Posts Tagged ‘Competition’

Candyholics rejoice! BestSweet, a top confectionary manufacturer, is turning to you for creative, new ideas for products to add to one of their deliciously notable candy brands.

BestSweet is now turning to our Edison Nation members to this leading ice cream brand’s next hit candy item that will appeal to the lucrative ‘tween consumer (ages 8-13).

For this Live Product Search, BestSweet wants you to think outside the box of established candy varieties, such as Junior Mints® or Milk Duds®. BestSweet is looking for your product concept ideas in sweet new flavors and in any shape or size.

Whether its minis or bite-size squares, consider the whole package concept and your buyer. What new candy would grab the hard-to-catch attention of ‘tweens?

For this Live Product Search, your product concepts must:

• Retail in stores for $2.00
• Appeal to the ‘tween consumer
• Fit within a leading ice cream manufacturer’s line of branded candy
• Be unique and patentable

Click here to learn more about the BestSweet Live Product Search

Deadline: Monday, September 21st, 2009 11:59PM – Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Editor’s Note: Everyday Edisons require a $25 submission fee.

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From Business Opportunities Weblog.

Carolina Pad, a leading supplier of fashion school, office and organizational products, is one of the fastest-growing stationery companies in the world. Its school, office, and arts and crafts products can be found at mass merchant, office supply, grocery, and drug stores, including leading nationwide retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, Kmart, Meijer, Fred Meyer, CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Office Max, Staples, Kroger, Food Lion and more..

To further its mission of providing extraordinary fashion and innovation through its everyday products, Carolina Pad is currently looking for the next top innovative school, office and organizational supplies.

Click here to learn more about this Live Product Search

Deadline: Monday, Sept 14th 2009 11:59PM – Pacific Time (US & Canada)

Editor’s Note: Everyday Edisons require a $25 submission fee.

Photo by Everyday Edisons.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

FSB Magazine:

Squeezed between Moe’s Coffee Shop and the Shop N Go minimart on hardscrabble Frankford Avenue, in the heart of working-class Northeast Philadelphia, lies the Philly Pretzel Factory. With its algae-green sign bolted to the building’s khaki stucco exterior, it looks more like a takeout joint than the headquarters of a $40 million empire. The truth is, it’s both.

At eight o’clock on a brisk Friday morning, neighborhood folks — in all shades and shapes, from two burly guys in courier uniforms to a bottle blonde impatiently jingling her keys — stand eight deep inside the Factory. The crowd is starting to spill out of the building, while customers near the counter watch like kids peering into the oven window, urging on a batch of Christmas cookies.

Once the pride of a few family bakeries in gritty South Philadelphia, soft pretzels have always been big business in the city. But over the past decade, with four pretzel companies supporting more than 160 freestanding retail stores that tempt the taste buds and test the waistlines of locals addicted to the doughy treats, the Philly area market has become saturated, and the Big Four are hoping to turn their soft pretzels from a regional obsession into a national one.

Each of the Big Four dismisses the others’ product and plans for growth, but they all believe that giant vendors like J&J Snack Foods (JJSF) — maker of the ubiquitous SuperPretzel — and Auntie Anne’s have bamboozled the pretzel-eating public into accepting inferior pretzels.

“Philadelphians know the difference between a good pretzel and a horrible pretzel,” says Vince Marinelli, a former electrician who heads A Taste of Philly, which operates 18 stand-alone pretzel stores, mainly in the Philly burbs. “Outside this area they don’t know the difference. So there’s some work to be done educating people.”

Continue Reading: “Pretzel Wars”

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From Business Opportunities Weblog.