ICA Portfolio Companies in the News!
Several ICA Portfolio Companies have been getting quite a bit of press recently including: Blue Bottle Coffee Company, Outsource Consulting, Bttr Ventures and Cook! and more…
Blue Bottle Coffee Company
Blue Bottle Coffee Company is growing! In March of 2010 they opened up their doors in Williamsburg, Brooklyn New York. Congratulations!
Outsource Consulting
Sandra Floyd, President and CEO of Outsource Consulting was named San Francisco’s Small Business Administration Person of the Year. Outsource has also made DiversityBusiness.com’s National Top 10 List!
Bttr Ventures
On Earth Day Peet’s Coffee launched Bttr Ventures Gourmet Mushroom kit in 130 of their stores.
Featured on NBC evening news for Earth Day
BTTR Ventures Wins Wal-Mart Regional Competition
Cook!
Excellent Packaging and Supply
EPS is investing in our future by rebranding as BioMass Packaging® and developing an e-commerce website targeting small businesses nationally that should be up and running by the summer. We hired an outside design firm to develop that site and to redesign our company website. We will be adding a large educational component to it as well as providing greater in-depth descriptions of the individual products in our BioMass Packaging® line. We are learning more about social media and investigating how we can leverage it to drive inbound marketing and increase sales. We have also reviewed our banking relationships to insure that we are working with only strong, stable, local banks. Joe Heaney, one of our advisors, has been very helpful in this area.
Premier Organics
ORGANIC FOOD COMPANY MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE
Creating unique and delicious new products, in a peanut and gluten free facility
Oakland CA – April 7, 2010 Premier Organics, manufacturers of Artisana organic nut butters, introduces new convenient squeeze packs in all nine original flavors and one new flavor (Cashini), a truly raw cacao butter and Sattva – a lightly roasted nut butter line. Artisana began making their nut butters in 2002 and are the only leading manufacturer of nut butters that have a peanut free and gluten free facility, making a big difference for those who suffer from food allergies. Approximately 1% of the US population has a peanut allergy.
Xantrion
1. Check out our new website! www.xantrion.com
2. We continue to grow!
a. We made the 2010 Inner City 100
b. We were named the 17th fastest growing private company in the East Bay by the SF Business Times
D-Unique Tools
In January 2010 D-Unique Tools launched an e-mail campaign promoting The Universal Square. To the company’s surprise, an e-mail response to the campaign came from Afghanistan. Keith R. Myers, a construction teacher and carpenter currently building U.S. Military bases and teaching in Afghanistan, wrote that he plans to use The Universal Square and it’s accompanying video in his overseas trainings. It is another exciting step forward for D-Unique Tools to expand product knowledge of The Universal Square not only in the U.S., but in the international market as well.
