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To: richardred who wrote (275)12/3/2012 6:23:34 PM
From: Glenn Petersen1 Recommendation  Respond to of 338
 
About six or seven years ago I was talking to a group that wanted to form a SPAC fo the purpose of acquiring one of more companies in the frozen dessert space. Yocream was at the top of their list. They eventually made low ball offer (which they could not have financed) for Yocream, which was rejected. If I recall correctly, they offered about $6 per share.

For some reason, the Chobani story has been largely ignored by the press.

Chobani founder honored at entrepreneur awards

by Traci DeLore
Mohawk Valley Business Journal
11/19/2012 1:20:00 PM
NORWICH — Chobani, Inc. founder Hamdi Ulukaya is the Ernst & Young National Entrepreneur Of The Year for 2012.

The award encourages entrepreneurial activity and recognizes leaders and visionaries who demonstrate innovation, financial success, and personal commitment as they create and build businesses, according to Ernst & Young.

Ulukaya received his award at the Entrepreneur Of The Year gala in Palm Springs, Calif., where awards were also presented in 10 additional categories. A panel of judges selected the winners from 244 regional award recipients. Ulukaya also took top honors in the retail and consumer products category.

“Entrepreneurs continue to be a driving force in leading the economic recovery,” Bryan Pearce, Americas director for the awards, said in a release. “Their ability to see around corners and find new, better ways of doing things makes them an engine of growth. Ulukaya’s ability to not only see an opportunity in the market, but to reinvigorate and innovate an entire product category is inspiring.”

Ulukaya began his yogurt business in 2005 when he purchased a former Kraft yogurt plant in New Berlin. In 2007, he launched the Chobani brand with five former Kraft employees on board.

Today, Chobani is close to reaching $1 billion in sales, Ulukaya said during his award acceptance speech, and employs about 2,000 people in New York.

Since launching Chobani, the company has expanded to include Chobani Champions, a line of Greek yogurt for kids, and is building a new 900,000-square-foot plant in Idaho which will employ about 400 people to start. The company acquired Bead Foods in Australia in 2011, expanding the company’s reach overseas, and is planning to move into Canada as well.

Founded and produced by accounting firm Ernst & Young, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored by SAP America and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Contact DeLore at tdelore@tgbbj.com

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To: richardred who wrote (275)1/29/2014 4:07:16 PM
From: Glenn Petersen  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 338
 
The Greek Yogurt Ad Wars Get Bitey

By Bryan Gruley
January 29, 2014



Photograph by Eric Risberg/AP Photo

The other battle in Super Bowl XLVIII—a pricey war of Greek yogurts—pits a graying John Stamos against a 1,400-pound Kodiak named Whopper. Vegas has yet to set odds.

Yogurt upstart Chobani yesterday posted its 60-second Super Bowl commercial on YouTube ( GOOG), showing a snuffling bear terrifying customers at a small-town country store called Howard’s. The bear eventually absconds with a cup of honey Chobani in his maw while police scurry about and Bob Dylan croons I Want You in the background. A voice-over by Mandy Patinkin intones, “It’s hard these days to find food made with only real, natural ingredients.”



Chobani wouldn’t disclose how much it’s spending on the spot, but ads for this year’s Super Bowl are reportedly going for about $4 million per 30 seconds.

The ad ratchets up the competition between Chobani and Danone’s ( BN:FP) Dannon Oikos brand, two of the country’s best-selling Greek yogurts. Danone earlier unveiled its Oikos “bromance” campaign featuring Greek-American TV star Stamos with his former Full House co-stars Bob Saget and Dave Coulier.



Annual revenue at privately held Chobani, led by Turkish entrepreneur Hamdi Ulukaya, has shot to more than $1 billion since the company began offering products in 2007. Last year French food giant Danone struck back with a marketing blitz that included free samples and a Super Bowl ad.

Chobani will spend more on marketing and advertising in the first half of 2014 than in any year before, said Peter McGuinness, the company’s chief marketing and brand officer. The bear invasion ad, with the tagline #howmatters, is part of a campaign designed to focus consumers on how food is made (the Super Bowl), how you train (the Winter Olympics), and similar themes. “We’ve been a manufacturing company, now we’re transitioning to being a marketing company,” he said.

Chobani’s ad came from Droga5, a unit of William Morris Endeavor, and was filmed in western Canada.

businessweek.com



To: richardred who wrote (275)1/20/2018 6:23:28 PM
From: richardred  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 338
 
I've been looking a lot at LWAY lately FWIW because of the low price. . Lifeway seems stalled. Maybe Dannon take some steps up with Keifer to mainstream it?


Generation NEXT Franchise Brands Announces Strategic Partnership With Leading Frozen Yogurt Producer Dannon YoCream For Reis & Irvy’s Frozen Yogurt Robots Jan 15, 2018 Source: Generation NEXT Franchise

The global leader in frozen yogurt production will supply premium frozen yogurt to the revolutionary Froyo Robots, Generation NEXT’s flagship franchise concept


San Diego, California, Jan. 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Generation NEXT Franchise Brands, Inc. (OTCB: VEND) has announced today that they have entered into a partnership agreement with global leading frozen yogurt maker Dannon YoCream™, in which Dannon will provide a premium frozen yogurt consumable to Generation NEXT’s franchise concept, Reis & Irvy’s®. The fully-automated robotic vending machines will operate in a variety of high-traffic locations across North America, serving customers seven different flavors of frozen yogurt, a selection of six custom toppings, all at the point of sale and within 60 seconds. Reis & Irvy’s plans to have approximately 500 locations operating through pre-sold franchise agreements in the first half of 2018. Generation NEXT Franchise Brands, who recently announced strategic partnerships with both global manufacturer, Flex, Ltd., and worldwide logistics leader, Pitney Bowes, now adds Dannon YoCream to the growing development team, ensuring that its revolutionary Reis & Irvy’s Froyo Robots not only deliver premium performance, but premium product as well.

Through the agreement:

    Dannon YoCream will be a primary supplier of all frozen dessert available within the Reis & Irvy’s Froyo Robots including a wide assortment of frozen yogurts, sorbets and gelatos. The current Reis & Irvy’s franchise network, which includes more than 200 operators both nationally and internationally, will have access to Dannon Cream’s extensive distribution channels. Dannon YoCream frozen yogurts are carefully crafted with real yogurt to contain live and active yogurt cultures, allowing for a higher quality finished product, and bearing the Live and Active Culture Seal from the National Yogurt Association. All Dannon YoCream products are OU-D Kosher certified – the word’s most recognized and most trusted Kosher symbol.
“Dannon has decades of experience, premium quality and an assortment of consumables that allow us to offer a diverse range of products to our Reis & Irvy’s customers,” said Nick Yates, Chairman of Generation Next Franchise Brands. “For over 40 years Dannon has been at the forefront of innovation and on-trend flavor profiles crafted to create memorable customer experiences which is exactly what our robots plan on achieving. We are thrilled to partner with Dannon.”

Dannon YoCream is equally thrilled to be part of the next revolution of the frozen yogurt industry; frozen yogurt from a vending robot.

“Our goal in frozen yogurt is to create a better-for-you indulgence alternative, as part of our mission to bring health through food to as many people as possible,” said Nicolas De Valencia, Senior National Sales Director, Dannon & YoCream Frozen Yogurt, a part of DanoneWave. “With this collaboration, we are excited to spur continued growth and development of the frozen yogurt market by making froyo even more available and engaging.”


For more information on the revolutionary Froyo Robots or to learn more about how you can own your own Reis & Irvy’s Froyo Robot franchise, visit the Reis & Irvy’s website at www.reisandirvys.com. To learn more about Generation NEXT Franchise Brands or their family of brands, including Reis & Irvy’s, please visit www.gennextbrands.com or call toll free 888-902-7558.

This information is not intended as an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, a franchise. It is for information purposes only. No Reis & Irvy's franchises will be sold to any resident of any state until the offering has been exempted from the requirements of, or duly registered in and declared effective by, such state and the required FDD (if any) has been delivered to the prospective franchisee before the sale in compliance with applicable law. Currently, the following states in the United States regulate the offer and sale of franchises: California, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. If you reside in one of these states, or even if you reside elsewhere, you may have certain rights under applicable franchise laws or regulations.

About Generation NEXT Franchise Brands, Inc.

Generation NEXT Franchise Brands, Inc., based in San Diego, California, is a publicly traded company on the OTC Markets trading under the symbol: VEND. Generation NEXT Franchise Brands is parent company to Fresh Healthy Vending LLC, the market’s leading healthy-choice vending machine franchise, Reis and Irvy's, Inc., the world’s first robotic frozen yogurt vending kiosk, 19 Degrees, a corporate-focused frozen yogurt robot brand and Generation NEXT Vending Robots, our newly established owner/operator model. The Company has sold over 600 franchises throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the Bahamas, and continually looks to partner with like-minded entrepreneurs who share its vision.

About Reis & Irvy’s, Inc.

Reis & Irvy’s, Inc., is a subsidiary franchise concept of Generation NEXT Franchise Brands, Inc. (OTCB: VEND). Launched in early 2016, the revolutionary Reis & Irvy’s Froyo Robot vending machine serves seven different flavors of frozen yogurt, ice cream, sorbets and gelato’s, a choice of up to six custom toppings and to customers within 60 seconds or less at the point of sale. The unique franchise opportunity has since established itself as a high-demand product and currently showcases a franchise network both domestically as well as internationally.

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