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Mentors can help guide toward clearer business & career decisions

As business and career decisions become more complex with overlapping regulations, requirements and challenges, seek wisdom and guidance from several mentors. Author Minda Zetlin illustrates in this Inc Magazine article Why the Smartest Entrepreneurs Have Multiple Mentors. Her recommendations include: 1. Find a mentor for each area of expertise you...
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Superfood chocolate introduced by Seattle Chocolate Co

New bar by Seattle Chocolate features CoffeeFlour, which converts coffee fruit pulp into a nutrient-rich ingredient. The inclusion of CoffeeFlour enhances the new jcoco chocolate bar with a berry-forward flavor balanced with jcoco’s signature dark chocolate, and marks another delicious first for the company as the only chocolate confectioner in...
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Apply for an Allured Fund grant. Build your job skills.

Improve your knowledge of food science and confectionery manufacturing through attending practical training or an educational conference this year. The Allured Fund for Confectionery Education provides need-based financial help for industry members who wish to expand their food-science knowledge or confectionery skills through approved continuing education programs. Due dates are...
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Jelly Belly introduces organic line

Jelly Belly is debuting a line of new organic jelly beans and fruit snacks that currently sell in bulk but will be available in packaged form later this season. The new products, which will be manufactured in the company’s North Chicago plant, feature reformulated, non-GMO ingredients, including the replacement of...
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What’s the difference between efficient and effective?

Making your list and checking it twice? How do you determine the order of checking things off that list? In order of list or in priority measured against a greater goal? Check out Jeff Haden’s recommendations in this Inc.com article on 9 essential habits of remarkably effective people....
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