2018 May Board Book

Sampling activities for Karoun Dairies products has been moved to a later date, with the agreement that it will commence as soon as said products are already available in their outlets.

• Hightower Inc. is grateful for the sampling support at Landers, saying it helped increase sales of Coolhaus. Sampling is on-going in the three branches of Landers. They plan to order more Coolhaus as their stocks are already low. They are still negotiating with Rustan’s Supermarket for the possibility of being a supplier of California Cheeses. • Santini/Bonjourlait Corp. said the sampling of California Cheeses greatly increased sales in supermarkets. They are requesting for sampling support in other supermarkets to help push sales. • Jedco is still waiting for the release of the CPR from the FDA for Joseph Farm Cheese. They submitted all the requirements in November 2017. Once the products are in, they would request for sampling activities in supermarkets in Visayas and Mindanao. • Primeline reported that the promo of Shakey’s Pizza is still on-going. They are using Hillmar Cheddar Cheese on all their pizza flavors. Giant Shakey’s billboards are up all over Metro Manila promoting their new pizza offerings; the billboards include the RCM Seal. Chefs Food is receiving Sierra Nevada samples through HarbyrCo Chefs Food received Sierra Nevada’s organic cheese samples and is testing in- company. Chefs Food, with around 600 restaurants customers nationwide, arranged in-house seminars inviting owner chefs and sous chefs of customers. As examining the estimates from HarbyrCo, Chefs Food is considering contacting to Sierra Nevada directly, not through HarbyrCo. Bumho was looking for fresh mozzarella in U.S. and was in contact with Angelo & Franco recently. They received samples in the week of March 12 th and tested in-house. Reverse Trade Mission to IDDBA We confirmed the attendees for the IDDBA which include importers and buyers of retail supermarket chains, distributors, and processors. Ellise imported California cream cheese from Pacific Cheese steadily for over a year and distributed to bakery brands and facilities. Dongwon F&B is one of largest cheese importer/distributor and providing Leprino shredding cheese to E Mart in-store pizza shop-in-shop. Gourmet F&B, a partnering company for cheese event in April, is aggressively looking for new brands/products in U.S. Gourmet F&B is • Bumho Trading is receiving fresh mozzarella from Angelo & Franco • South Korea •