Food

Food shows are the place to spot trends, and that’s just what we did last week. We traveled to San Francisco and undoubtedly ate our way through the Winter Fancy Foods, surrounded by innovators [...]

These past several years have brought on higher awareness of many social issues, climate change being one of them. Now more than ever, consumers are becoming more and more conscious of their [...]

 The Specialty Food Association recently hosted its 44th Winter Fancy Foods Show. The show gathered thousands of specialty food buyers and distributors at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for [...]

Brands have been using product placement as an advertising tool since most of us can remember. It’s always been around in movies and TV shows, but now the attention has turned to social [...]

Sustainability is a hot topic, which means the spotlight is on brands and how they are approaching the trend of going green. Most consumers would be surprised to learn that they can’t [...]

Hi, I’m Steve Gaither. I’m the CEO and founder of JB Chicago, an integrated marketing agency, and a partner at Windy City Food Brands, a company dedicated to helping food + bev brands grow. Now [...]

Home to Wrigleyville, Lakeview East, Lakeview West, North Halsted and Boystown; Lakeview is the place to be for all things local. Lakeview is located on the north side of Chicago. Known for [...]

As Chicagoans, we live in a city comprised of what seems to be a billion different neighborhoods. That being said, sometimes it’s hard to make time in our busy schedules to get out of our own [...]

Creating a new food product – something that no one else has thought of or marketed – can be a difficult task, but the creators of RawNature5 protein drinks have taken on the challenge and done [...]