It’s conquered the Island and now it’s made a big inroad into the US market.

Island Abbey Foods Ltd™, specialty honey manufacturer, have announced that their world’s first pure dried honey cube, the Honibe™ Honey Drop™ hot beverage sweetener, will now be available in all 170 Hannaford Supermarkets in the Northeastern United States and 105 Sweetbay Supermarkets throughout Florida. Hannaford and Sweetbay locations offer consumers a first-class shopping experience through outstanding value, quality and the variety of foods available on the shelf. Sweetbay and Hannafords will carry two flavors of the Honey Drop™: Pure Honey, and Honey with Lemon.  

“To now have our Honibe™ Honey Drops™ available in all Sweetbay and Hannaford locations is tremendous for our company,” stated John Rowe, president of Island Abbey Foods Ltd™.  

“These locations are ideal for our 100 per cent pure dried Honey Drops™ as these grocers pride themselves on offering the most vibrant, exciting and diverse foods within their markets. Our Honey Drops™ are the first of their kind in the world and to offer them on Sweetbay’s and Hannaford’s shelves is the perfect fit as their customer base is constantly looking for new food innovations.”

The Honibe™ brand has received major international recognition in recent months with the Honey Drop™, named as the Global SIAL d’Or Winner 2010 for the best new food product in the world. The Honey Drop™ was also named as the best new product in the ‘Grocery Sweet 2010’ and best of Canada ‘Country Award 2010’ categories.  Honibe™ was recently featured on one of Canada’s most popular television shows, CBC’s Dragons’ Den, where entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to savvy business investors.

Island Abbey Foods Ltd. is a specialty honey producer based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is a sixth generation PEI agricultural family business. Honibe™ (hon-ee-bee) brand honey is a line of natural, specialty honey from PEI.  The Honibe™ brand offers innovative products like the Honey Drop™, the world’s first 100 per cent pure, non-sticky honey and a better tasting sugar cube. Other products include Honey Lozenges™ with added Eucalyptus and Menthol for sore throats; Honey Delights™ - Pure honey candy; and Honey Sprinkles™ - honey granules for baking and sweetening tea or coffee.