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Greensboro-based HF Group Holding Corporation, a distributor of Chinese/Asian food, is going public.

Publicly traded company Atlantic Acquisition Corp, now known as HF Foods Group, completed the merger with HF Group Holding at the closing of business Wednesday.

HF Group Holding has three subsidiaries: Greensboro-based Han Feng; Florida-based New Southern Food Distributors Inc.; and Atlanta-based Kirnland Food Distribution Inc.

Han Feng was founded in Kernersville in 1997 by husband and wife…

When it comes to fitness and athletics, there’s a lot of competition: beating the other team, getting on the podium at a local 5K, achieving a new PR.

But, local trainer and entrepreneur Nicole Eason is currently interested in beating Milwaukee.

Eason and business partner Jeff Hall are planning to open the first Tennessee location of Shred415, a fitness concept based out of Chicago, in East Memphis’ Crown Centre.

Located at 6450 Poplar Ave. near International Paper Co.’s headquarters, Shred415…

Todd Masonis co-founded the internet startup Plaxo and sold it to Comcast for a reported $150 million to $170 million. Ready for the next challenge, he started grinding and roasting cocoa beans first in his kitchen before co-founding Dandelion Chocolate in 2010.

The Cincinnati chef in charge of the kitchen at Pendleton's Boomtown Biscuits & Whiskey was in his element during Wednesday night's comfort food-themed episode of “Guy's Grocery Games.”

Chef Christian Gill took home the victory – and $20,000 cash – from the Food Network show hosted by Guy Fieri, which has four chefs compete in cooking challenges using ingredients they literally take off of the shelves of a studio grocery store.

It's not Gill's first time on Food Network. He competed on “Guy's…

Wells Enterprises, which bills itself as the largest family-owned ice cream manufacturer in the United States, now has a corporate presence in Chicago.

Last month, the LeMars, Iowa-based company, whose most famous and widely-distributed brand is Blue Bunny ice cream, moved its marketing, sales and finance functions from Minneapolis to Chicago.

A team of some 20 Wells employees is now housed in a brightly-decorated 12,000-square-foot space at 351 W. Hubbard in the city’s River North neighborhood. The…

It wasn’t the plan for Social Restaurant Group to open La Vie, their swanky rooftop spot at The Wharf, at the height of the busy summer season. But as so often happens, logistics, permits and other factors got in the way, and the coastal-themed restaurant threw its doors open in July to the hordes drawn to the city’s bustling new waterfront destination.

The opening came as SRG partners Mike Bramson and Naeem Mohd have a lot of other irons in the fire. The pair, who began working together…

In 2005, there were 26 varieties of beer at the fair, five of which were brewed in Minnesota. In 2017, there were 396 varieties, 193 of which were brewed in Minnesota.

Jared Whalen, a chef who trained under French master Jean-Robert de Cavel, died from heart failure Aug. 20. The Hamilton resident was 44.

“Chef Jared” interned with de Cavel at the acclaimed Maisonette (which closed in 2005), then was hired on after he completed his internship. He followed his mentor to Pigall's in downtown Cincinnati and later was named chef de cuisine at de Cavel's Pho Paris in Oakley.

In 2008, Whalen helped conceptualize and launch Chalk Food + Wine in Covington, before he was…

As summer winds down, so do some of the opportunities to snag outdoor eats from some of Dayton's finest food trucks. To commemorate the occasion, the Dayton Business Journal has compiled a list of the top 20 food trucks in Dayton worth a visit before the leaves start to change. The list was compiled using rankings from local Yelp.com users.

Yelp users' favorite Dayton-area food trucks offer a wide range of cuisine, from tacos to deli fare to barbecue to pizza. Five Mexican and Latin American eateries…