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Fresh Solutions Network unveils new website

Fresh Solutions Network has launched a new website for its "Side Delights" brand of potato products: www.sidedelights.com. The new site is comprehensive, highly functional and easy to navigate, offering visitors a full spectrum of product details, potato information and recipe suggestions. fsn

The Side Delights lineup is separated into a grouping of products, and consumers can dig deeper into each grouping to learn more or link instantly to other products and topics that interest them.

Fresh Solutions Network created "Side Delights" in 2014 as a national brand that would unify fresh potato segments under a single name that consumers would easily remember and instantly associate with superior quality. More importantly, establishing the "Side Delights" brand benefits retailers and foodservice operators alike by giving them a full line of fresh potatoes with strong consumer awareness that they can stock and promote to draw traffic and increase sales volumes.

The company recently rebranded its popular line of steamable potatoes, Simply Spuds, to bring it under the umbrella of the "Side Delights" brand. While Simply Spuds will still maintain their legacy website address, visitors to www.simply-spuds.com will be automatically redirected to the steamables section of the new Side Delights website.

“With the launch of our new Side Delights website, we have provided a solution that benefits all parties” Kathleen Triou, president and chief executive officer of Fresh Solutions Network. “Consumers benefit from being able to easily access everything they would want to know about the 'Side Delights' brand in one place; retailers benefit from the increased awareness and purchase intent that a compelling digital brand experience delivers, and the grower-shipper partners who make up Fresh Solutions Network benefit from having consumers and retailers alike learn more about the great potatoes they market under the 'Side Delights' brand.”

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By
Keith Loria

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