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For Immediate Release

Veteran chef mans new test kitchen at Chicago’s premiere flavor house

CHICAGO, June 11, 2009 – Sethness Greenleaf, Inc., the world-renowned creator and manufacturer of food and beverage flavors, has named Chef Greg Kaminski to head its new state-of-the-art applications test kitchen. Kaminski, 45, a graduate of the nationally acclaimed School of Culinary Arts at Kendall College and former restaurant executive chef and commercial food service executive, plays a primary hands-on role formulating prototypes involving the company’s custom flavors that go into beverages, bakery components and finished goods, confection, dairy products, syrups, sauces and other general food industry items.

“Given our world-class reputation for flavors, as well as for creating stable, long-lasting beverage emulsions and both citrus and neutral clouding agents, our customers increasingly look to us for expert flavor application advice,” said Sethness Greenleaf President Patrick Kearney. “In reality our applications kitchen is an extension of our customers’ on-site applications facilities, and thanks to our deep understanding of their production processes, we have the ability to expedite the creation of custom flavors,” Kearney said.

More that three-fourths of the flavor creation and related formulation work conducted in Sethness Greenleaf’s applications kitchen is devoted exclusively to beverages which include fruit and energy drinks, juice-based drinks, cocktail mixes, cordials, liquors, wine and wine coolers, beverage syrups, flavored coffees and teas, slush and frozen cocktails and carbonated drinks, beverage clouding agents and specialty emulsions. The remainder of the application work focuses largely on frozen desserts, confections and bakery components and finished goods.

“One of our customers, a bakery mix manufacturer, requested help recently in creating a unique flavor for a new product they were developing,” Kaminski said. “So, in the interest of time and money, they provided their proprietary mix formula to us. By expediting the process using our advanced on-site technology, we quickly formulated the desired flavor within the parameters of our customer’s production process. As a result, our customer was able to launch its new product in record time.”

Depending on the complexity of the work conducted by Sethness Greenleaf’s application kitchen, customer solutions are delivered usually in a matter of days. Working jointly and in close physical proximity with the company’s flavor laboratory and its senior flavor chemists, the applications kitchen represents the latest technological enhancement to the 129-year-old flavor house.

About Sethness Greenleaf Inc. Established in Chicago in 1880, Sethness-Greenleaf was founded to meet the flavor needs of the bourgeoning U.S. food and beverage industries. By providing product excellence, responsive customer service and reliable delivery at affordable prices the company has become the trusted partner of food and beverage concerns across the country. Sethness Greenleaf’s commitment to flavor innovation and creativity, product quality, legendary customer service, reliability and affordability has grown exponentially for well over a century. Today the company serves a global clientele with a team of dedicated flavor industry professionals who create, manufacture and deliver perfect natural and natural/artificial flavors every time. For more information about Sethness Greenleaf, please go to: www.sethnessgreenleaf.com.

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