My Sol Mate is Better Than Your Sol Mate
Patent Lawyers Come on Down As reported in our Expo West coverage, NBN’s favorite product of the show was a terrific soda developed with several Canadian companies, including one of our favorite jam makers, Crofters. Sol Mate sparkling Yerba Mate is a staple of ours, at least when we can get our sweaty mate loving hands on […]
Notes From the Expo: File This New Product Under Huh?
Spun Activated Water-No Snake Oil Added We’ve seen plenty of products that leave us wondering why people do the things they do (manufacturers and consumers both) and this new water leaves us speechless. So instead of our normal witty and insightful commentary we’ll just quote from the bottle. “Our propietary process of altering and activating […]
Pass the chicken nuggets please! And hold the hormones and antibiotics
Free Bird Chickens Hit the Shelves As regular readers know NBN eats the occasional Oreo, buys a late night Kit Kat now and then after a night on the town (translation: we’ve had too much to drink) and yes, though we don’t indulge very often, loves Fresca too. Yet NBN has NEVER EVER eaten a […]
Stacy and Izze Meet Colonel Sanders and Taco Bell
Two Big Moves of Last Year Which Might Not Pay Off If the folks at Izze and Stacy’s Chips, two big winners in 2006 of the “who wants to buy my company” contest have any sense of the twists of fate, they’ll thank their lucky stars for BOTH their own forward thinking efforts to get […]
So Long Red Bull Hello Cocaine
A December 16 New York Times story noted the outcry over the new energy drink called Cocaine. Its website is at drinkcocaine.com. Meanwhile at the same time anyone who isn’t blind has been bombarded by advertisements with that Chernobyl greenish-yellow butterfly, the iconic image for the new sleeping pill Lunestra. And over at MTV a new […]
May Your Yule Log Burn Bright with Coffee?
WWSD? What Would Santa Do? NBN loves coffee and lately our passion for java has turned to flames. We’re burning up the eco-friendly Java Log in the fireplace at our home office. Check out www. Java-log.com for more information on this fuel-efficient green product that the manufacturer claims and we believe, burns better than Duraflame […]
Anyone Want to Buy A Bridge–And How About Wal-Mart Going Green
Supermarket News reported yesterday that Wal-Mart is incorporating experimental green design elements in a new superstore that it is building in McKinney, Texas. While the company failed to provide further Supermarket New with further details, the story reports that Wal-Mart states that it “will incorporate experiments from 21 companies involving new equipment and technology on […]
No Surprise As Odak Leaves Wild Oats
New Move Conistent with Burkle Consolidation Wild Oats CEO Perry Odak, whose current contract expires March 19, 2007 will not have his contract renewed, the company stated in a regulatory filing this week. Despite statements to the contrary in a July conference call NBN sees this move as a clear indication that things are changing […]
Strangest Promotion in Baltimore
Foods Market in town to promote it. The title of the book:HOW DOG FOOD SAVED THE EARTH. Despite our cynicism and annoyance with the smugness of the title a quick look at Amazon.com showed favorable comments, most noting the book’s chronicle of how like-minded people can come together and make a difference that few thought […]
Hershey Expands Its Reach, Acuqires Dagoba
We love Dagoba founder Frederick Schilling and his chocolates are NBN’s favorites. So news that Hershey has added his terrific line to its stable mad us glad for Schilling but worried a bit about quality. Hershey bought Joseph Schmidt and another of our favorites, Scharffen Berger earlier this year. In a press release Schilling lauded […]
