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Deja vu all over again: Is China’s PPE supply chain headed for another crisis?

Opinion We’re heading closer the 2023 Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday, when factories shut down and tens of millions of workers who reside in factory dorms travel the country to be with their families. While the official CNY date is January 22, 2023, many factories will start closing two weeks prior and will not resume production until early February, when…

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Fighting Hunger | Company | Uncategorized

Elara’s meal giving partner Feeding America claims #1 spot on Forbes’ 2022 list of ‘America’s Top Charities’

Elara’s Meal Giving Partner Feeding America claims #1 spot on Forbes’ 2022 list of ‘America’s Top Charities’ Through Elara’s One Case • One Meal program, for each case of an Elara product you purchase, we donate a meal to a person struggling with hunger through our meal giving partner – Feeding America – and its network of 200 member food…

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Company | COVID-19 | Products | In the News

Elara CEO Dan Grinberg shares his 2022 Disposable Glove Market Outlook with Total Food Service

Total Food Service magazine interviewed Elara Brands’ CEO, Dan Grinberg, for his outlook on the 2022 disposable glove market in its May edition. With 30-plus years of industry experience, Dan is a trusted resource for those looking for guidance about this essential product category. After two years of extreme price and supply chain volatility and with restaurant traffic picking up,…

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Products | In the News

Wait, What? Vinyl glove prices expected to rise…again?

  The vinyl glove rollercoaster ride continues. After retreating from record high prices during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, vinyl glove prices could jump back up in the first quarter of 2022. Prices could increase $5 to $10 per case of 1,000 gloves, perhaps even more. While this is nowhere near the increases seen in 2020, they are still…

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Newsroom | In the News

Elara’s Dan Grinberg Named Chairman, Island Harvest Food Bank’s Board of Directors

Elara’s Founder and President Dan Grinberg has been elected Chairman of the Board of Island Harvest Food Bank, a leading hunger-relief organization and Feeding America member, located on Long Island, New York. Dan, who previously served as the board’s Treasurer, has a long history of service and is dedicated to helping Island Harvest Food Bank in its mission to end…

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Fighting Hunger | Company

Join Elara’s Drive for Five…Million Meals!

  Elara’s Drive for Five continues! Five million meals, that is. Filling empty plates, one case at a time. Fighting hunger is something that Elara Brands has focused on ever since we opened for business. Through our One Case • One Meal program, we donate a meal to Feeding America for each case of product purchased. Thanks to you, Elara…

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Fighting Hunger

Easy Ways to Help People Facing Hunger

When it comes to food, many are faced with endless possibilities. Choosing might mean deciding between one recipe or another. Tacos or salad? Or one restaurant or another. Chinese or Italian? However, for millions of people in America, a daily meal isn’t a choice between different dishes. It’s a choice between food and other crucial needs—like medicine, electricity, or childcare….

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Company | COVID-19 | Products | Uncategorized

supply chain update: Product availability and prices in flux

The disposable gloves, aprons, and bags categories are experiencing 3 very challenging market conditions simultaneously, creating volatility in both pricing and product availability: 1) Increasing Ocean Freight Rates Already unprecedented ocean freight rates continue to increase, adding to the costs of products shipping from Asia to the U.S. The incremental cost for a case of gloves, aprons, or bags can…

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Fighting Hunger

Choose to Fight Hunger This September

Do you ever talk through endless dinner options with your family? You could make pasta, but everybody wants a different type of sauce. You could eat out, but you can’t find a place that everyone in your family will enjoy. Finally, you each prepare something different to eat because you can’t agree on one dish. Many of us have choices…

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