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Perry’s Ice Cream Celebrates Holiday With 2 Festive Flavors

Published October 21, 2024

Perry’s Ice Cream Company, Inc., renowned for its high-quality, small-batch ice cream, is excited to introduce two new festive flavors just in time for the holiday season.

Iced Gingerbread (1.5 quarts): This delightful flavor combines gingerbread and royal icing ice cream with sugar cookie dough pieces. The blend of sweet icing and warm gingerbread spices evokes cozy winter vibes, making it a must-try during the holidays.
Sugar Cookie Bars (2.5 oz. each, 6 to a box): Sugar cookies are most popular during the holiday season. These tree-shaped holiday treats feature classic sugar cookie ice cream swirled with green frosting. The sweet, comforting flavor is perfect for those who love the nostalgic taste of homemade sugar cookies.

These new offerings join Perry’s iconic holiday classics, Peppermint Stick and White Christmas ice cream, expanding the festive flavor lineup to four varieties—ensuring your holiday treats are devoured faster than the fruit cake!!

Holiday flavors will be available at various retailers across New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, including Dash’s Market, Shurfine, Tops Markets, and Wegmans Food MarketsAdditionally, Perry’s limited-edition seasonal flavors can be ordered online for shipping across the Continental United States.

Pricing:

Iced Gingerbread: $6.99 for 1.5 quarts
Sugar Cookie Bars: $6.99 for a 6-pack

To learn more about Perry’s Ice Cream or to shop online, visit PerrysIceCream.com.

Perry’s Ice Cream is a beloved Great Lakes regional brand and Upstate New York’s #1 ice cream choice. With over 100 years of experience, the fourth-generation, family-owned business crafts its ice cream using fresh, local, high-quality milk and cream, slow-cooking it for an exceptionally creamy texture and taste.

Perry’s is the 23rd largest ice cream brand in the U.S., with products available in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The company employs a three-pillar strategy focusing on traditional manufacturing, an extensive distribution system covering over 100,000 square miles, and a global contract manufacturing segment serving over 35 countries.

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Velvet Taco Tackles Tailgaters With Taco Sets

Published October 21, 2024

Score a touchdown with your readers by sharing Velvet Taco’s newest creation: Taco Touchdown Packs, built for football weekends. Velvet Taco — the fan-favorite brand known for its globally inspired, scratch made tacos across nearly 50+ stateside locations — is here to help your readers elevate their game day experience with the launch of its new tailgate-inspired taco sets.

Each Taco Touchdown Pack is designed with tailgate-inspired flavors and the fitting amount of tacos for a touchdown celebration—6 tacos for 6 points, and your readers can even throw in margarita pitchers (made for 6 people) for the full party vibe!

From Oct. 25 to Nov. 30, guests can catch these exclusive online-only packs, available every Friday through Sunday, ideal for pick-up or delivery to fuel their weekend football festivities:

6 Buffalo Chicken Tacos for $20 – Just like wings but in taco form! Perfect for that game day kick, made with crisp chicken tenders, house buffalo sauce, carrots, bleu cheese and ranch crema.
6 Kobe SmashBurger Tacos for $25 – Juicy burger-inspired tacos that take the classic tailgate staple up a notch. Filled with peppered bacon, cheese blend, lettuce, red onion, tomato, house brined pickles and velvet sauce, this taco has all the makings for a perfect smash burger – all in a hand held taco.
Small Group Margaritas (frozen or rocks) for $30 – Because nothing pairs better with tacos and touchdowns!

Velvet Taco’s new Taco Touchdown Packs are perfect for football fans and tailgate lovers alike. The convenience of online ordering for pick-up or delivery makes it easy for anyone to enjoy without the hassle of cooking, while adding the small group margaritas will take any football gathering to the next level…

Velvet Taco reimagines global flavors to create a menu full of inventive, scratch-made tacos, taking guests on a sensory world tour. The trailblazing fast-casual restaurant offers 20 imaginative taco recipes, unforgettable sidekicks, such as its signature Red Curry Coconut Queso and classic Elote, along with its namesake Red Velvet Cake and the fan-favorite Kick-Ass Margarita. To keep things interesting, the brand offers a Weekly Taco Feature (better known as the WTF), rolling out a new taco creation each week. Velvet Taco introduced its unique, globally inspired taco offerings to Dallas in 2011.

Since then, the brand has consistently shattered taco-making boundaries with its handcrafted creations, establishing nearly 50 locations across the United States with plans to expand internationally, beginning in London in 2025. Velvet Taco has received dozens of local and national accolades; it was notably awarded Nation’s Restaurant News’ 2016 “Hot Concept” designation and 2020’s MenuMasters Award in the Best Limited-Time Offer category for its Weekly Taco. For more information, including a complete menu, visit velvettaco.com and follow the brand on Facebook and Instagram @VelvetTaco.

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Cal-Maine to Expand Cage-Free Production Capabilities

Published October 7, 2024

On Oct. 4, Cal-Maine Foods’ board of directors approved $40 million in new capital projects to further expand the company’s cage-free production capabilities. The company plans to fund the projects through a combination of available cash on hand, sales of investment securities and operating cash flow.

The projects will include the addition of five cage-free layer houses across the company’s locations in Florida, Georgia, Utah and Texas. The company plans to start construction by the end of calendar 2024 and expects the projects to be completed with additional production capacity for approximately 1.0 million cage-free layer hens by late summer 2025. These additions will primarily replace recently retired caged facilities and add to the Company’s cage-free capacity.

The company also provided an update on its conversion of the former Tyson Foods facilities in Dexter, Mo., acquired on March 14. Following the closing, the company began work to remodel and repurpose these assets for use in shell egg production. Cal-Maine Foods has also been working with local contract growers and has commitments that would result in approximately 1.2 million additional free-range hens by fall 2025, with plans to add more capacity in the future.

Sherman Miller, president and chief executive officer of Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., said, “We are pleased to announce these new expansion projects, which support our strategy to increase our free-range production in line with customer demand and expanding state requirements for cage-free eggs. The additional capacity will further enhance our ability to serve our growing customer base. We have made considerable progress with the conversion of the Dexter facilities and look forward to the additional production and distribution capabilities from this location. We greatly appreciate the support we have received from the existing network of local contract growers. As we continue to expand our operations, we remain committed to being the most efficient and sustainable producer of fresh shell eggs and egg products, and we will look for additional opportunities to further advance our growth strategy.”

Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. is primarily engaged in the production, grading, packaging, marketing and distribution of fresh shell eggs, including conventional, cage-free, organic, brown, free-range, pasture-raised and nutritionally enhanced eggs. The Company, which is headquartered in Ridgeland, Miss., is the largest producer and distributor of fresh shell eggs in the nation and sells most of its shell eggs throughout the majority of the United States.

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