Your Inspiration At Home Wins Four Awards At Prestigious Food Festival
Company has won 140 food awards in past three years
GOLD COAST, Australia and NEWARK, Ohio, July 16, 2014 — Your Inspiration At Home announced that it has been honored with four medals at the prestigious 2014 RASV Melbourne Fine Food Awards, including three gold medals and one silver.
The company’s award-winning products included Caramelized Balsamic, Honey Caramelized Balsamic, Maple Bourbon Caramelized Balsamic and Maple Caramelized Balsamic vinegars. Recently at the Specialty Food Association’s Summer Fancy Food Show event in New York, gourmet vinegar was identified as one of the top 10 food trends this year.
Your Inspiration At Home (www.yourinspirationathome.com.au) is part of CVSL Inc. [OTCQX: CVSL]. It is a micro-enterprise company whose line includes hand-crafted gourmet seasonings; dip mixes; herb, nut and spice mixtures; oils and vinegars; meat rubs; salt dusts and chocolate powder blends.
The company was founded in 2011 in Australia and has been awarded over 140 fine food medal honors in only three years of operation. It recently launched a strategy of global expansion as part of CVSL. Your Inspiration At Home opened its North American headquarters in Newark, Ohio in 2013 and surpassed 5,000 global sales consultants earlier this year.
“These newest awards are fantastic. Our versatile balsamic vinegars have been a great success for us. Our motto is ‘Inspired Globally – Eat Locally,’ and these awards help to further validate the quality of the global gourmet experience we offer,” said Colleen Walters, Your Inspiration at Home’s founder, CEO and Chief Spice CuratorTM.
“I had just read about the recent food trends and the skyrocketing popularity of boutique vinegars – and now, with these Fine Food Awards Medals from some of the toughest food critics in Australia only a matter of weeks later, we believe it’s obvious that our products truly continue to be trend-setting,” she added.
About CVSL (www.cvsl.us.com)
CVSL is a growing group of micro-enterprise companies that connect social media networks into an ever-expanding virtual “community” of social commerce. CVSL companies currently include The Longaberger Company, a 40-year old maker of hand-crafted baskets and other home decor items; Your Inspiration At Home, an award-winning maker of hand-crafted spices and other gourmet food items from around the world; Tomboy Tools, a direct seller of tools designed for women as well as home security systems; Agel Enterprises, a global seller of nutritional products in gel form as well as a skin care line sold under the Ageless brand, operating in 40 countries; Paperly, which offers a line of custom stationery and other personalized products; My Secret Kitchen, a U.K.-based seller of gourmet food products; and Uppercase Living, which offers an extensive line of customizable vinyl expressions for display on walls in the home. In addition, CVSL and Golden Girls, a purchaser of gold and tradable jewelry, have signed a definitive purchase agreement, which is subject to customary closing conditions.
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