Our Companies Speak: Walden Farms
Walden Farms began making salad dressing in 1972 using healthful ingredients with universal appeal to create consumer brand loyalty for our products. When searching for kosher certification, our goal was again to create universal appeal by choosing the certifier most trusted and respected by those who look for kosher foods. As expected, Walden Farms consumer base, store count and market share have all benefited from our relationship with the Orthodox Union.
Salad Days For The OU
A survey of the challenges and opportunities for the Kosher supervision of salad dressings.
Dawn Foods and the OU: 2 Perfect “Matching Circles”
Few companies understand bakery and kosher as much as Dawn Foods. Dawn Foods has a rich lexicon of kosher terms that includes the word hamantaschen (special pastry for the Purim holiday), which the company helped make for a carnival at the Shaare Shamayim-Beth Judah synagogue in Philadelphia.
Ancient Bowfin Presents New Ich-Theological Conundrum
What is the Kosher status of the bowfin, the notorious freshwater fish?
An Upscale Brand Of Pizza
Upscale Foods, of the St. Paul, MN suburb of New Hope, was established in 1998 when the Orthodox owners of a kosher food distribution company acquired a kosher food manufacturing facility with a product line known as “The Old City Café.” Old City was originally a restaurant, but over time it evolved into a producer of frozen foods, most notably frozen pizza.
A Pizza Success Story: Bake It, And They Will Come
The history of Mendelsohn’s Pizza, the tri-state’s largest pizza store.
Dawn Food Products: Where Bakery Success Starts
Since out beginning in 1920 as a thriving bakery in Jackson, Michigan, we have grown to become one of the world’s largest full-service, family-owned bakery industry suppliers. Dawn is a single source supplier to the bakery and foodservice industry providing a complete range of mixes, bases, icings, fillings, frozen and ready-to-bake products, ready-to-sell products and […]
OU Symbol: More Than Just Food To Eat
An editorial from Behind the Union Symbol, explaining the significance behind Kosher supervision and eating kosher food.
“Korn” Syrup And The Real Thing
The inside story of sugar and other sweeteners from the Kosher perspective.
Water+Vitamins+Nutrients+OU KOSHER=Vitaminwater!
Vitaminwater is produced by Energy Brands Inc., which was formed in 1996 to create biologically better water so that all consumers can feel
good about what they drink. The company’s core product, Vitaminwater, was introduced in 2,000, pioneered its category, and continues to remain the leader in the enhanced water category today.
