Archive for June 25th, 2007
Demand Spreads For Mom's Almond Butter
Sacbee.com: Jennifer Barney’s almond spread hit shelves in Fresno’s Whole Foods Market, Catalano’s Market and Sam’s Italian Deli & Market just about a year ago. Already, she’s expanded the geographic footprint for her Barney Butter to 15 chain stores in 50 markets. It’s sold in Draeger’s Markets in the Bay Area, Harvest Ranch stores in [...]
Making The Birth Less Of A Pain
Seattlepi.com: Like a lot of expectant parents, Kristina Peterson and Ian McAllister left nothing to chance. Their to-do list could have sent them scurrying all over town. Instead, they enjoyed one-stop shopping at Gracewinds Perinatal Services, whose personal, homey approach has earned a heap of awards for founder and CEO Christine Wallace. “I was finding [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: Anyone who works long hours knows that eating can be all about convenience, not nutrition. My own diet used to consist of takeout, caffeine, and nonstop sugar, which meant I was always veering from jittery highs to foot-dragging lows. So I recently met with a nutritionist, who suggested Figamajigs as an antidote [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: I used to jog the same route during my lunch break, which was predictable but terribly boring. On a shopping trip last year, I found the Nike iPod Sport Kit, which contains a wireless sensor, a receiver, and software that together track distances, times, pace, and calories burned. Unlike a standard pedometer, [...]
Niche Drinks Gain In U.S. Market
Reuters: Nine years ago, Seth Goldman walked into a Whole Foods Market Inc. store with an empty bottle bearing a mocked-up label and five thermoses of iced tea he brewed in his kitchen. He walked out with a purchase order for 15,000 bottles, the first step of a journey that has transformed him from the [...]
Brookstone: Six laptop tools that make every business trip more productive. Now you can set up an office in a hotel room, on a plane, or at the corner café. All accessories simply plug into the USB or other port on your laptop for instant use. An included four-port USB hub makes it easy to [...]
Entrepreneurs Keep Ponds Sparkling
Houston Chronicle: Houston is built on flat land where ponds can become algae-covered breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Or, with the right care and some dye, they can be crystal-blue lakes with flowers, fish and eye-grabbing fountains. For developers, the difference can mean big money. Waterfront lots are more expensive — so much more expensive that [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: A recent study by International Communications Research, commissioned by Pitney Bowes, found that consumers still prefer receiving promotional information and private communications the traditional way: delivered by the mailman. When surveyed, 45.3 percent of study respondents viewed delivered mail as less intrusive than e-mail, while 40.2 percent considered it more convenient and felt [...]
ECommerce-Guide: For online merchants who need to find items to sell, identifying reputable product sources is something that requires a lot of research. Here are some that you may want to check out. OneSource is run by WorldWide Brands, and for a registration fee, you gain access to its continually updated database of wholesalers, including [...]
Invention Makes Garden Cleanup Easy
Associated Press: Grass clippings in summer and fallen leaves in the fall are just two kinds of garden detritus that have to be wrestled into yard bags en route to disposal. The Yard Bag Chute is designed to make lawn and garden cleanup easier. The Yard Bag Chute is a corrugated plastic insert-liner for paper [...]
