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MANUFACTURING CONFECTIONER

APRIL 2012Vol. 92, No. 4

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Monday, April 16 Arrival, Board Meeting, Optional Tour Day

Optional tour day. See optional tour day activities atretailconfectioners.org/regionals

8:00 A M – 10:00A M Executive Board Meeting10:00A M –5:00PM Board of Directors Strategic Planning

Session and Board Meeting

Tuesday, April 17 Committee Meetings and Education Day

8:00A M –11:00A M Board of Directors Meeting11:00A M –3:00PM Committee MeetingsLunch on one’s own1:30PM –5:00PM Registration desk open 2:00PM Tour Bus Captain Orientation3:00PM –3:45PM Education Session: Succession Planningand How to Prepare for the Future of Your BusinessKendall Rawls, Rawls Group. Learn how to begin plan-ning for the future of one’s business.

4:00 PM –4:45 PM Education Session: Succession PlanningRoundtable Table groups will be given a different prob-lematic scenario related to succession planning. Aftercoming up with a solution for their given problem, eachgroup will share that solution. Kendall Rawls will serveas the moderator.

5:30PM –7:00PM Suppliers Tell-n-Sell Welcome Recep-tion. Hosted bar and hors d’oeuvres.

7:00PM –8:00PM Next Generation Event. Mixer for RCImembers in their 20s and 30s

9:00 PM RCI Hospitality Suite

Wednesday, April 17Education Day and Candy Clinic

7:30A M –2:00PM Registration desk open8:00A M –8:45A M Welcome buffet breakfast9:00A M –9:45A M Education Session: The Power of EmailMarketing Pamela Starr, Constant Contact. Emailcommunications help businesses stay connected, gen-erate increased referrals, encourage repeat sales and in-still customer loyalty.

10:00A M –10:45A M Education Session: Crisis Communi-cations and Media Relations Joel Doepker, OzarksTechnical Community College. Get tips to deal with themedia to turn potential negative news into a positiveexperience.

11:00A M –11:45A M Education Session: Interventions forProducing Safe Products Susan Moyers, PhD, SillikerLabs. Practical steps to ensure good manufacturingpractices (G M Ps) within confectionery facilities willbe shared. Starting with basic employee hygiene prac-tices, learn about work attire, eating and drinking, andplant traffic patterns all impact food safety.

11:45A M –2:00 PM Candy Clinic setupLunch on one’s own1:00 PM –1:45 PM Education Session: Cross-Contamina-tion: More than the Usual Suspects Susan Moyers Pres-entation continues, including practical steps to avoidmicrobial cross-contamination in food-production fa-cilities. Learn to avoid transferring harmful microor-ganisms to finished products.

2:00PM Candy Clinic followed by Kettle Talk ForumOpen only to RCI members

Candy Clinic:Ceative ideas shared among candymakers.Kettle Talk Forum: Asking and answering questions

about making confections.Dinner on one’s own9:00PMHospitality Suite hosted by RCI board president

Thursday, April 19 Tour Day and Banquet7:00A M –7:45 A M Registration desk open7:00A M –8:00A M Buffet breakfast8:00A M Buses leave for off-site tours• Peterbrooke Chocolates production center — Fran-

chise operation offering chocolate-covered cookies, pret-zels, frozen truffles, popcorn and other confections totheir customers. Production facility is 4,500 sq. ft. andadjoining retail space is 1,500 sq. ft.

• Anheuser Busch brewery tour — Experience the processof brewing and packaging Budweiser beer.

Lunch at River City Restaurant

RCI Spring Regional InstituteRetail Confectioners International will host its 2012 spring regional event in Jacksonvilleand St. Augustine, Florida. www.retailconfectioners.org

• The 3 Sisters Chocolate & Bakery features gourmet cup-cakes and specialty sculpted cakes. Also offers other localfood products in their retail store.

• Sweet Pete’s All Natural Sweets — Set in a wacky andwhimsical house, Sweet Pete’s focuses on providing sim-ple sweets made with real cane sugar and natural flavors.

4:00 PM Buses return to the hotel (travel times are approximate)6:00PM Evening Reception7:00 PM Awards Banquet featuring store awards and live

entertainment

Friday, April 20 Tour Day of St. Augustine7:00A M –7:45 A M Registration desk open7:00A M –8:00A M Buffet breakfast8:00A M Buses leave for off-site tours• Whetstone Chocolates — First known for their

fudge, the Whetstone family expanded their productsto fine chocolates in the 1960s. Today, they are focusedon adding artisan chocolates to their classic collectionof fine chocolates; they now operate three retail stores.

• St. George Street— Self-guided walking tour of historicSt. George Street with these sweet shop stops:

• Savannah Sweets specializes in Southern candy, pecancandies, chocolate pralines, fudge and divinity.

• Whetstone Chocolates welcomes attendees totheir second retail store.

• Tedi’s Olde Thyme Ice Cream — Henry and EstherWhetstone first opened their small ice cream store onSt. George Street in 1966. Today, this store remains apart of the Whetstone Chocolates experience.

• Claude’s Chocolate — Claude Franques and hiswife, Nicole, create European chocolates.

• Kilwin’s franchise stores offer chocolate, toffee,apples, caramel corn and fudge.

• Castillo de San Marcos — More than 330 yearsold, this national monument was never conquered.

Lunch at the Columbia Restaurant.• St. Augustine Alligator Farm & Zoological Park.Admission to the park is not included in the tour day, butRCI tour buses will provide complimentary transportationfrom the lunch site.

4:00 PM Buses return to the hotel (travel times are approximate)Dinner on one’s own

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See youSeptember 9 - 11, 2012

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Monday, June 11

Arrival, Meetings andOptional Tour Day

Trade Show set-up

Board and Committee meetings

Tuesday, June 12

Expo and Education DayTrade Show set-up

Education Session: Wine’s Secret Crush onChocolate; Rose Potts, Blommer Choco-late. Learn about the relationship be-tween wine and chocolate. Potts willtake us through wine and chocolatemaking and present the parallels in themarket, products, health benefits andregional differences as well as the fla-vors of each.

Education Session: Practical HACCP for Food Processors;Heena Patel, Scientific Certification Systems. Learn the busi-ness benefits and practical steps to building a completeH ACC P plan from Scientific Certification Systems, a com-pany focused on certification and verification of food qual-ity, safety and purity claims.

Trade Show

Welcome Reception and Business Card Exchange on tradeshow floor

Associate Member Meeting

Education Session: Cacao Fino de Aroma: AModel for Quality and Sustainability;Juan Carlos Arroyave, Casa Luker. A dis-cussion of Cacao Fino de Aroma (fine-flavored cocoa), the importance of thistype of product and why it is only7 percent of the world’s cocoa produc-tion. Arroyave will also talk about theindustry’s commitment to developing and advancing the

cocoa-farming culture, the agricultural model plan and ed-ucation on best agricultural practices to maximize yieldsand quality while promoting sustainability, environmen-tal responsibility and fair trade.

Optional Evening in San Francisco— RCI will provide a com-plimentary shuttle to transport attendees to and from thehost hotel and the Fisherman’s Wharf area in San Francisco.

Dinner on one’s own

Next Generation Event

RCI Hospitality Suite hosted by incoming board presidentJason Coblentz, Coblentz Chocolate Company

Wednesday, June 13

Annual Meeting, Expo, Candy Clinicand Education Day

Breakfast and Annual Membership Meeting

Education Session: Packaging and Marketing for the Whole-sale Segment; Dan Dermer, Sweet Packaging. Dermer willdiscuss how to use packaging to market and distributeconfections in different wholesale dis-tribution channels. He will demon-strate how to increase sales bysegmenting one’s approach to reachdifferent markets and provide insightinto the services that need to be pro-vided to wholesale customers. Learnhow to maximize your wholesale prof-itability through the use of packaging.

Trade Show

Set-up for Candy Clinic & the Catalog Swap

Education Session: WhatDoes Natural Meanto You; DennisWitzel, consultant,and Joe Sofia, CargillCocoa & Chocolate.When customersask for a natural

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RCI Convention & Industry ExpoRetail Confectioners International will host its 2012 annual convention in San Francisco, California.The annual convention will be held June 11 –15. More details are available on the RCI website.

retailconfectioners.org

Rose Potts

Juan Carlos Arroyave

Dan Dermer

Joe Sofia Dennis Witzel

chocolate or confection, there is no clear definition of whatthis includes, because the FDA has no clear definition.Witzel and Sofia will discuss common industry standards,controversial ingredients, as well as the right questions toask your customers to find out how they define natural.

Candy Clinic and Kettle Talk

Evening Reception and Awards Banquet

Thursday, June 14

Tour DayBreakfast Buffet

Jelly Belly Candy Company Factory Tour — Family-ownedcandy manufacturer in operation since 1898. Jelly beans,gummies, chocolate-covered treats and seasonal sweets.Operating plants in California, Illinois and Thailand, serv-ing consumers in more than 60 countries. RCI will tour the215,000 sq. ft. production plant featuring robotics and ma-chinery innovations.

Lunch provided by Jelly Belly Candy Company

Ghirardelli Outlet Store — Discount store in San Leandrofeatures Ghirardelli products such as baking chocolatebars, peppermint bark, cocoa powder, baking chips,chocolate by the case, ice cream, fudge, caramel sauce,holiday overstocks and great packaging ideas. Althoughthey do not offer tours, we will sample some of their prod-ucts made in the Bay Area.

Blommer Chocolate Company Plant Tour — Family-owned chocolate and cocoa products supplier founded in1939. Three facilities in the United States and a fourth inCanada. RCI will tour their 115,000 sq. ft. production plantin Union City.

Dinner on one’s own

Friday, June 15

Tour DayBreakfast Buffet

Lunch provided on the tour

Guittard Chocolate Company — Founded in 1868, Guit-tard Chocolate Company is a family-owned chocolatecompany. RCI will tour Guittard’s Burlingame facility wheredried cacao beans are transformed into a variety of choco-late products for a variety of industries.

Golden Gate Bridge

Walking Chocolate Tour of San Francisco: A leisurely walkto visit some gourmet chocolate businesses. Attendeeswill receive a Chocolate Lover Card for discounts at manyof the stops.

RCI will stop for samples and presentations at the followingconfectionery stores:

Ferry Building Marketplace — The Ferry Building Market-place is a gathering of local farmers, artisan producers andindependent food businesses. Located within the historicFerry Building, shops feature artisan cheeses, local fish andmuch more.

• Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker — ScharffenBerger Chocolate Maker was founded in 1997 as partof the resurgence in artisan chocolate-making. A tastecomparison of their single-origin dark chocolate barswill be offered.

• Recchiuti Confections — Owner and chocolatierMichael Recchiuti dries lavender, tarragon and lemonverbena, purchased at local farmers’ markets, to use ininfusions for his truffles.

• Neo Cocoa — Chocolate shop known for truffles.

Fog City News — More than just a newsstand, this shophas a large selection of premium chocolate bars.

Leonidas — Belgian chocolates are featured. Drinkingchocolate and a featured truffle will be available.

Teuscher — Swiss chocolates are featured at this Teuscherretail store.

Cocoa Bella — features chocolates from all over the world.Sample American and classic European chocolates.

Dinner on one’s own

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RCI Convention & Industry Expo

2012 RCI Events

Hawaii Reconnect follows ConventionJune 17 – 20

Canadian Chocolate TourSeptember 18 – 21, 2012