This year’s HPBExpo (held March 5–7 in Nashville, Tennessee) experienced a substantial increase in registration and exhibitors, mirroring the economy’s steady rise and consumers’ willingness to take on remodeling and home-improvement projects. HPBExpo 2015 featured 375 exhibitors, up 22% from last year, and 8,145 total registrants, a 54% increase over…

Ed Fisher, founder of Big Green Egg Inc., was named a 2015 inductee of the Barbecue Hall of Fame®by the American Royal Association. Ed Fisher was one of the first people in the United States to catch on to the fun and flavor of kamado cooking. After eating a meal…

HearthDistribution.com featured its new pizza oven/outdoor-cooking center (www.hearthdistribu tion.com/product/SNH-OCC.html), along with a sampling of its flavored cooking pellets, at the HPBA Pacific Dealer Round-Up, held May 4–6 in Folsom, California. The company also displayed its wide variety of outdoor firepit burners, log sets, and hearth pads.

The demand for…

The World Food Championships and Bull Outdoor® Products announced recently that the Bull Burger Battles have been fired up for a third season in 2015. Bull Burger Battles are a nationwide series of live-event burger cookoffs held to find the best burger cooks and chefs across the country. The champions…

C.R. Plastic Products Inc. recently purchased a new 300,000–square-foot manufacturing facility and corporate headquarters in Stratford, Ontario. For the past 21 years, C.R. Plastic Products has been designing and manufacturing premiumquality casual furniture from postconsumer recycled plastic. What started as a small flea-market business has grown into a global enterprise,…