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Hansen to Co-Chair NFFA Promotiononal Frozen Food Association appointed Larry Hansen retail co-chairman for the 1998 March National Frozen Food Month promotion.Hansen, who is vice president of grocery sales for Albertson's, will be responsible for these activities related to promoting National Frozen Food Month: chairing national committee meetings, coordinating national programs, developing and implementing

Hansen to Co-Chair NFFA Promotion

onal Frozen Food Association appointed Larry Hansen retail co-chairman for the 1998 March National Frozen Food Month promotion.

Hansen, who is vice president of grocery sales for Albertson's, will be responsible for these activities related to promoting National Frozen Food Month: chairing national committee meetings, coordinating national programs, developing and implementing national projects and supervising and directing the activities of national and regional coordinators.

Seasons Bring New Flavors

LANCASTER COUNTY, Penn. -- Turkey Hill Dairy is introducing several new feature flavors.

These flavors appear for a limited time and cross over several product lines. Suggested retail price for half gallons is $4.29.

The feature flavors for spring are tiger tracks gourmet lite ice cream (vanilla-bean ice cream with orange sherbet swirls and chocolate chips), root beer float premium ice cream, peanut butter marshmallow frozen yogurt, strawberry rhubarb pie premium ice cream, death by chocolate gourmet lite ice cream and wild blueberry nonfat frozen yogurt.

Summer flavors are death by chocolate premium ice cream, raspberries 'n cream gourmet lite ice cream, Snicker doodle dandy frozen yogurt, peaches 'n cream premium ice cream, coconut almond bar gourmet lite ice cream and southern lemon pie nonfat frozen yogurt.

Eskimo Pie Sports Vintage Look

RICHMOND, Va. -- Eskimo Pie here is honoring its 75th anniversary with new packaging that features scenes from advertisements it ran as far back as the 1920s. The new packaging will be featured on Eskimo Pie's Original Dark Stick and Milk Chocolate Stick products.

The company also has introduced SnackWell's low-fat frozen yogurt bars in four flavors: chocolate chocolate, chocolate raspberry, chocolate cherry and chocolate banana. The bars contain 2 grams of fat and 120 calories. The average retail price for a six-pack is $2.69.

Haagen-Dazs Sorbet Debuts

MINNEAPOLIS -- Two new superpremium varieties of fat-free sorbet are being introduced by Haagen-Dazs here: margarita sorbet and raspberry lemonade swirl sorbet. Suggested retail price for the pint-size treat, which has 130 calories per serving, is $3.09.