VOLUME 95 - Jul 2013 In This Issue \* Foodie Crowd Funding \* Processing Forum - Product making issues \* Most Read Articles in June FE \* Expor

VOLUME 95 - Jul 2013

In This Issue

Funding

FoodieCrowdFunding offers a "Kickstarter" option for food entrepreneurs. Foodie Crowd Funding.com is a new funding platform completely focused on food-related businesses and products. FCF is where adventurous foodies forage for future investments. Foodie Crowd Funding is more than just a funding site. It helps build your brand while growing your business. See more on their "Beta" website. And let us know what you think of it.

Specialty Food Resource Forum - More Than 1,700 Members

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Here are some of the topics in the most clicked Specialty Food Resource Forum categories: PROCESSING FORUM -

- Looking for Organic Dried Vegetables.
- Co-packer needed for sausage in San Diego/Southern, CA.
- Looking for a Co-packer for hand packed, hot fill items.
- Need co-packer for hot fill pickle product.
- Seeking a co-packer for my herbal tea.
- Where do I purchase ingredients at wholesale price?
- Co-packer needed for mid-Atlantic fruit veggies value added.
- Co-packer needed for cookies.
- Co-packer in Georgia.

Most Read Articles in Jun FE

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Richard Hanley's product calculator for start-up food entrepreneurs. Detail here.
Six Secrets to a Successful Start-up)
Mini-case Study: Woodand Foods. Learn how they built a business on a severance check.
Co-packer Briefing

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MORE ON WHY EXPORT- !
Koelnmesse Fairgrounds
Cologne, Germany
October 5-9, 2013
See your global sales take off - Exhibit in the USA Pavilion at ANUGA!
Government organizations can help you take a bite out of the export pie. Contact the organization in the area where you work (see below) to see if you are eligible for some "FREE MONEY:"
Western USA
Mid-West and Northeast USA
Southern USA

Mini-Case Study

This month's mini-case study is Tonewood maple products.
Tonewood Founder Dori Ross shares their journey.

"A terrific book, very informative with great references." Tayler Kaiserman, Co-Founder / CEO Jojo’s Chocolate | "Chocolate for a cure.".

COVER NEW

MORE THAN 41,000 COPIES SOLD. Do you have a specialty food product that needs to be seen? Are you interested in getting it to the marketplace? This textbook shares the profit assuring approaches to attaining success in the marketplace.

ORDER HERE

As a service to Specialty Food Vendors and Suppliers, we offer volume (10+ copies) discounts best for co-packers, incubators, community kitchens, SBDC's, etc. Please inquire here.

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Labeling

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The seed of On The Menu started at a kitchen table over a cup of tea and homemade pastry. In the eight years since then, we’ve helped more than 200 clients across the U.S. Join the GMO Labeling discussion on our Blog.

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WHAT'S INSIDE

THIS MONTH'S LABEL NEWS
• FDA responds on adding caffeine to foods and beverages
• State activity toward mandatory GMO labeling
• Implementing EU health claims
• "Local" Food Definition Changed in Canada
• Ingredient labeling for dried and pureed items
• Labeling requirements for vegan, raw, and never heated

Specialty Food Industry Poll

Poll Topics:
1. Broker Commissions
2. Online Sales
3. UPC Codes
4. Impact of Wall Street "Meltdown"
5. Recession Proof?
6. Business Software
7. Life Before Specialty Food Marketing
8. Product Liability Insurance
9. Business Impact of High Gas Prices
10. How Long to be Successful?
11. Sources of Your Start Up Financing
CAST YOUR "VOTE HERE".

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Trade Rags You Should Be Reading

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Please welcome our newest Forum member - Sweet Infusion's Denise Stanton who works "where the best desserts in the world are created!"
- Join our Forum and Blog where we have welcomed more than 1,717 members from as far away as the UK, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Spain, Greece and Lithuania. - Many thanks.

THE FE TEAM

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Editor Pat Hall

 
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and Publisher Steve Hall

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