Jerky
Company Recalls 23,200 Pounds of Beef Jerky
ATLANTA (AP) -- A Michigan company, Mirab USA Inc., is recalling about 23,200 pounds of beef jerky sold across the country because it may contain the animal drug Doramectin. The following packages of beef jerky sold in Georgia and neighboring states have been recalled:
--3-ounce packages of STEAKHOUSE BEEF JERKY, ORIGINAL, with a best before date of 04/14/08, 04/20/08, 04/21/08 or 04/26/08. This product was distributed to retail stores in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.
--3-ounce packages of STEAKHOUSE BEEF JERKY, TERIYAKI. Each label bears a best before date of 04/14/08, 04/19/08. 04/20/08. This product was distributed to retail stores in California and Florida.
--3.5-ounce packages of GOLD AWARD BEEF JERKY, TERIYAKI.
NPS and PMI: A marriage made in heaven?
National Paintball Supply (NPS) and Pursuit Marketing, Inc. (PMI) have been bitter competitors almost from the time both companies hit the market. Both worked to sponsor the highest level teams, out-do each other in marketing and hype, and undercut each other on pricing in the all-important war to gain market share. Now that matchmaker Angelo, Gordon and Company, an investment firm based in New York, New York has come along and put the two companies together, what does it mean to the rest of the industry and the sport itself? Back in Time I got a good laugh out of several emails I got from industry and sport insiders who claimed they knew about this 'combining' months ago. The story actually started over a year ago, when rumors started circulating that NPS was going to try and buy out PMI, in order to gain a capability for manufacturing paint. Paintballs are the coin of the realm in the paintball world, a gateway to opportunities to make money in other ventures. Think of it in the terms of a convenience store: A local stop-and-rob doesn't make much in the way of profit on selling gasoline, but it gives customers a reason to be at their store, and the idea is to get customers inside to buy pop, smokes, jerky, or taquitos, which have a MUCH higher profit margin. So it is with paint. Distributing paint doesn't have much in the way of markup at the wholesale level, but having paint that everyone wants gives a distributor a chance to get customers in the door to buy other products like markers, accessories, and the like which has a MUCH higher markup than paint does.
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