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advanced manufacturing

How North Texas Meets the Needs of Advanced Manufacturing Companies

by | Jun 6, 2019
From high-tech fighter jets and the most-advanced helicopters in the world, to long-lasting lipsticks and packaged pasta, Dallas-Fort Worth is home to a hotbed of advanced manufacturing facilities.
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Chicks on Vic: Female Business Owners Team Up on Victory Avenue
by | Mar 8, 2019
The "Chicks on Vic"—a group of women who own businesses on Victory Avenue in Dallas—have teamed up to support one another in their businesses.
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Dallas Startup With the ‘World’s First Transparent Marketplace’ Helps Businesses Cut Costs
by | Feb 14, 2019
NickelCommerce hopes to save food and beverage businesses money with low-priced cost-tracking and a simple inventory system. Now, it's ramping up growth and looking for some outside funding.
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Feast Your Eyes on This: Dallas’ Unicorn-Themed Dessert Bar
by | Jan 28, 2019
The Magical Dessert Bar, located in Deep Ellum, is being called the first-of-its-kind in the U.S by its entrepreneurial founders. The first month has seen so much success, the shop already has a Houston branch in the works.
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Socially Conscious Food Distributor FoodMaven is Expanding to Dallas

by | Oct 18, 2018
Colorado-based FoodMaven, a company with a social impact mission to affordably deliver food, makes its first move out-of-state by heading to North Texas.
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Pei Wei Pokes at Panda, Hopes to Be “The Wei Forward” With Clean-Label Initiative
by | Oct 15, 2018
The DFW-based restaurant chain has launched its transparency campaign, calling out competitors to reveal their own ingredient labels in a series of cheeky tweets.
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funding
Follow the Money: INTREorg Gets $247K, Firm Raising $5M for Robokind, projekt202 Acquires Studio
by | Sep 13, 2018
From Cypress Growth Capital to Modo Payments and Ancor Capital Partners, here are some of the deals involving companies and investors with North Texas ties.
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Locavore
Locavore Whips Up Commercial Kitchen for ‘Foodie Trailblazers’
by | Sep 5, 2018
Locavore works like a coworking space, where individuals or startups can rent space month-to-month but with commercial-grade appliances.
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It’s a Year-Round Produce Harvest at Eden Green Technology in Cleburne

by | Jun 28, 2018
The company showed off its state-of-the-art, 44,000-square-foot facility in Cleburne where there’s row after row of 18-foot stalks, each with 36 plants growing from floor to ceiling.
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trends
Here are 5 Food and Beverage Trends You Should Watch
by | May 25, 2018

The food and beverage sector is always evolving to meet the challenge of a changing marketplace, and in its recent Global Food Trends report, real estate professional services firm JLL highlights five trends that landlords and restaurateurs should track this year....

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foodbev innovation
Site Selection Ranks DFW No. 1 Most Competitive in Food & Beverage
by | May 25, 2018
The impact of the more than 15,000 food and beverage businesses in DFW is substantial, accounting for roughly 370,000 local jobs. And, DFW remains a center of invention in one of the most competitive sectors in the nation.
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Pilotworks Dallas General Manager William Judge
Pilotworks Has a Startup Sensibility With On-Demand Kitchen Space
by | May 22, 2018
Kitchen coworking: Pilotworks is designed for makers and food entrepreneurs in various industries — baking, consumer packaged goods, catering, and cooking classes — to have their own space.
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Party

It’s Party Time! Social Dining Platform Brings People Together

by | Mar 22, 2018
Founder and CEO Carl LaFlamme sees DinDin Party as a new way for people to connect through food.
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Dallas Innovates 2018:
Creators to Watch
by | Jan 11, 2018
From fashion and gaming to film and interior design, these companies and creatives are known for innovation.
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Taste
Taste Community Restaurant: Pay-What-You-Can Concept Opens in Fort Worth
by | Dec 11, 2017
Taste is the only fully sustainable restaurant in the Dallas-Fort Worth area adding to a list of about 60 pay-what-you-can-models around the nation.
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The event's grand finale will be on Nov. 11 at the Longhorn Ballroom with tent lounges, a "futuristic" campfire, a concert, and cooking by Mathew Peters.
Take a Trip to Texas’ Future with The Edge of Texas This Fall
by | Aug 25, 2017
Produced by Texas Monthly and presented by VisitDallas, the inaugural event will run Nov. 10-11 in downtown Dallas.
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