| Name | Title | Contact Details |
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Beverly Gates |
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Simplot Grower Solutions | Profile |
2017 marked the proud 80th anniversary of the Kawartha Dairy Company, a 100% Canadian, 100% family owned company. For over 80 years, Kawartha Dairy has been proud to be a 100% Canadian-owned company, still operated by the same family that started it back in the beginning. Although it has grown tremendously from its early days, it remains headquartered in Bobcaygeon, Ontario, where it was founded. In 1937 Jack and Ila Crowe took a leap of faith and bought a small dairy in Bobcaygeon. Jack had learned the trade while working for Oshawa Dairy but the newly renamed Kawartha Dairy didn`t bear much resemblance to that larger big city firm. At that time it consisted of a small, simple three room building, where the cold storage area was cooled with ice cut from the lake.
The Brand Passport is a company that provides importing, distribution, and brand management services on behalf of a range of premium biscuit/snack manufacturers located in Europe/Asia.
In 1855, New Orleans own Christopher Henry Miller turned his pastry chef experience into the Miller Candy Corporation. His son-in-law, Augustus Elmer, eventually joined him. And around the turn of the century, the company’s name was changed to Elmer-Miller. In 1914, Elmer’s sons signed on to what is now known as Elmer Candy Corporation. Elmer Candy soon increased its national presence by adding a wide variety of confections and snacks—some of which are still favorites today: Heavenly Hash Eggs (1923) and Gold Brick® Eggs (1936). In the early 1960s, Roy Nelson became a partner in the enterprise. In 1963, he purchased the entire company from the Elmer family and encouraged his son Allan to join the endeavor. Elmer Chocolate, now run by the third generation of Nelsons, is the second largest heart box manufacturer in the country. Easter favorites Gold Brick®, Heavenly Hash and Pecan Eggs outsell national leaders five to one along the Gulf Coast. And the Elmer Chocolate name continues to create sweet memories for new generations of candy lovers.
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Henny Penny continues a tradition of foodservice equipment innovation that began in Eaton, Ohio, USA with the first commercial pressure fryer in 1957. With 2017 marking 60 years of innovation, we offer a wide range of high quality foodservice equipment designed for easier operation, greater flexibility and lower operating costs. Our product lines include pressure and open fryers, combi ovens, rotisseries, holding cabinets and display merchandisers— all of which display our unbeatable combination of innovation, reliability and deep understanding of our customers` needs. Beyond our operationally friendly and innovative product, we continue to set ourselves apart from the field with our focus on the overall customer experience, our key distributor and operator relationships and making sure we are at the leading edge of identifying and solving the problems our customers face in the back of their house. Our customers — including thousands of restaurants, supermarkets and institutional foodservice operators the world over — would say it`s all part of what makes Henny Penny the ideal partner for providing solutions now and for the future.