It’s the October "Fuel for School" Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Festival!
A one-page ad in the Valassis FSI dropped on October 2, 2005 and the $12,500 consumer sweepstakes accessible on the Bring Us To Your Table! website is underway. Take advantage of this national announcement by promoting frozen and refrigerated foods this month and competing for the Crystal Apple Award. Point of sale materials are still available. Click here for contest rules, POS and all the details of the promotion.

Last Chance to Register for the Premier Business Meeting in the Industry
There is still time to register for the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Convention October 8-12, 2005, at the Hilton San Francisco, California. Nearly 1100 delegates have registered including over 140 retailers. Maximize your productivity by meeting with the largest number of frozen and refrigerated industry contacts in one location. Click here for a registration form.

Mark Your Calendar for the Retail Executive Conference
The 14th Annual Retail Executive Conference will be held April 24-26, 2005 at the Tempe Mission Palms in Tempe, AZ. The Conference is designed for sales and marketing executives from all segments of the frozen and refrigerated foods industry to meet in an informal atmosphere for a mixture of learning and business. Click here for the agenda and planned speakers.

NFRA Annual Membership Directory Updates Due
Don’t forget to update your company’s membership record online for the 2006 NFRA Annual Membership Directory. You must update your listing online at www.nfraweb.org in order to have a current listing in the printed Membership Directory. Listings should be updated by October 14, 2005 to ensure your correct information is included in NFRA’s 2006 Annual Membership Directory. Click here to view your current listing online.

NFRA Welcomes Our Newest Members
Please welcome the companies listed below who have met the qualifications of membership and have joined the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association.

International

Complete Innovations Inc. (Fleet Complete)
www.completeinnovations.com

Manufacturer/Frozen

Europe’s Best
www.europesbest.com

Grace’s Kitchen
www.graceskitchen.com

Mar-Lees Seafood LLC
www.marlees.com

Tampa Maid Foods
www.tampamaid.com

Quik-To-Fix Foods
www.qtffoods.com

Manufacturer/Refrigerated

Radlo Foods, LLC
www.radlo.com

Sales Agent

Johnson O’Hare Company
www.johare.com

Supplier

Ross Labs
www.ross.com

Synergistic Marketing, Inc.
212-684-2253

Recent Certificate of Excellence Participants
The Certificate of Excellence, the highest operational award in the frozen and refrigerated foods industry, signifies that a facility conforms to the highest industry and government standards, and strictly adheres to the Code of Recommended Practices for the handling and merchandising of frozen & refrigerated foods.

Renewal

Burris Logistics
111 Reese Avenue, Harrington, DE

Burris Refrigerated Logistics
100 Railroad Avenue, Haines City, FL

Burris Refrigerated Logistics
1900 Corporate Way, Sumter, SC

Burris Refrigerated Logistics
1229 Fleetway Drive, Chesapeake, VA

Burris Refrigerated Logistics
383 Mount Torrey Road, Lyndhurst, VA

Burris Retail Logistics
3946 Federalsburg Highway, Federalsburg, MD

Henningsen Cold Storage
4124 24th Avenue, Forest Grove, OR

Interstate Cold Storage
6606 Lincoln Parkway, Ft. Wayne, IN

Interstate Cold Storage
7725 Nelson Road, Ft. Wayne, IN

K-PAC (Konoike-Pacific)
1420 Coil Avenue, Wilmington, CA

Minnesota Freezer Warehouse Co.
2626 Polar Road, Worthington, MN

Merchants Terminal Corporation
1811 Cabin Branch Drive, Landover, MD

United States Cold Storage
3300 East Park Row Drive, Arlington, TX

US Cold Storage
240 Bruce Costin Road, Warsaw, NC

US Cold Storage, Inc.
2554 Downing Drive, Fort Worth, TX

Eastern Frosted Foods Association will hold its annual Fall Dinner on Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at the Marriott Glenpointe in Teaneck, NJ featuring Guest Speaker John Catsimatidis of Red Apple Group, Inc. For more information: 973-835-1710

Bird’s Eye Foods has appointed Neil Harrison as chairman, president, and chief executive officer. He succeeds Dennis M. Mullen, who is stepping down from active management but is making himself available as a consultant to the company.

Lakeside Foods has named Sandi Hartlaub as Accountant. Hartlaub will be responsible for a variety of accounting reports, including budget and projection reports, financial reports and strategic planning reports.

General Mills Trademark Licensing and Kemps Ice Cream have announced the addition of several novelty items to their line of Pillsbury® Ice Cream Products. The three new Pillsbury ice cream novelties from Kemps include: Pillsbury Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Bar - a vanilla flavored ice cream layered between two pieces of Pillsbury Chocolate Chip cookie dough dipped in milk chocolate;, Pillsbury Brownie Bar - a vanilla flavored ice cream topped with a Pillsbury Brownie and covered in milk chocolate; and the Pillsbury Chocolate Chip Cookiewich - homemade vanilla flavored ice cream sandwiched between two Pillsbury Chocolate Chip cookies. For more information: www.kemps.com

Golbon recently announced the addition of H & R Foods L.P. of Amarillo, TX. H & R was founded in 1969 as an independent C.O.P. distributor. Today their primary focus revolves around their processing plant offerings to their independent restaurants and schools. Currently H & R services accounts within a 150-mile radius of Amarillo, including Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico.

Inland Cold Storage recently announced the groundbreaking on their newest facility on Sierra Pine Blvd. in Vernon, CA. The state-of-the-art refrigerated public warehouse will cover 160,000 square feet with a capacity of 20,000 pallet positions. It is scheduled to open in the fall of 2006 and will become the seventieth facility in the growing ICS family, bringing total capacity to more than 25 million cubic feet of refrigerated and frozen storage.

Produce for Better Health recently announced they will reprise the Wal-Mart Colorful Fruit and Vegetable Promotion. Charlie Brown and his friends are returning to Wal-Mart stores nationwide for the second year with activity books, stickers, point of sale materials and recipes designed to make learning about fruits and vegetables fun. "Treat Yourself to Good Health" is the seventh event sponsored by PBH and Wal-Mart, and the third of four events staged this year; five more are planned for 2006. For more information: www.pbhfoundation.org

Keep the industry updated about news and staff promotions at your company. NFRA will publish your company highlights monthly in the NFRA Update. Send your company news to us at info@nfraweb.org; via fax to 717- 657-9862; or via mail to NFRA, 4755 Linglestown Rd., Suite 300, Harrisburg, PA 17112.