GeeFree, a fast-growing manufacturer of all-natural, frozen, gluten-free puff pastry products, is now catering to the food service industry with appetizers, raw pastry dough sheets, chicken pot pies, mini apple turnovers and its newly launched sandwich pockets.
Downers Grove, Ill.-based Hearthside Food Solutions will acquire Standard Functional Foods Group (SFFG), the privately-held snack bar division of Nashville, Tenn.-based Standard Candy Co., Hearthside announced Friday.
What do pizza slices, CeeLo Green and futuristic fuel pumps have in common? They were all at Chicago’s McCormick Place last week for the NACS Show, sponsored each year by what was once known as the National Association of Convenience Stores. (Now the association goes by NACS, the Association for Convenience and Fuel Retailing.)