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HOT STUFF: Blount Fine Foods President and CEO Todd Blount, with a couple of the company’s new products, on its Fall River production line, from left, Beef PHO and Coconut Chicken & Noodle soups.
 / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Blount soups up products to feed growth

Fastest Growing Companies | $75M and above | 1st place CEO (or equivalent): Todd Blount, president and CEO 2017 Revenue: $338,253,858 2015 Revenue: $233,695,825 Revenue growth: 44.7% Blount Fine...
WASTE NOT: Earthly co-founders Frank Mastrobuono, left, and Mike Kowalczyk, center, pick up food waste at Empire Tea & Coffee in Newport. Earthly produces worm castings, a natural fertilizer. Mastrobuono shows the finished potting mix, as Kowalczyk and Empire manager Josh Unorski talk. 
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Earthly makes sure discarded food isn’t wasted

Innovative Companies | Energy & the Environment Worm manure, known as castings, helps cannabis grow, the minds behind North Kingstown-based Earthly Solutions Inc. have discovered. Frank...
CAKE WALK: Juli Chapin, co-owner of CakeSafe, which produces a transportation system for safely moving cakes. Chapin is pictured on Torrey Road in South Kingstown, one of the town’s steepest hills, using a CakeSafe to keep a cake in check on the steep incline.
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

CakeSafe provides life hacks for bakers

Innovative Companies | Food, Beverages & Agriculture The story of CakeSafe LLC starts nearly 30 years ago during a nail-biter of a car ride. Juli Chapin,...

Town Dock strives for sustainable squid market

Fastest Growing Companies | $75M and above | 4th place CEO (or equivalent): Ryan Clark, CEO 2017 Revenue: $91,814,388 2015 Revenue: $71,208,756 Revenue growth: 28.9% The Town Dock in...

Five Questions With: Meghan Kavanaugh

Have you ever ordered a dish at a restaurant but when it came to your table, it wasn’t quite what you expected? Or browsed...
AMERICANN HAS BROKEN ground on the first phase of a greenhouse cannabis facility in Freetown. / COURTESY AMERICANN INC.

AmeriCann breaks ground on cannabis facility in Freetown

FALL RIVER – AmeriCann Inc., an agricultural technology company, celebrated a groundbreaking for a 30,000-square-foot cannabis cultivation and processing center in Freetown Tuesday. The facility,...
DUNKIN' BRANDS is changing the brand name of Dunkin' Donuts to Dunkin', starting January 2019. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/PATRICK T. FALLON

Dunkin’ Donuts to rebrand as Dunkin’

PROVIDENCE – Dunkin’ Donuts plans to drop the Donuts effective January 2019, the Dunkin’ Brands announced Tuesday. To be clear, the company isn’t planning to...

Stadium Theatre hosts 6th annual Beer Fest fundraiser Oct. 4

WOONSOCKET – The Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Centre, at Monument Square, will host its sixth annual Beer Fest Oct. 4 to support the arts-focused...
CIVIC BOOSTERS: The Guild owners Devin Kelly, left, and Jeremy Duffy were recognized for their efforts to
create jobs and revitalize their Pawtucket neighborhood.
 / COURTESY THE GUILD

Guild owners honored by Pawtucket Foundation

JEREMY DUFFY AND DEVIN KELLY, owners of The Guild in Pawtucket, were honored as People of the Year by the Pawtucket Foundation during the...
FEAST & FETTLE has reached its minimum crowdfunded fundraising goal through MicroVentures. The meal prep and delivery service will use the money to fund the renovation of a 2,600-square-foot commercial kitchen in East Providence. / COURTESY FEAST & FETTLE

Feast & Fettle hits minimum fundraising goals in crowdfunded capital campaign

PROVIDENCE - Feast & Fettle, a meal prep and delivery service, has reached its minimum capital goal in its crowdfunding capital campaign with MicroVentrues,...
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