The Beekeeper's Daughter

Hackenberg Apiaries, located in Lewisburg, PA, specializes in honey production, bee pollination trucking, and beekeeping education. Founded by David Hackenberg, the apiary contributes to pollination across six states, including Florida, California, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maine, and New York. The company offers a range of natural honey bee products, including granulated sugar, fondant, and sugar syrup, available locally. Additionally, Hackenberg Apiaries provides a beginner beekeeping course and unique fundraising opportunities for local organizations, promoting healthy, flavorful honey as an alternative to mass-produced options. Generated from the website

Core-Mark International is one of the largest broad-line, full-service distributors of packaged consumer products to the convenience retail industry in North America. Founded in 1888, the company provides distribution and logistics services, as well as marketing programs to more than 20,000 retail locations in 46 states and five Canadian provinces through its 25 distribution centers. It services traditional convenience retailers; grocers; mass merchandisers; drug, liquor and specialty stores; and other stores that carry consumer packaged goods. Its facilities include consolidated warehouses called Artic Cascade and Allied Merchandising Industry. These two divisions buy products from suppliers in bulk quantities and then redistribute the products to the majority of other United States Core-Mark centers. Artic Cascade performs consolidation buying of frozen products. AMI performs consolidated buying functions of many non-food products, specifically general merchandise, and health and beauty care products. Core-Mark International is located in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

Gertrude Hawk Chocolates was established in 1936, when Gertrude Hawk began making chocolates in the kitchen of her Dunmore, Pa., home to help support her family. Church groups began raising money by selling her chocolates, and her reputation for creating homemade candy was established. Groups from across the United States continue to use the company s fund-raising programs to raise needed money to achieve their fund-raising goals. Gertrude Hawk Chocolates uses the same time-tested recipes that Hawk created in her kitchen.