Global Food Collaborative
Members Working Together For Stronger And Better Business Across The
Supply Chain of Food, Beverage and Agri-Products
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Global Food Alaska
Conference &
Business Show
Soldotna, Alaska
June 10 -11, 2009
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Wild Frontier Pizza Served Now At Red Dog Saloon
Traditional Food Guide For Cancer Survivors Released
Are You Alaskan Enough? Take The Challenge.
Fish Notes and Calendar
Matanuska Creamery Hosts Dignitaries at Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Food Grade Pipe For Sale
Bloggers Come Out
Kenai River Seafoods To Produce Kenai Wild branded Salmon for 2008 Season
Ed's Kasilof Markets Yukon Salmon Burger
Kenai Borough School District Puts Wild Salmon Wraps On The Menu For Students
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 Greetings Collaborative INSIGHTS Readers,
You may regularly receive Collaborative INSIGHTS, but wonder who in the world is Global Food Collaborative?
GFC is private business dedicated to facilitating sustainable businesses in food, beverage and bio products throughout Alaska.
How we get there is quite simple. GFC constantly works to bring together Alaska's supply chain - starting with the markets and buyers back through the entire chain to the harvesters/growers. Sometimes our work is behind the scenes - individually with each company and sometimes it is done on a larger scale, like the Global Food Alaska conference and business show.
Many of you ask why the name Global Food Collaborative?
Global:
Because our markets, competitors & supply chain partners are just that.
Food:
Because markets broadly use the term food (the finished product) rather then the raw resource. We want to be market focused and they source food, beverage, cosmetics, ingredients, etc.
Collaborative:
Because that is the kind of effort required to reach our goal of growing and strengthening sustainable businesses in Alaska.
Our success comes directly from your participation in this collaborative effort. Our newsletter is a tool we provide to encourage your engagement in this process.
We encourage your comments on the stories and blogs. Each article has a comment section where you can post "addendums" to each article since we know our readers have a powerful knowledge base to share.
The buds have made their way out into the long days of summer light and Alaskans are full into summer production. This issue touches on some of the highlights we've seen over the last couple months in Alaska's "food" landscape. It's getting exciting as more  and more people are walking the walk of collaboration!
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Panalpina's Global Transportation Network Celebrates 10 Years In Alaska
Supply chain discussion in Alaska is almost exclusively about transportation options for product import into, transport/distribution throughout and export from Alaska. Businesses perpetually seek transportation solutions that respond better to their markets and buyers, as well as to their own bottom line. That is why, we advise - to stay well informed and connected to your transportation part ners and communicate consistently about your new business processes, markets and developments to utilize their expertise to really work for you and your business.
Thus, we will revisit our transportation sector in the next few issues to update readers with solutions that may support stronger and better business for your companies.
Panalpina is one such company, with offices and services worldwide, now celebrating 10 years of business in Anchorage. Who do they serve? What is their competitive advantage? What might they offer your business?
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Global Food Alaska 2009: June 10th -11th, Soldotna -Exhibitor Registrations Now Open
We want to responsibly
maximize our bounty of marine and land and are seeking those that have
the products or services that want to collaborate on the most efficient
and effective supply chain solutions with each other and commercial
buyers.  Registration is now open for the best of the best throughout the supply chain to sign up for exhibit space for the 2009 Conference and Business Show. In effort to maximize the results of more and better business - there are a limited number of exhibit spaces, per supply chain category. Please register early to make sure you are represented in your category segment. Who makes up the supply chain? It includes small, medium and large harvesters, growers, manufacturers, secondary manufacturers, quality control experts, 3rd party inspection services, researchers (R&D) and companies representing software support systems, packaging, temperature control and monitoring, transportation, distribution and beyond. Register for an exhibit. See more about targeted exhibitors.
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Good Water - Good Health - Good Business
It was an honor to be invited last month to the opening of Alaska Glacier Refreshments
new manufacturing facility  located just 25 miles North of Anchorage.
It's not every day that we get to meet such a distinguished,
international humanitarian such as Quincy Jones.
It is even more rare for a celebrity such as Mr. Jones to be addressing
a group with an obvious passion and knowledge of the relationship
between drinking water and good health.
It was also an honor
to be part of a grand opening of someone's realization of a dream to
produce and market water from Alaska. While marketing water is not
new to Alaska Glacier Refreshments - they do have a brand new bottle watering facility of their own which was the cause for a big celebration. Congratulations Alaskans Gil and Jason Serrano,
your family, partners and investors. Through your efforts we are
further expanding our capacity and knowledge base in our food supply
chain system with products that provide a broader and broader range of
markets and opportunities for collaboration --- and spreading good
health!
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Why This New Alaskan Can Play A Pivitol Role In Our Foods Future
 Who's the sophisticate in the Tux? By now he is more often seen in the the likely wear of Alaskans living in coastal communities, but we think that this image signifies the different type of new Alaskan he really is. At Global Food Collaborative, it has become evident where there are great strengths and where we have gaps to be addressed along the supply chain. One of those gaps is the sparse number of Alaskans with expertise in food and food processing. It's a wonder since the food industry is the second largest in the US, behind health-care. The Northwest Food Processors Association estimates that it is a $17 billion dollar industry in just Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Alaska, alone. So who is this new Alaskan? He is a food scientist. He is a food scientist with a world of practical and academic experiences and now directs an Alaska-based program charged to add value and economic sustainability to our marine resources. His networks and expertise goes way beyond seafood and we're thrilled to welcome him to Alaska to fill a very much needed gap in food science. Please welcome Dr. Murat Balaban, Director of the University of Alaska, Fishery Industrial Technology Center, located in Kodiak Alaska.
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Kenai River Seafoods To Exclusively Produce and Market Kenai WildŽ Salmon
 Leon Marcincowski, Chair of Cook Inlet Salmon Brand, Inc. and Dan Thompson, President of Kenai River Seafoods announced an agreement that the Kenai WildŽ Salmon brand will be exclusively processed and marketed by Kenai River Seafoods. "This is a marvelous opportunity to gain a working partnership with a local processor to create the sustainable business model we had envisioned for our regional harvesters", said Leon Marcinkowski, a 35+ year local commercial harvester and Board Chair of Cook Inlet Salmon Brand, Inc. (developers and owners of the Kenai WildŽ brand).
Dan Thompson, President of Kenai River Seafoods was pleased to see the agreement come together for what looks to be a robust season. He said last week, "This is a positive move to respond to the marketplace with a nationally recognized brand, backed up by unsurpassed quality standards, with a significant and positive economic impact on our region. Not only are we growing a market segment for quality seafood, but the economic impact to our region by keeping more of the links of the supply chain in our area is what we have all worked so hard to realize. We look forward to being part of a very successful relationship with Cook Inlet Salmon Brand, Inc." Kenai WildŽ is now available to be ordered through Kenai River Seafoods by calling 877.434.7449
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