crunchy with a tinge of heat and garlic. pickled products” says Baron Conway, Bloody Mary Bar In A Jar come in two Rodeo Lemonade Cocktail or Sweet ‘N Traditionally the go-to garnish for Bloody Chief Operating Officer and co-Founder flavors, original and spicy and are 24- Spicy Whiskey Sour. Marys, pickled okra can also be chopped of Pernicious Pickling Co. ounce medleys of every pickled garnish Pernicious Pickling’s Jalapeño Kisses and tossed into a shrimp, corn and tomato All products are available for purchase one needs to create an epic Bloody Mary have thin sliced jalapeños in a spicy-sweet pasta or top creole deviled eggs. online and at select retailers. n October 2018 SNACKING NEWS 11 SAVORY

Bonk Breaker’s Bars Contain Green Valley Creamery Adds Collagen and Grass-Fed Whey Lactose-Free Cottage Cheese Bonk Breaker’s history of delivering fresher, tastier, and healthier nu - Green Valley Creamery (formerly Green Valley Organics) con - trition bars continues with Premium Protein Bars that use a cutting- tinues to expand its award-winning line of lactose-free, real edge blend of pasture-raised collagen protein and grass-fed whey dairy products with the introduction of organic, lactose-free for an all-natural, low-calorie, low-carbohydrate offering. cottage cheese. Green Valley Creamery cottage cheese is now Premium Protein Bars are under 200 calories with low net carbo - available nationwide at a suggested retail price of $5.29 per hydrates, made with all-natural, non-GMO ingredients, prebiotic fiber 12-ounce cup at New Seasons Market on the West Coast, Roundy’s and Mariano’s in the Midwest, MOM’s for digestive health and without artificial sugars or sugar alcohols. A Organic Markets in the Northeast, and other natural food stores and co-ops throughout the U.S. blend of collagen and whey provides all nine amino acids for a vital As the only certified organic, lactose-free and FODMAP-friendly cottage cheese in the U.S., Green source of complete protein. Valley Creamery’s cottage cheese has a rich, creamy taste and mild cultured flavor. It is made with simple, Collagen makes up 30 percent of the human body and has been shown to support joint health, stimulate clean ingredients – organic milk and cream, Celtic sea salt, lactase enzyme, and live, active cultures. a healthy metabolism, and promote healthy brain function. Collagen is not a complete protein on its own With 4 percent milk fat, it contains no additives and is made without any gums, stabilizers or preservatives. because it’s missing the essential amino acid tryptophan, which is why Bonk Breaker’s proprietary recipe Each serving provides 12g of protein and only 3g of carbohydrates. Cottage cheese can be served blends grass-fed whey and collagen. simply with fruit, nuts or granola, or enjoyed with savory toppings like tomato, olive oil and black pepper. Premium Protein Bars are currently available in three flavors, Double Fudge Brownie, Cookies & It also gives a hearty, high-protein boost to recipes like pancakes, muffins or quiches. Cream, and Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Chip. Each offers 15 grams of protein. All Bonk Breaker bars are all natural, using real ingredients that are GMO free, paleo friendly, and gluten free. Green Valley Creamery 707.823.8250 Bonk Breaker www.greenvalleylactosefree.com 310.315.4129 www.bonkbreaker.com Snack Factory Adds New Pretzel Crisp Flavors Snack Factory, a recent addition to The Campbell Soup Company’s snack Wilde Chicken Chips Revolutionize portfolio, has launched two new flavorful additions to the Pretzel Crisps ® Snacking Nationwide line — Sourdough and Cinnamon Sugar. Wilde, a natural and healthy foods start-up on a mission to Artisan Style Snack Factory Sourdough Pretzel Crisps deliver an au - innovate snacking, announces nationwide availability of its thentic tangy sourdough flavor that consumers love with Pretzel Crisps Chicken Chips at Whole Foods Markets nationwide and products’ light crunch. With this classic flavor, Snack Factory Sourdough forecasts availability in an additional 1,000 retailers by end Pretzel Crisps pair perfectly with deli meats, cheeses and spreads. of 2018. Debut flavors include Barbecue, Sea Salt & Vinegar, For those with a sweet tooth, new Deli Style Snack Factory Cinnamon Jalapeño, and Buffalo. Sugar Pretzel Crisps are generously seasoned with cinnamon and sugar Wilde Chicken Chips are the un-potato chips — a simple recipe of whole food, nutrient-dense ingredients: for the perfect sweet-and-salty treat. Snack Factory Cinnamon Sugar Pretzel Crisps can be enjoyed premium cuts of 100 percent natural chicken, tapioca flour and coconut oil. Wilde Chips capture all the char - straight from the bag or paired with fresh fruit, whipped topping or chocolate dips. acteristics of a classic chip: thin and crisp texture, crunch you can hear, a flavor explosion and indulgence. At around 100 calories per serving, these new additions continue Snack Factory’s tradition of snacks Chicken Chips offer 15 grams of protein per 2.25-ounce bag, no refined sugar and no more than 1 gram packed full of flavor and versatility. Find the new Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps in the deli section nationwide. of sugar per serving, and are grain-free, gluten-free certified, Paleo Certified and Non-GMO Project ver - Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Snack Factory products are distributed nationally through grocery ified. Chicken & Waffles, the first salty sweet Chicken Chips, are to debut early fall 2018. stores, mass merchandisers, convenience stores and club stores.

Wilde Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps 720.328.0843 800.233.7125 www.wildebrands.com www.pretzelcrisps.com Vermont Smoke & Cure Debuts Grass-fed Beef Sticks Fabrique Délices Introduces Vermont Smoke & Cure has introduced grass-fed beef sticks in two flavors, Pâté & Crackers Snack Packs soy-free Maple Teriyaki and Jalapeño-Lime. Perfect for an office lunch, a picnic, an outdoor concert and more, Fabrique The one-ounce snacks have 80 calories, with seven to eight grams of pro - Délices has launched its newest combination: Pâté & Crackers Snack tein, and no more than one gram of sugar each. They have no sodium nitrate, Pack. The package includes seven ounces of truffle mousse and three and are gluten-free, as well as being made from meat that is 100 percent ounces of organic flatbread crackers, with a suggested retail price of $9.99. grass-fed and finished. Since 1985, Fabrique Délices has produced artisanal, authentic pâtés The Maple-Teriyaki flavor is made with maple sugar, molasses, evapo - and other charcuterie products from French recipes. rated can sugar, sea salt, celery juice powder, garlic powder, sesame oil, “We’re still traditional, artisanal,” said Sebastien Espinasse, Vice cherry juice powder, ginger extractives, and a lactic acid starter culture, and President of Sales and Marketing. are are encased in beef collagen casings. “We have some equipment to grind and mix ingredients, but then everything is made by hand.” The Jalapeño-Lime flavor uses dried jalapeño pepper powder and jalapeño extractives, lime leaf pow - The company produces Pâtés, Mousses, Saucisson Sec, Magret, Duck Confit, Rillette, Garlic Sausage, der and lime oil, as well as other flavors and spices. Merguez, Saucisse de Toulouse, Boudin Noir, Boudin Blanc and other specialty foods. The sticks are packed in a 24-count carton that can stand up or lie down for easy customer access.

Fabrique Délices Vermont Smoke & Cure 510.441.9500 802.482.4666 www.fabriquedelices.com www.vermontsmokeandcure.com

Dietz & Watson Originals Line Continues to Grow Arnold, Brownberry and Oroweat Bread Dietz & Watson has added a large variety of new items to its Origi - Relaunch Sandwich Thins nals line to respond to growth in the better-for-you snacking cate - Arnold ®, Brownberry ® and Oroweat ® Bread have announced the relaunch gory. They include Organic Beef Jerky in 2.5-ounce resealable of Sandwich Thins ® Rolls. Originally launched in 2008, the new formula serves pouches, three varieties of 2.2-ounce pouched olives imported from modern consumers’ desire for delicious products that use quality ingredients. Italy, 12-ounce Roasted Red and Yellow Peppers, Tri-color Sweety Baked with premium ingredients, each new variety is packed with whole Peppers and Sweety Pepper Drops and mixed packs of Piquillo Pep - grains and made with olive oil and sea salt. These perfectly-sized Sandwich pers with Artichoke Quarters, Artichoke Halves and Eggplant. Thins Rolls are ideal for any on-the-go balanced lifestyle and feature a softer The line wouldn’t be complete without some classic proteins, so it also includes some No Antibiotics and fluffier texture with even more great toppings. Three varieties are avail - Ever Italian specialty chubs including Truffle Salami, Sopressata, Pepper Salami, Chorizo, Genoa Salami able nationwide, including Multigrain, baked with an assortment of whole and an Herb de Provence Salami. grains; 100 Percent Whole Wheat, a nutritious variety that offers rich flavor Rounding out the new line of snacking items are 4-ounce packs of meat and cheese medallions and and is a good source of fiber; and Honey Wheat, with hints of honey that mini paninos that include pepperoni, genoa salami or prosciutto wrapped over mozzarella cheese. complement sea salt. Arnold, Brownberry and Oroweat Sandwich Thins Rolls retail for $3.99. Dietz & Watson 800.333.1974 Arnold, Brownberry and Orowheat www.dietzandwatson.com www.arnoldbread.com • www.brownberry.com • www.oroweat.com

12 SNACKING NEWS October 2018 Hungarian Chocolatier’s Prize-Winning Products Now in U.S.

BY ROBIN MATHER very much bean to bar,” says AnnaLisa. profile he was seeking. In the end, his pref - and American pecans. Two American sisters based in Florida Meszaros began making chocolate in erence was for Trinitario chocolate from “Every step is done by hand,” AnnaLisa have begun importing the internationally 2009. A video on www.chocome.com Peru combined with beans from the Do - says. The confections are manufactured acclaimed products of Hungarian Gabor shows Meszaros working alongside minican Re - Meszaros’ confection company, ChocoMe. cocoa farmers in every step of produc - public. AnnaLisa and Esther Underhay, both tion, from harvest to fermentation under Meszaros says harpists who have traveled banana leaves in purpose-made the flavor de - extensively abroad, became wooden crates and drying in di - scriptors for friends with Meszaros and rect sunlight on shallow wooden ChocoMe now import his chocolates trays rolled in and out of sheds chocolate are through their Finest Imports as tropical rains threaten. When “convincing company. The sisters are co- the beans are delivered for cocoa taste, Owners of Finest Imports, roasting, each variety needs its dominant with AnnaLisa acting as own specific time and tempera - sourness, red Marketing Director and Es - ture, but careful roasting is the fruity notes, ther as Director of Opera - key to developing flavor and and lingering tions. aroma, he says. Then the aftertaste.” ChocoMe produces Entrée bars as well roasted beans are crushed with rollers, The bars as 100-gram (about three and a half- the chaff is blown away and the bean and squares ounces) boxes, called “Raffinée,” which fragments –the nibs – are cooked to re - feature hand- means “sophisticated” or “cultured” in lease the cocoa butter. laid inclusions of freeze-dried fruits and just outside Budapest, and the company French. It also makes 50-gram squares He sources cacao from Caribbean coun - flowers as well as nuts, candied citrus employs more than 35 people to make its called “Carré,” and all Entrée bar flavors tries because that is where cacao origi - peels, herbs and edible gold and edible sil - products. nated, he says in the ver. Each is a hand-crafted work of art. ChocoMe has racked up dozens of video. He explains “It’s pretty incredible – that’s what we awards, from the Great Taste Awards in the that there are four hear over and over,” AnnaLisa says. “The United Kingdom, the Academy of Choco - varieties of cacao: freeze-drying process is unique – very late and the International Chocolate Criollo, “extremely slow, so it preserves the essence of the Awards. rare and exception - fruit and flowers. Every aspect of produc - “This is an interesting time in Hungary,” ally flavorful;” tion is unique, with so much attention to AnnaLisa says. “Not many Americans Forestero, widely detail.” know much about Hungary – and I didn’t, grown in Africa and ChocoMe’s products range from 40 per - either, until I married a Hungarian.” Hun - South America; cent to 65 percent cacao, and some white gary became a democracy in 1989, and Trinitario, a cross chocolate products are available, too. “this is the first democratic generation, so between Criollo and Some signature bars offer as much as 77 there are lots of entrepreneurs and every - Forestero; and Na - percent cacao. thing in top notch.” cional, grown only Freeze-dried fruits include strawberries, ChocoMe is available in more than 50 in Equador, and in raspberries, peach, cherries, black cur - countries, but the Underhays are the sole small quantities. rants, blackberries and cranberries, she importers for the U.S. ChocoMe products are available as Carrés. Meszaros says that he learned a great deal said. Rose and violet petals, jasmine and are currently available in hotel amenities Meszaros sources his chocolate from the by spending time talking to the men and spearmint are all crystallized before inclu - shops, spas, gourmet stores, cheese shops Caribbean and South America, and works women who grow cacao. sion, and the nuts are carefully sourced as and wine shops. with a chef outside Paris, France, to make Next, he traveled to France to work with well – almonds and Bronte pistachios from For more information, visit www.finest his proprietary blends of chocolate. “It’s food scientists to develop the exact flavor Sicily, hazelnuts from Italy’s Piedmont, imports.us or call 305.846.0073. n DAHlicious Organic Launches Single Serve Lassi

DAHlicious Organic™, maker of organic, mango lassi in Costco stores across the rich and strengthen our partnership with Basket, Select Safeway stores, Whole India-style, probiotic-rich lassi and yogurt, United States and Canada. Costco with the addition of our single Foods and select specialty retailers. The announced the launch of its new single- Lassi (pronounced lus’-see), is Hindi serve lassi in an eight-count multipack,” company expects its products to be avail - serve 10-ounce lassi. Costco was the for a yogurt drink, made in the 4,000- said Tom Burns, Chief Executive Officer able at additional national retailers this launch partner for this new product, de - year handcrafted, slow-cultured tradi - of DAHlicious Organic. “Single-serve of - year. signed for portability and personal con - tion of India. DAHlicious Organic is the fers the opportunity for easy, on-the-go DAHlicious Organic has three slow- sumption. Costco carries one SKU of the only yogurt company specifically dedi - consumption and personalized choice for cultured product lines: India-style or - single-serve lassi: an assorted eight-pack cated to slow-culturing. This unique the consumer.” ganic grass-fed whole milk Lassi yogurt of four Alphonso Mango and four Field culturing method creates a rich and Burns continued, “This new form factor drink - 60 billion probiotics per bottle; Strawberry lassi for $12.99. Costco stores smooth texture, complex flavors and also positions DAHlicious Organic lassi India-style organic almond milk lassi in the Northeast, Southeast and Southwest high probiotic counts, which are sus - perfectly as a snack, which is the way our yogurt drink – 60 billion probiotics per regions began to offer the multipack start - tained throughout the shelf life of the customers enjoy lassi the most. The eight- bottle; and India-style organic almond ing in July. product. Both sizes of the lassi are count multipack also delivers tremendous milk cup yogurt — 15 billion probiotics The club store chain is an existing retail USDA organic, made with organic value for Costco shoppers.” per cup. partner for DAHlicious Organic, which grass-fed whole milk. DAHlicious Organic products can be For more information visit www currently offers a two-pack of 32-ounce “DAHlicious Organic is excited to en - found at Costco, Costco Canada, Market .dahlicious.com. n

October 2018 SNACKING NEWS 13 Fans Name Crunchy Mint Their Favorite M&M Flavor Earlier this year, M&M’S launched three Crunchy Mint as the winning flavor. next flavor of M&M’S,” says Allison Mi - dark chocolate wrapped in the brand’s sig - brand-new, limited-edition flavors, Crunchy Mint joined the M&M’S line- azga-Bedrick, Brand Director, M&M’S. nature colorful crispy shell with a cocoa Crunchy Espresso, Crunchy Raspberry and up in August and will continue to be sold “We love providing our fans with oppor - rice crisp center. M&M’S Crunchy Mint is Crunchy Mint, and a marketing campaign at U.S. stores for an 18-month period tunities to have their voices heard, and we offered in a 2.83-ounce size intended for in which the brand asked its fans to choose (while supplies last). look forward to finding more ways to do sharing and an 8-ounce stand-up pouch. their favorite flavor. After millions of taste “Our fans have spoken and once again so in the future.” For more information, visit M&M’S at tests nationwide, M&M’S has announced played an influential role in choosing the M&M’S Crunchy Mint is made with www.mms.com. n National Confectioners Association Promotes Three Senior Leaders National Confectioners Association We have established a powerful, favorable her new role, Clark will lead NCA’s fed - relations activity and a new integrated (NCA) President and CEO John Downs narrative for our industry, recruited high- eral, state and local government affairs and marketing communications operation has announced the promotion of three key caliber CEOs and senior executives to PAC strategy, as well as work closely with that is essential to the association’s abil - senior leaders that will unlock operational serve on our board of trustees, modernized the scientific/regulatory team to support ity to effectively communicate the efficiency and effectiveness, bolster the our governance process, and achieved our NCA member companies. breadth of tools and resources available membership value proposition, and con - financial growth targets to fuel our advo - Christopher Gindlesperger, currently to assist members in their business and tinue to enhance the organization’s advo - cacy and communications initiatives,” Vice President of Public Affairs and in the marketplace. cacy, communications, industry affairs, Downs said. Communications, has been promoted to Downs also announced that NCA Chief and regulatory support for the 620 manu - In the past year, NCA has established Senior Vice President of Public Affairs of Staff Elise Fennig has been promoted to facturers, suppliers and brokers that are the industry’s big ideal – the Always A and Communications. In his new capac - Chief of Staff and Senior Vice President of members of NCA. Treat Initiative – which proactively posi - ity, Gindlesperger will lead a revamped Operations. Fennig will continue to have “In less than four years we’ve made tions the confectionery industry as a department that is fully integrated into all oversight of human resources, IT, and op - tremendous progress on our transforma - thought leader with consumers and in the functions across the organization and fo - erations at NCA, and assumes responsibil - tional change journey, having created a food policy space. cused on ensuring consistency of mes - ity for the continued integration of the positive brand identity for NCA, built a Liz Clark, currently Vice President of saging, as well as recruiting, educating industry affairs, global business develop - clear and compelling strategic plan, and Government Affairs, has been promoted to and activating key stakeholder groups. ment, meetings and membership opera - executed the plan with laser-like precision. Senior Vice President of Public Policy. In Gindlesperger will also oversee all media tions. n Rice Krispies Creates Specialized ‘Love Notes’ for Blind Children

Rice Krispies Treats™ developed writable three children, I know that love and sup - 1,000 times, offering opportu - wrappers for parents and family members port are critical to every child’s success. nities to share love and support to send their children encouraging mes - We are delighted to partner with Rice throughout the entire school sages in their lunch boxes. However, Rice Krispies Treats, which shares our commit - year. Krispies Treats realized there are over ment to inclusion and Braille literacy, to The Kellogg company as a 62,000 children who are blind and low-vi - make sure blind students can get accessi - whole has a larger connection sion in schools across the United States ble ‘Love Notes’ in their lunch boxes this to this cause because W.K. unable to experience important handwrit - back-to-school season.” Kellogg, having lost his sight ten notes of support, so the company has The ‘Love Notes’ Braille stickers are for the last decade of his life, partnered with the National Federation of heart-shaped to match the space on Rice continued to work at the com - the Blind to create the first-ever accessible Krispies Treats writable wrappers for writ - pany full time for a number of ‘Love Notes’ in the form of Braille stickers ten notes. Each Braille sticker sheet also years afterwards, said Jessica and re-recordable audio boxes so parents includes eight uplifting phrases for parents Waller, Vice President of Sales and family members can share messages to share with their children, from “You’ve and co-chair of Kapable Busi - of love and encouragement with these Got This” to “Love You Lots.” ness/Employee Resource children. For children who are auditory learners Group at Kellogg. “Inclusion “The National Federation of the Blind is or don’t read Braille, the re-recordable is in our DNA and is now shared through inspired by Eme Butler-Mitchell, an 11- committed to helping parents raise blind audio box holds a Rice Krispies Treats Rice Krispies Treats ‘Love Notes.’ Every - year-old student who is blind and who children prepared to be confident, happy crispy marshmallow square inside and one is important, and we want each child spreads love through her musical talents. and productive members of society,” said when opened, plays a 10-second pre- to be able to feel loved, supported and ac - Kellogg and Rice Krispies Treats were in - Mark Riccobono, President of the National recorded auditory message. The audio box knowledged.” troduced to Butler-Mitchell by the Na - Federation of the Blind. “As a father of messages can be re-recorded more than Rice Krispies Treats ‘Love Notes’ were tional Federation of the Blind. n

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SWEET

Abdallah Candies Introduces Retreats Sweet Shop Fit: Abdallah Candies Retreats are bite-sized chocolates packaged in Organic Chocolate Snacks personal, portable, resealable stand-up candy pouches. Their perfect Sweet Shop Candies, Inc. has unveiled a new size allows you to indulge, enjoy and to escape from the moment. healthy-ingredient collection of organic choco - Each three-serving bag of Retreats is brightly colored. They are late snacks under its new Sweet Shop Fit ® available in nine varieties. They include four amazing sorbets – Rasp - brand. berry, Orange, Pina Colada and Lemon — which are uniquely fresh, Healthy snacks and on-the-go snack alter - smooth and dipped in dark bittersweet chocolate; two incredible sea natives have been rising in demand over the salt caramels – one milk chocolate and one dark chocolate — made past five years. The Sweet Shop Fit brand with the famous Abdallah caramel center; and three butter toffees – meets this popular request by including new English, Almond and Cashew — each with buttery flavor and sur - health and wellness-oriented options featuring organic ingredients, super foods, reduced sugar prisingly delicate crunch. The bite-sized pieces are perfect for the and protein-rich ingredients. multi-portion package. Designed for personal consumption, Retreats are for that “just for you” moment. New Sweet Shop Fit products include: Organic Dark Goji Berry Crunch Bar and Milk Chocolate Nut Retreats have been well received by retailers and consumers alike. Each package weighs 2.75 to 3 Bar, both made with organic ingredients. New Sweet Shop Fit will join the Sweet Shop Candies, Inc. ounces. Retreats’ suggested retail is $2.99, and they come in 12-count boxes. family of brands: Sweet Shop USA, Mrs. Weinstein’s Toffee and Price’s Fine Chocolates. Abdallah Candies is a fourth generation, family-owned company producing quality confections since All-natural and made with Belgian chocolate, Sweet Shop USA products are OU kosher certified and 1909. Stop by the company’s booth to taste the new Retreats as well as many other fine quality confec - handcrafted in small batches to ensure the highest quality possible. The Sweet Shop USA collection in - tions. cludes 80 truffle creations, nine signature toffees and toffee corn, snack mixes, cake bites and many chocolate-dipped treats. Abdallah Candies 800.348.7328 Sweet Shop Candies, Inc. www.abdallahcandies.com 903.575.5512 www.sweetshopusa.com New Flavors from The ICEE Company This year The ICEE Company is debuting a variety of exciting new Wildmade Introduces New Line flavors and equipment never before seen in the frozen beverage cat - of Organic Fruit Rolls egory. Veggie-Go’s has launched a new line of Wildmade Organic The ICEE Company has added a sour, spicy twist to the traditional Fruit Rolls with three flavors, including Grape, Tropical Fruit ® flavor lineup with the new ICEE Warheads and Warheads Hot - and Fruit Punch. Each Fruit Roll has a half serving of fruit ® heads flavors. The new flavors include ICEE Warheads Water - per roll with no added sugar and is also USDA certified or - melon, Warheads Hotheads Lava Lime, Warheads Hotheads Piping ganic and non-GMO. Hot Pineapple and Warheads Hotheads Molten Mango. The sour The Wildmade brand brings another better-for you-op - and tart flavors of the top-selling Warheads candy are now available tion to the fruit snacks category, with the same hand - as a sweet and spicy frozen treat. crafted quality and simple ingredients fans have come love The ICEE Company is reinventing conventional flavors and introducing Handcrafted Chill™ , a new from Veggie-Go’s. line of craft beverages with a fresh contemporary look. Handcrafted Chill is a flavor lineup of a variety of Wildmade and Veggie-Go’s full line of better-for-you agua fresca flavors, teas and lemonades. You can expect to see flavors like Watermelon Lime Fresca, fruit and veggie snacks are now available nationwide. Blood Orange Lemonade and Orange Guava Green Tea. Veggie Go’s Wildmade The ICEE Company 888.297.9426 800.423.3872 www.wildmadesnacks.com www.icee.com WOLO Launches New Dairy-Free Premium Desserts Protein Bar for Travelers with Premium Texture WOLO WanderSnacks ®, has launched the WOLO Wan - McConnell’s Dairy-Free Frozen Desserts are made from a derBar™, a protein bar designed specifically for travel. proprietary blend (McConnell’s P3™) of 100 percent mi - The WOLO WanderBar was developed with the needs of cronized pea protein. Pea protein is a sustainable protein savvy travelers in mind. Unlike most protein bars, each derived from yellow peas, the very same plant-based protein WanderBar features two layers comprised of a crispy, found in many of the food industry’s cutting-edge vegetarian crunchy bottom topped with a soft, velvety layer of and dairy-free milk substitutes. The result? McConnell’s nougat that’s sprinkled with premium chocolate chips. Dairy-Free Frozen Desserts line, made from a base that is The bar’s formulation ensures there’s no sticky mess or both neutral in flavor and shares the mouthfeel, and many crumbling and allows for easy tearing and sharing. other characteristics, found in McConnell’s super-smooth, 18.5 percent butterfat ice creams. McConnell’s dairy-free is also lower in fat and sugar, cholesterol-free WOLO WanderSnacks and non-GMO. 844.477.5695 McConnell’s Dairy-Free Frozen Desserts are launching with five flavors, including classic Dark Choco - www.wolosnacks.com late Chip, Toasted Coconut Almond Chip, classic Cookies & Cream, Turkish Coffee and Eureka Lemon & Marionberries, with more to come. Love It! Snack Bars Offer Real Fruit Cherryvale Farms, Inc., makers of Everything But The…™ baking McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams mixes and Instant Indulgence ® individual mug cake mixes, is launch - 805.963.8813 ing Love It! ® snack bars. Just a little sweet, bursting with fruit and www.mcconnells.com drizzled with vanilla or chocolate icing, Love It! snack bars are packed with whole grains and real fruit flavor. Available in three flavors — MadeGood Unveils New Cookies, Granola Banana Chocolate, Blueberry Lemon and Cherry Vanilla —Love It! MadeGood ® has added two new product lines, Soft bars are the first move outside the baking aisle for the brand. Baked Mini Cookies and Crispy Light Granola. These Cherryvale Farms Love It! bars are plant-based, Non-GMO Project snacks and cereals are additions to the MadeGood line verified, egg free, dairy free, nut free and free from preservatives and of school-safe products that include Granola Bars, Gra - artificial colors and flavors. nola Minis and Crispy Squares. They’re easy and con - Cherryvale Farms is a family business, founded by a daughter-fa - venient but also safe for nut-free classrooms, gluten free, certified vegan, organic, non-GMO and kosher ther team who drew inspiration from their own small farm in Santa parve, and they contain a full serving of vegetables. Cruz, California, to create baking mixes everyone can enjoy at home. The new MadeGood Soft Baked Mini Cookies are soft and chewy cookies are available in Chocolate Today, the company offers three product lines, including Instant Indulgence microwave mug cake mixes Chip, Chocolate Banana, Apple Cinnamon and Double Chocolate flavors. and Love It! Whole Grain Snack Bars.

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16 SNACKING NEWS October 2018 SUPPLEMENT TO October 2018 SNACKING NEWS

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BY LORRIE BAUMANN first-place award in its After retiring Jackie Chang is planning to continue making Gold Hill category at the 2018 from Haystack for only another two or three years. Her daughter, Saman - American Cheese Soci - Mountain, Chang tha, Qis now 23 years old, and in a few more years, she’ll ety Judging and Compe - is planning to de - have finished her training as a nurse-practitioner, so at 54, tition. Those awards join part from the U.S. and after 14 years at Haystack Mountain Cheese and 12 a plethora of other ACS as well, perhaps first years as the company’s Head Cheesemaker as well as 23 awards over the past few for a visit to Lyons to years as a single mother, she’s training another cheese - years, including Gold Hill’s first- learn more about French maker and is nearly ready to pack up her cheese room place medal in the category for His - cheesemaking traditions. She boots and hit the road as a free agent. panic and Portuguese-style cheeses in 2018. also dreams of going to Africa to help Cheesemaking is very physical work, and she’s just not She’s also been recognized as an industry leader by the develop a goat cheese industry there. While the sure how long she wants to keep doing it. “You have to Guilde Internationale des Fromagers, which inducted her plans are still unsettled, she’s sure they’ll involve closer make a big commitment. You have to be very diligent, in July, 2017. “She’s a fabulous, talented individual,” said contact with animals, preferably goats. “I have to keep very detail-oriented.... It’s like raising children. Why even David Gremmels, President of Rogue Valley Creamery moving around,” she says. “I’m not one of those sit-there bother having a baby if you’re not going to give them a and a fellow member of the Guilde Internationale. “I’ve people.” good quality of life?” she said. “I think now I should let had the great fortune to know Jackie and follow her career Chang’s experience with cheese began with the Kraft young people do my work.” and admire the work she is doing and the cheese she is Singles that her father bought for the family on Taiwan’s She’ll be leaving Haystack Mountain at the top of her creating. Her personality and passion are truly reflected black market. She remembers trips with him to an un - game, after winning for Gold Hill the title of “Best Amer - in her craft.... I respect her and am proud to know her as derground shop where the Kraft product was the only ican Cheese” at the 2017 World Cheese Awards and a a friend and fellow Guilde member.” cheese on offer. Her father’s business, an import/export

20 SNACKING NEWS October 2018 company, required him to do a lot of moving around cheese similar to Gold Hill, although made with a dif - just requires more effort.” Asia, and when her mother decided that she wanted to ferent culture. Twice a week, she makes another cheese, They simplify some of the logistics by using only mi - stop moving around so much and make a stable home often a Chile Jack. She works five days a week, but crobial rennet for all of the cheeses, which cuts down on for her children, she made that home in Taiwan, while sometimes it’s six days, and that doesn’t count the two the chance that someone in the cheese room is going to her father moved to Korea to make a home base there. or three hours she spends at the creamery on her days reach for the wrong rennet during the make, but it also Her younger brother and sister stayed with their mother off when she stops by to take the cheese out of the brine presents some technical challenges for the aged cheeses. on Taiwan, coming to Korea to visit their father, but or just to make sure that everything’s going well. “If “It’s easy to get bitter flavors from the microbial rennet if Chang won an international student fellowship to attend you have kids, do you have an off day? No, you don’t you don’t know what you’re doing,” Hellmer said. “It school in Korea. She was 18 in 1982 when her father have an off day,” she said. “They are all my babies. does take more knowledge and skill and discipline.... It’s applied to immigrate, with his family, to the United Somebody has to do it.” easier to do it that way than have people trying to make a States through a program that awards residence in the Washed-rind cheeses are very finicky, and while they decision about the rennet.” U.S. to entrepreneurs who are prepared to invest in can be just fine one day, they can be headed for disaster Goat milk cheeses are made seasonally in the summer American business enterprises. “My father invested – a total of about 250,000 pounds a year. Of all her money. At that time, it was the only way to immigrate,” cheeses, Chang prefers the goats. Her body tolerates them Chang said. “He wanted a better life for his kids, but we better than cow milk cheeses, the milk is more interesting weren’t poor.” to work with, and she feels that the flavors of the goat milk Chang’s father used his investment stake to open restau - cheeses are more sophisticated and nuanced. rants in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado, and she Chang also makes cow milk cheeses with organic cow started college in Georgia, eventually entering the Uni - milk from Aurora Dairy, so that the creamery can stay versity of Georgia’s medical school. In 1989, though, her busy year-round. “We make cow cheese just to keep good brother, who was living in Boulder, was diagnosed with a employees,” Chang said. “That’s the only reason we make brain tumor and Chang was called to Colorado to help cow cheese – to keep the good employees so they don’t care for her parents. She went to work for the family there quit.” As a result, Haystack Mountain’s 11-member staff until she burned out and told her family that they’d have includes two people who’ve been there more than 10 years to get along without her at the restaurant. “I told my dad and another few who’ve been there more than five years. I was going to walk out from the restaurant business,” she It’s particularly important for the creamery to keep a said. “I felt like I was standing at a red, yellow, green consistent staff because the goat milk that makes the light.” cheeses that Chang prefers to make comes from a dairy at While she was figuring out what she wanted to do next, the Colorado Correctional Institution that’s staffed prima - she accompanied her daughter’s Brownie troop on a field rily by inmates. Haystack Mountain pays fair market trip to Niwot Farm that sealed her fate. “I saw the baby value for the goat milk, and it’s the only available supply goats, and I said, ‘This is what I want,” she said. “When in Colorado, Hellmer said. I went to Niwot Farm, all I wanted was to take care of the Turnover in the inmate staff, though, guarantees some baby goats.” Once she had a direction, her path took her inconsistencies in the quality of milk that Haystack Moun - to Haystack’s Longmont creamery, which was just open - tain’s tanker truck picks up at the prison. “It’s just like if ing up and needed people. They offered her a chance to you’re making cheese and you keep changing the cheese - work in the cheese room. “All I did was prepare the frozen maker – it’s going to be inconsistent,” Chang said. curd,” she said. She asked the cheesmaker if there was Each load of milk is tested when it arrives at the cream - something more she could do, and that’s when she started ery, but by the time the results come back from the labo - training to become a cheesemaker. In those early days, she ratory, it’s already been made into cheese, so the raw milk faced some skepticism about whether someone with her cheeses are tested again at 60 days, which is the earliest ethnic background, and with the lactose intolerance that they can legally be sold. “We go through lots of tests be - frequently goes with it, was suited to be a cheesemaker. fore we release a batch of raw milk cheese because we’re That skepticism had its roots in racism, Chang is sure, but just not in control of the milk supply,” Chang said. “With she let that motivate rather than discourage her. “There’s raw milk you’re at the mercy of the care that the goats a lot of American people who don’t eat cheese,” she’d have had, what they’ve been eating.” point out. “I just ignored it. I told myself, ‘Okay, I’ll prove It was that inconsistency that led to the development of myself.... I’m not trying to compete with other people. I’m Gold Hill, which is made from pasteurized milk, Hellmer trying to do my best.... It’s not that I try to win. I try to do said. “Jackie and I knew there were times when the milk my best.” quality just wasn’t good enough for raw milk cheese. She moved to Haystack Mountain Creamery 14 years There were cultures she could add that would give it some ago and became Head Cheesemaker in 2006. additional flavors,” he said. “Then we aged it, and it Today, she says that most of what she’s learned about the next, she said. The only way to know for sure what’s turned out to be a pretty good cheese.” making cheese came off the Internet. “She’s worked her happening in the creamery is to be there with eyes and Gold Hill is normally sold when it’s six months old, but butt off, and people are recognizing that,” said Chuck nose open. Some days, the aging room where the wheels the particular wheel that the World Cheese Awards judges Hellmer, President of Haystack Mountain Creamery since of washed-rind cheeses are working their magic smells named “Best American Cheese” was aged for nine 2009. “A lot of people love Jackie. She’s a very humble like turnips, but sometimes it smells more like over- months. Chang entered the cheese not expecting to win person. She’s like a superstar in the cheese industry – and ripened mango. Chang can tell by the smell if the any award at all – she just wanted the judges’ notes. “We she doesn’t get it.... People were very willing to teach her, affineur has skipped a day with the washing. In the don’t enter a lot. If we win, we win. If we don’t, we but she’s learned more from her own discipline and will aging room for natural rind cheeses, she sometimes don’t,” she said. “That was just a surprise.” than from any of the other cheesemakers that Haystack smells hay. “That’s terroir,” she said. “Sometimes I Before the win, Gold Hill was sold mostly to local had before her.... She’s self-made – that’s for sure.” smell celery.” restaurants, but publicity surrounding the award now At Haystack Creamery, her winter work week is only She makes a total of 27 to 30 different cheeses, includ - draws a steady stream of tourists to the creamery so they about 45 hours a week. In the summertime, though, her ing a Gouda that she’s still testing. That’s a lot of cheeses can peer thorough the cheese room’s windows to watch days start at 7 a.m. and end at 6:00 or 6:30, depending for one creamery to make – and even for two – and al - Chang stirring her vat. After their tour, they often want to on when the day’s milk arrives, but it’s not unusual for though the array makes it possible for Haystack Mountain buy a wedge of Gold Hill. “After we won, I started to have it to be 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. before she goes home at night. to offer its local market a wide variety of cheeses, it com - some confidence so we could increase production,” she Her 3,500-pound vat – cut down from a larger vat so plicates the logistics of sourcing the milk, cream and cul - said. that she can stir her curd by hand rather than using the tures for all of them. “It’s a double-edged sword that “It’s a cheese we make from Colorado milk,” Hellmer automated agitator that’s common in other creameries Jackie has the versatility to make all those cheeses. It’s added, “so it’s a statewide phenomenon that everyone – makes 350 pounds of Gold Hill twice a week. Twice neat to be able to go to a market and say that for almost from the state of Colorado should share – that’s my point a week, Chang makes Queso de Mano, a raw goat milk any taste they want, we have a cheese,” Hellmer said. “It of view.” n

October 2018 SNACKING NEWS 21 Confectionery Industry Supports tradeshow calendar More than 600,000 Jobs Nationwide Oct. 7-10 March 6-9 The confectionery industry helps to create digital hub, www.powerofsweet.com. This National Association Natural Products Expo West of Convenience Stores Anaheim, California more than 600,000 American jobs, accord - online resource provides more information Las Vegas, Nevada www.expowest.com ing to a new report from the National Con - about the industry’s impact at the national, www.convenience.org fectioners Association. state and community levels, including an March 17-19 Manufacturers of chocolate, candy, gum interactive map that provides a deep dive March 2-5 Seafood Expo North America and mints directly employ nearly 54,000 into the data behind the economic impact. International Housewares Show Boston, Massachusetts Chicago, Illinois www.seafoodexpo.com people across the United States, with more John Dunham & Associates, an eco - www.housewares.org than 550,000 jobs supported in related in - nomic research firm based in New York, April 11-14 dustries, including agriculture, retail, New York, conducted the research for the March 5-7 Specialty Coffee Association transportation and more. For every job cre - report. International Pizza Expo of American Las Vegas, Nevada Boston, Massachusetts ated in confectionery manufacturing, an - “American economic output and job cre - www.pizzaexpo.com www.sca.coffee other 10 are supported in related ation are an important contribution of the industries, creating a 1:10 multiplier effect, American confectionery industry,” John the association said. Dunham, Managing Partner of John Dun - “The candy industry is a bright spot in the ham & Associates, said. “Chocolate and Godiva G Cubes Collection U.S. economy, fueling the American econ - candy companies provide for $35 billion in Offers 10 New Flavors omy to the effect of more than $44 billion,” retail sales, $13.3 billion in total taxes paid John Downs, President and Chief Executive and $1.8 billion in manufacturing exports. Godiva Chocolatier announced the launch with pumpkin spice ganache. Officer of the National Confectioners Asso - Additionally, the fact that there are 10 jobs of Godiva G Cubes collection -- a reimag - The G Cubes collection embodies the ciation, said. “The industry spans the entire in retail, supplier and ancillary industries ined take on the brand’s signature individ - brand heritage while also adding innova - country – with nearly 1,300 manufacturing supported by each confectionery manufac - ually-wrapped chocolate truffles. The tion with new flavors and cube-shaped, in - facilities in all 50 states. American workers turing employee cannot be ignored – these Godiva G Cubes collection features a dis - dividually-wrapped chocolate pieces. are creating American products in American companies are creating jobs in hundreds of play of Godiva’s chocolate history, featur - The Godiva G Cubes Collection is now towns and cities. We’re providing good-pay - different industries.” ing new flavors, colorful packaging and available in U.S. stores in boxes of 10 that ing jobs in the communities where our Beyond economic impact, America’s striking cube-shaped chocolates, creating retail for $4.95 and 22 pieces, retailing for members work and live. That’s what we call leading chocolate and candy companies a modern indulgent treat for chocolate $11.95. In addition, the milk chocolate the power of sweet.” are committed to community engagement, lovers on the go. Inspired by the contrast matcha flavor is exclusively available in This report came as leaders of top confec - responsible marketing and assisting con - between the soft, sensual qualities of pre - bulk to retail at $45 per pound. tionery companies were in Washington for sumers in managing sugar consumption. mium chocolate and the angular precision Godiva Chocolatier was founded in NCA’s 2018 Washington Forum, an annual Confectioners have been manufacturing of a cube, Godiva chefs created 10 tanta - 1926 by Belgian Chocolatier Pierre Draps, fly-in program that connects industry lead - some of the world’s iconic brands for lizing flavors boasting ganache fillings who used only the finest ingredients to cre - ership to members of Congress, government decades. that push the boundaries of contemporary ate his chocolates. Almost a century later, officials and other stakeholders. Confec - The National Confectioners Association chocolate artistry. the craftsmanship and exceptional ingre - tionery executives spent time on Capitol Hill advances, protects and promotes chocolate, The collection includes a diverse com - dients are still in every piece of Godiva advocating for the industry, sharing this new candy, gum and mints, and the companies bination of new and signature flavors for chocolate. economic impact data, and telling personal that make these special treats. As the lead - every palate, including white chocolate Godiva supports sustainable practices stories of engagement with the communities ing association for the U.S. confectionery coffee, milk chocolate and coffee ganache and programs on a worldwide basis. The in which they live and work. industry, NCA helps the public understand encased in a white chocolate shell; milk company invests in programs and prac - In conjunction with the report, NCA has the unique role that chocolate and candy chocolate matcha, matcha ganache en - tices that lead to lasting positive outcomes updated its dedicated economic impact can play in a balanced lifestyle. n cased in a milk chocolate shell; milk for consumers, partners and communities. chocolate hazelnut, hazelnut and milk Godiva is a participating member of the Nutri-Grain Surveys Parents chocolate ganache encased in a milk World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), a lead - chocolate shell; milk chocolate salted ing nonprofit organization that promotes About Morning Routines caramel ganache, milk chocolate caramel sustainability in the cocoa sector by pro - ganache encased in a milk chocolate shell; viding cocoa farmers with the support they Nutri-Grain, the breakfast bar, surveyed In an average school week, kids spill on milk chocolate ganache, encased in a milk need to grow more quality cocoa and more than 2,000 moms and dads about their clothes twice while getting ready for chocolate shell; dark chocolate encased in strengthen their communities. 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