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1 <br />vx <br />3 <br />1.� <br />: :'l •ti <br />Mr., <br />r l" <br />ti • ,jm <br />` <br />�r <br />N... 4 <br />! <br />`i <br />Chapel <br />Hill Herald <br />June 3, <br />1991 <br />Page 1 <br />of 2 <br />Simply Delicious President <br />Total said, citing Simply Deli- <br />Born and raised in Durham, <br />CEDAR GROVE Move <br />John Troy, also known as <br />cious' all- natural ingredients, <br />Troy entered the business <br />.— <br />Ward Baldour, struck a deal <br />fresh flavorings: packaging <br />world while in his 20s when <br />over, Paul­--Newman, and <br />for Wizard Bal- <br />.• <br />at the expo with an importer <br />and even the recycled -paper <br />he started a stereo company. <br />make room <br />from England to distribute his <br />label. <br />After some success, he let[ the <br />dour. <br />Most people have probably <br />a <br />ed <br />company <br />'L <br />heard about the salad dressing <br />Kingdom dom and Europe. Deals <br />b p <br />with a Canadian importer and <br />Wizard's aldron Ltd.ainha <br />building in front of Troy's <br />neylnofsintros to,tind <br />y p <br />out what it was all about" in <br />�, �, Mme., 1T ?•'.;..; �.,.,. <br />I M 1-7 T clou <br />°i .t "; "! I Via• ^•`ty : ��_'. ".'c�..'f:'j �.::y + {•r...�c., ' <br />.5a. ,,,� • ljj{ a•n. {�••�)n ♦ x �j�rl .. .tt +�:�,,R,. .t1. '..,! �. y ��'� 1 •I4F 1�' ?� :,>.�:. -. <br />�'� ' <br />,, "tj �' Y' �.�4..: '���.; Herr ;';i:�Fi�i; , �r•zi.��{ i <br />l . <br />Tne Gwµ-� Wtl Mrrukl /Muald Muar� <br />John Troy, alias Wizard Baldour, and his 'un- dressings' are stiff competition for Newman's Own <br />'Wizard's lun-dressmg ' makes splash <br />Simply Delicious salad toppings capture European market <br />By BLAKE DICKINSON <br />sition. <br />niche along so many lines," <br />thing simple." <br />Tne Chapel Mdl Maid <br />Simply Delicious President <br />Total said, citing Simply Deli- <br />Born and raised in Durham, <br />CEDAR GROVE Move <br />John Troy, also known as <br />cious' all- natural ingredients, <br />Troy entered the business <br />.— <br />Ward Baldour, struck a deal <br />fresh flavorings: packaging <br />world while in his 20s when <br />over, Paul­--Newman, and <br />for Wizard Bal- <br />.• <br />at the expo with an importer <br />and even the recycled -paper <br />he started a stereo company. <br />make room <br />from England to distribute his <br />label. <br />After some success, he let[ the <br />dour. <br />Most people have probably <br />a <br />ed <br />company <br />ction. <br />heard about the salad dressing <br />Kingdom dom and Europe. Deals <br />b p <br />with a Canadian importer and <br />Wizard's aldron Ltd.ainha <br />building in front of Troy's <br />neylnofsintros to,tind <br />y p <br />out what it was all about" in <br />concocted by the blue -eyed <br />distributor and the Safeway <br />trailer in October 1989. He <br />his late 20s and early 30s. <br />movie actor. But what about <br />the Simply Delicious dressings <br />Canada supermarket chain <br />said work will begin in a few <br />"I was an overaged hippie, <br />'Troy <br />followed. <br />days to double the size of the <br />so to speak," said. He de- <br />nade at The Wizard's Caldron <br />"I cannot express in signifi- <br />2,000 - square -foot plant, which <br />pounced materialism and <br />plant in Cedar Grove? <br />cant enough terms the impact <br />also makes a line of soy sauc- <br />studied different religions as <br />Already sold in Harris Tee- <br />they've had on this market," <br />es and Wizard products. <br />did many young people in the <br />ter Stores across the South- <br />said Ruben Total, the state <br />"It's going real well," Troy <br />late '60s and early '70s. "In <br />east, and in supermarket <br />chains and'specialty stores in <br />Department of Agriculture's <br />said of his recent successes. <br />the process, I became a veg- <br />the Northeast, California and <br />international trade specialist. <br />After grossing, about $250,000 <br />etarian, as a lot of people did <br />the Southwest, the line of six <br />"It was just phenomenal to <br />in 1990, he said he expects at <br />in that period." <br />dressings made an interna- <br />see the people and their reac- <br />least $1 million in sales this <br />"R's <br />That's also about the time <br />tiou it splash in April at Lon- <br />tions. <br />"Their <br />year. making sense, it's <br />don's International Food Expo- <br />product gilled a <br />profitable. I'm keeping every- <br />