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BC Centre for Food & Beverage Marketers to host tour at Rogers Sugar Factory & Gourmet Warehouse
The BC Centre for Food & Beverage Marketers tour will allow food & beverage industry professionals to have an inside look at two influential businesses, learn about trends shaping our market place and enjoy a unique educational experience.
ABBOTSFORD, BC, February 12, 2011 /Canada PR News/ -- Thursday, January 10, 2011 - BC Centre for Food & Beverage Marketers has announced today that it will host a tour at the Rogers Sugar Factory and the Gourmet Warehouse in Vancouver.
The tour, which will be held on 21st of February 2011, will allow food & beverage industry professionals to have an inside look at two influential businesses. At the event, you will learn about trends shaping our food & beverage market place and enjoy a unique educational experience.
The story of Rogers Sugar - whose refinery has been on Vancouver's waterfront for more than 100 years - begins back in 1881. Tours to the public ended a dozen years ago...this is your opportunity to see one of the founding industries in Vancouver! Learn how raw sugar is transported from tropical countries to our port, where it is refined and packaged. As the largest sugar refinery in Canada, Rogers produces a wide variety of products.
The second stop features a demonstration and tasting. With her worldwide culinary education, successful cooking school, unique wholesale foods business, and exuberant personality Caren McSherry is one of the best known names in the Canadian culinary industry. Caren's Cooking School is the longest running private school in Canada. She also owns the successful Gourmet Warehouse, offering specialty foods at wholesale prices to the public—the first of its type in Canada.
New members are welcome to attend. Tour registration is $20 per person. See www.bc-food-and-beverage-marketers.com for further information.
BC Centre for Food & Beverage Marketers is a trade association for owners, producers and marketers in the industry.
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Laurie Daschuk
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