So who are we?

Cream Of The Crop is an Atlanta, GA specialty foods and ingredients broker organization, representing the interests of specialty foods and food ingredients manufacturers, and delivering high quality specialty foods products and ingredients for retailers and foodservice groups to sell. Our team is comprised of product development, sales strategy development and implementation, and project management specialists, who also happen to be specialty and gourmet foods enthusiasts. Our background is in growing niche specialty foods opportunities into mainstream successes by executing hard-hitting revenue and scale growth plans.

And what do we do?

We introduce specialty foods and food ingredients manufacturers' products to qualified buyers: supermarkets, specialty and gift retailers, food distributors, foodservice organizations, hospitality and restaurant groups, schools, etc. to increase the quantity and quality of the business transactions they are generating. We also foster mutually beneficial relationships between specialty food ingredients suppliers and specialty foods manufacturers.

We are the specialty foods and food ingredients manufacturers' ambassador and sales agent. We expand the influence of specialty foods brands and food ingredients suppliers through direct sales contact and calculated market exposure, to make room for the specialty food products and food ingredients we represent on specialty food manufacturers' recipe ingredient rosters, retailers' shelves and foodservice menus.

We're in the business of turning specialty food ideas into thriving enterprises. In the process, we supply market sellers with the specialty foods grocery, frozen, bakery, etc. items and food ingredients their customers are eager to purchase.

But who do we help?

We serve every one in the specialty foods manufacturing - to - end user cycle. We afford specialty foods manufacturers the freedom to focus on their products' development, while we maximize efficiency in the management of their existing accounts, create incremental sales revenue opportunities for their brand and source premium cost-effective food ingredients for their products. We present specialty and gourmet food ingredients vendors with high-volume sales opportunities. We help supermarkets, specialty retailers, schools, food distributors, hospitality and foodservice organizations meet their customers' frequently evolving demands for specialty and gourmet food products and ingredients. Consumers benefit with broader access to new, high-quality specialty food products and food ingredients in the marketplace.

Trends

How to Turn Specialty Foods In to Gold
Mark Anthony, Ph.D., Technical Editor
Specialty foods is a unique but wide-ranging category with one important commonality: high margins.

Top 5 Food Trends of 2010
National Association of Specialty Food Trade
More than 2,400 domestic and international exhibitors from more than 80 countries debuted 180,000 specialty food and beverages products at the 56th Summer Fancy Food Show was held June 27-29 at the Javits Center.

Specialty Foods Challenge: Reaching Today's Consumer
Gourmet Retailer Intervew With Specialty Foods Industry Pionerr, John Roberts

The Death of High Fructose Corn Syrup
Melanie Warner
The back-to-back, double whammy announcements that PepsiCo is ditching high fructose corn syrup in Gatorade along with the results of a scathing new study from researchers at Princeton make it official — allies of the controversial sweetener have lost the war.

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