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Article: Rising Popularity of Sea Salt Brings SaltWorks Record Growth.
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- PR Newswire
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- September 22, 2009
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SEATTLE, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- There is one industry the recession hasn't hurt: gourmet salt. In fact, natural gourmet sea salt is in such high demand, SaltWorks Inc. (http://www.seasalt.com/) has just doubled the size of its warehouse and factory -- from 35,000 square feet to 70,000.
What's driving the company's growth at a time when economic recovery is moving slowly at best? SaltWorks founder and president Mark Zoske attributes his company's record-breaking year -- sales for 2009 are already higher than in years past by a healthy margin -- to two factors: consumer demand and newly expanded manufacturing capacity.
"Most natural and gourmet food ...