Ottawa company garners top honors for hot sauces
Recognition is heating up for MyHotSauces.com, Ottawa, which recently received two international awards.
The company owned by Monty Fritts received a 2002 Scovie Award, a high-profile award for hot and spicy foods internationally.
MyHotSauces.com received second place for its Monty's Smoke and Fire Apple Smoked Haba Hot Sauce in the Haba Hot Sauce category. Nearly 600 products competed for top honors. The Scovie Awards are presented by Fiery-Foods and Barbecue Magazine and producers of the National Fiery Foods & Barbecue show, where the award-winning products will be displayed March 1-3 in Albuquerque, N.M.
MyHotSauces.com also earned a first-place award in the 2002 Fiery Food Challenge, a competition sponsored by Chile Pepper magazine. The company's Montgomery's Fire Lizard was named Best Haba Hot Sauce.
For more information on the company, call Fritts at (785) 242-3353 or click on www.myhotsauces.com
Questionnaire: Health club benefits among perk suggestions
Companies that are trying to hold down benefit costs without seeming too tightfisted might want to consider affordable perks such as partial reimbursements for health club membership or aerobics classes at work, the Institute of Management & Administration suggests.
The New York-based newsletter publisher for mid-size companies sent a questionnaire to about 250 subscribers asking for cost-containment pointers and included in a recent edition 21 suggestions that won't break a business's budget.
Other suggestions included providing domestic partner benefits and healthy cooking classes. Some companies said they pay for up to half the cost of an employee's personal computer if the device helps increase productivity away from the office. The firms also offer public transportation subsidies and training programs to help employees improve themselves and develop positive attitudes.
Motley Fool: Name that company
In 1869, a fruit merchant and an icebox manufacturer created me as a food-canning concern. In 1897, one of my chemists invented condensed soup. In 1904, I introduced pork and beans. Millions, including even Andy Warhol, have enjoyed my products. Each year, Americans slurp some 2.5 billion bowls of my chicken noodle, cream of mushroom and tomato soups. My brand names include Pepperidge Farm, Franco-American, V8, Swanson, Pace, Prego and Godiva. I'm based in New Jersey, but I'm very international. My watercress and duck-gizzard soup is hot in China. I rake in more than $6 billion annually. Who am I?
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