November 2012 Adam Borden, Managing
Director of Bradmer Foods, presents several alternative natural
sweeteners gaining popularity in the marketplace. Appearing on
WYPR’s
Radio Kitchen with Al Spoler and Jerry Pellegrino, Adam
discusses the many new discoveries he made at the 2012 Summer
Fancy
Food Show and the
Natural Product Expo. Among
those discoveries were honeys specially designed to accompany
cheese, tea or grilled foods from
Savannah Bee,
Tonewood
Maple’s Maple
Flakes,
Villa de Patos’ Maguey Sweet Sap,
Coconut Palm Nectar from
Big Tree Farms and
Cumberland’s Stevia in the
Raw.
May 2012 Adam Borden, Managing
Director of Bradmer Foods, discusses new desserts that appeal to a
more sophisticated adult palate. Appearing on WYPR’s
Radio Kitchen with Al Spoler
and Jerry Pellegrino, Adam samples unique creations from three
companies: Single Malt Whisky Gelato Bars by
Gelateria Naia, Riesling Poached Pear Sorbet from
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Sel Gris
Caramel Sauce from
CC Made.
March 2012 Adam Borden
moderated a panel discussion titled “The Ingredients for an
Investor-Worthy Food Business” at the 2012
IACP Annual
Conference. Adam and his co-presenter, Lisa Donoughe of
Watershed
Communications, profiled eight emerging companies with diverse
products and sales channels and discussed some of the ingredients
for making those companies investor-worthy.
January 2012 Bradmer Foods is
pleased to announce an equity investment in
Chesapeake Bay Roasting
Company, a leading Mid-Atlantic coffee roaster based in Crofton,
MD. CBRC is Bradmer Foods’ sixth portfolio investment.
October 2011 Adam Borden, Managing
Director of Bradmer Foods, is quoted in the October 2011 issue of
Seafood Business.
Adam discusses the opportunities for investment in the Seafood
Category in the wake of natural disasters and tightening federal
regulation.
September 2011 Adam Borden
comments on the proliferation of gourmet specialty condiments on
WYPR’s
Radio Kitchen
and shares his discoveries from the 2011
Summer
Fancy Food Show with hosts Al Spoler and Chef Jerry Pellegrino.
They compare many new products such as
Sir Kensington’s
and
Dulcet Cuisine’s new twists on American style ketchup and
mustard; Kentucky-made Bluegrass soy sauce by
Bourbon Barrel Foods; and a variety of pickled fruits and
vegetables from
McClure’s
and
Boat
Street.
August 2011
Adam Borden, Bradmer Foods Managing Director was invited by
FundingPost Chicago
to participate in a seminar titled "Growing your Consumer Products
Business: Protecting and Selling your Product, and Positioning it
for a Capital Raise. Among the other panelists discussing investing
in consumer products were Tom Montgomery, Managing Director of
Hydra
Ventures and Mathew Ingle, Founding Member of
Best Buy Capital.
April 2011 Adam Borden returns
to
Radio Kitchen,
a production of Baltimore’s NPR affiliate
WYPR. In this
segment Adam and hosts Al Spoler and Chef Jerry Pellegrino consider
the rising popularity of
Japanese Citrus
such as yuzu, sudachi and kabosu. During the second half of the show
they discuss
Macarons,
the French cookie sandwiches that are a tradition in Parisian bakery
cases and have recently been reintroduced by modern chefs using more
unusual flavor combinations including maple-bacon, coconut-curry and
lemon-basil.
November 2010 Adam Borden,
Managing Director of Bradmer Foods, appears on a two-part segment of WYPR’s
Radio Kitchen with hosts Al Spoler and Jerry Pellegrino to
discuss the wide variety of artisanal salts becoming popular in the
marketplace. Among the different varieties of salt they discuss are
Kala Namak, an Indian black salt; wine-soaked
Fumée de Sel; and flavor-infused products such as
Almond Cardamom salt.
Part 1
Part 2
September 2010 Bradmer Foods is
pleased to announce a follow-on investment in its portfolio company
Blue Horizon Wild,
and the appointment of Michael Rice as its’ new CEO. Michael Rice
has worked extensively with numerous consumer brands, most recently
as founder and CEO of the
Sterling-Rice Group.
August 2010 Adam Borden is
interviewed by Tamara Keith, a business reporter from
NPR’s Morning Edition,
about how artisan food businesses can grow successfully. The subject
of Tamara’s piece is
Pitango Gelato,
a Maryland-based premium artisan gelato maker in which Bradmer Foods
had been contemplating an investment.
August 2010 Adam Borden is quoted in
Slate.com weighing the business prospects of skyr, a Scandinavian
thick strained, high-protein yogurt. The article chronicles the
challenges facing Siggi's as a case study on food entrepreneurship.
May 2010 Adam Borden returns to
Radio Kitchen, a production of WYPR,
the Baltimore NPR affiliate, with hosts Al Spoler and Chef Jerry
Pellegrino to talk about emerging flower/flour products
Sence Rose Nectar,
Ooba
Sparkling Hibiscus Soda and
Riceworks
Seasalt Tortilla Chips.
