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36 Hard Rolls
While I've never personally made a perishable food donation, finding a home for a few dozen hard rolls hardly seemed a challenge ...
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8 Mobile Apps That Can Help Low Income Families
Here are eight mobile apps (plus two online only) that can help the low income population access information such as free summer meals for children, the nearest grocery store that accepts food stamps or what are the best prices for ...
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And charity for all
On Lincoln's birthday in 1948, the train named the Abraham Lincoln Friendship Train launched from Lincoln, Nebraska with carloads of food donated by the local residents and residents of Colorado and Wyoming. Even more donations were picked up in Iowa, ...
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Who’s Hungry?
At barbecues, picnics and family reunions all across the country this summer, the most anticipated question of the day was "Who's Hungry?". Shouted out by the host, it signals that the hot dogs and hamburgers are ready and let the ...
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6 Mobile Apps That Can Help Low Income Families
can help the low income population access information such as free summer meals for children, the nearest grocery store that accepts food stamps or what are the best prices for milk in the area ...
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About Ashok

Ashok Vasudevan is Co-founder & CEO of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company that makes Tasty Bite and a range of other natural, ethnic and specialty foods sold in major supermarkets globally.

Prior to Tasty Bite, Ashok headed the India desk of Pepsi World Trade in Somers, New York. He received Pepsi’s prestigious MVP award in 1991.

Before joining Pepsi, Ashok spent 10 years with Unilever in various functions that included Management Development, Sales & Marketing and International Business

He is involved in several non-profit organizations in India and the US including:

  • Director on the Board of The Fairfield County Business Council
  • Member of the Chairman’s Circle of the US-India Business Council,
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Entrepreneurship and a member of the Business
    advisory Council of Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai, India.
    Ashok Vasudevan graduated in Agricultural Sciences from Bangalore, and post graduate degrees at Bajaj Institute of Management in Bombay and the Harvard Business School.

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About Meera

Meera Vasudevan is Co-founder of Preferred Brands International, a Connecticut-based food company that makes Tasty Bite, a range of natural, ethnic food sold in major supermarkets around the world.

Meera also co-founded ASG-Omni a US and India based consulting firm involved in the design and execution of entry strategies for large US corporations looking to do business in India.

Meera began her career in market research at MARG (Marketing & Research Group), India. MARG is now part of the Nielsen group. After nearly a decade there, Meera co-founded India’s first specialist and largest qualitative research firm, Quantum Market Research. She worked on a number of entry strategies for global brands looking to enter the Indian market and on national social research projects for UNICEF.

She has served on some non-profit boards in the US, and is currently on the board of the United Way of Western Connecticut.

Meera has a Bachelors in English with post-graduate qualifications in Marketing from the University of Madras and INSEAD, France.

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