Edible Gifts Product News Brief NB

McCutcheon’s Offers Fine Fruit Products with Private Labeling Available

As a family owned and operated business, McCutcheon’s has been making fine fruit products in Historic Frederick, Md., since 1938. By the mid 1970s McCutcheon’s was supplying farmers markets, roadside stands, and country stores from Maine to Florida. Today, McCutcheon’s products are sold across the country. The reasonable cost, delicious taste, and homemade look make McCutcheon’s a perfect fit for your growing business. McCutcheon’s also offers private labeling options.

(Call 301-662-3261 for details. For more information, visit www.mccutcheons.com or circle 28 on the reader service card.)

“Once people touch it, taste it, feel it, smell it, they’re sold,” Hunter said.

Hunter has found social media to be a valuable tool sales tool. For instance, Hunter’s daughter posted a video of herself making the pecan pie in a jar on Instagram. She demonstrated the steps needed to make it, and how it turned out. This was a very successful promotion, Hunter said.

In Cumberland, R.I., Pine Swamp Place Owner Arlene Laboissonniere has been in the business for 25 years. Twenty-five years ago, country giftware was huge, said Laboissonniere. Then, there was a slump in popularity. It picked up again at around the time Chip and Joanna Gaines started their Magnolia brand, Laboissonniere said. This comeback introduced more of a farmhouse style for a new generation– a little cleaner looking than earlier country styles. This trend brought back home décor items, rustic and warm styles, wreathes and repurposed and distressed items. The red truck is currently a very trendy motif. It’s on everything right now, Laboissonniere said.

In Laboissonniere’s 1,400-square-foot shop, dips such as: artichoke and spinach, cranberry and walnut

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