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Camillia’s Teas. “Of the $2 billion in U.S. sales of traditional (meaning hot) tea last year, specialty teas accounted for $500 million, up from less than $250 million a decade ago,” as reported by Amy Cortese in BusinessWeek (3/1/04).
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Products displayed in green point-of-sale (POS) positions have a much better chance of catching the eye and ending up in consumers shopping trolleys, according to new research due to be presented next week.
Quite simply, they have a knack at what is, or will soon be, hot. By the very nature of their jobs, fashion designers are experts at sniffing out trends and blowing them out into something sellable. Usually it’s a dress. But the city of Milan presents a social conundrum that forward-thinking designers are stepping up to solve.
Despite its label as an international fashion capital, the city is notoriously provincial and is both adored and deplored for clinging onto its traditions and conventions. On the one hand, it makes for fabulous, just-like-mama-used-to-make-’em meals at trattorias that have been oblivious to trendy food fashions. [Read more…] about Why is it that Milan's nightlife is in the hands of tailors?
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Heineken consumers who fantasize about having their own professional beer tap will soon be served: Heineken and Groupe SEB (the domestic equipment giant whose brands include Krups, Rowenta, Moulinex and Tefal) have co-created the BeerTender, a draught beer system to be used at home.
The specially designed tap and accompanying keg was piloted in the Swiss market, and is now about to be rolled out in The Netherlands, with many other countries to follow soon.
How does it work? [Read more…] about BeerTender | The kitchen appliance for beer-lovers
Procter & Gamble is about to give Starbucks a serious run for its cup-at-a-time, gourmet coffee gold mine. Along the way, P&G (PG) hopes to change the way millions of consumers make and drink coffee.
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The UK unit of US fastfood giant McDonald’s is reportedly planning to introduce a Quorn burger, adding to its vegetarian menu offering.
The chain has signed a deal with Marlow Foods, which makes Quorn, to supply McDonald’s restaurants with Quorn burgers, reported Marketing.
A McDonald’s spokeswoman said the company has been speaking to a variety of companies about developing another vegetarian burger.
Marketing activity for the new burger is expected to focus on the low-fat, meat-free attributes of Quorn, as McDonald’s attempts to create a healthier image for itself.
The idea for the Wild Noodles restaurants was developed a couple of years ago by Eddie Matney, a local celebrity chef and full-service restaurant owner in Phoenix, who infuses his pasta with flavors, forgoing the use of cold noodles in boiling water.
“He and I hooked up about a year ago and decided to package it for a franchise rollout,” says Wild Noodles President George Krotonsky.
Only three Wild Noodles are currently open, but six more will launch this month. The first one opened about two-and-a-half years ago, and the most recent location – and the first franchise – opened in Arizona about three weeks ago. [Read more…] about Wild Noodles
Hello Pizza. “I had a vision,” says Anthony LeCorre, as quoted by Leslie Chang in The Wall Street Journal. “God came to me and said, ‘Anthony, you will make 10-yuan pizzas.” And so he did, and he looks like his fledgling, Shanghai-based, three-restaurant chain, called Hello Pizza, is shaking up China’s fast-food market in a way that the multinationals, with their premium prices and hefty advertising budgets, may not understand. Conventional wisdom had it that “the high-end market” was the place to be in China … “But many found themselves competing against each other in a market that was in fact tinier than advertised.” Anthony, who is French, made that mistake at first, too — opening and closing two restaurants where his pizzas were priced at $2.50 and $5.00. Problem was, he was up against a bunch of others selling pizzas for at same prices.
“God” appeared, Anthony says, after reading up on McDonald’s, where, of course, success was had by “cutting prices while offering consistent quality and service.” So Anthony set up a new, factory-like operation in Shanghai: [Read more…] about God came to me and said, 'Anthony, you will make 10-yuan pizzas.