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The Tip is 'Before you click' Our goal is to help you find the Made in the USA products that you're looking for. We have two ways to directly and efficiently connect you with Made in America products: Links to Retailers You will be directed to stores and products made in the USA. If you can't find the specific made In USA item you're searching for on the results page, try refining your search using the retailers search function. We strive to ensure these links connect you to retailers offering a variety of proudly made USA products however, we do not guarantee the accuracy of these links or the Made In USA search function at that destination. Links to Manufacturers We also directly connect you to manufacturers of made in US products. Some of these do not offer an online store but do provide information for authorized retailers of their products. We aim to connect you with manufacturers that make at least one USA made product. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of these companies or the advertising of these manufacturers but do try to ensure that products found through our site are those proudly made in America. We have verified the made in America claim for companies listed on www.madeinamericasecrets.com by examining their website, history, and when possible their products. We have thousands of Made in America products ranging from all types of American Clothing including fabric made in the USA to American made bicycles. Buying Tip Continued - Read more on Made in America Products by Mr Kooks To create an awareness to the American Palate about the rich and diverse INDIAN FLAVOR. Vision To make INDIAN FOOD in the U.S. market as popular as any other ethnic cuisine. Our Story We have been blending spices in India since 1912 and supplying world over. U.S. was the only market that we could not enter but were monitoring this market. As the trend of spice consumption started changing in the year 1995 and Americans started to consume more and more spices, we decided to open up the U.S. market. After a thorough research and survey of over 3 years spreaded across the entire country, visiting lots and lots of retail chains ? American and Indian, we came to the conclusion of starting with Indian Sauces. We saw the availability of all ingredients in the United States except for spices and so we took our first major decision and that was to import the spices from India and get the products co-packed for us in the United States. We want to support the country where we live in and at the same time keeping our products authentic. We first started sampling our products with Indian grocery stores in the California to ensure that the Indian community liked it and did that for 12 months, personally doing demo's, keeping our kids at day cares and baby sitters to ensure we have first hand experience of the consumer. Then came time to take the second most important decision. We decided to concentrate only with the main stream American Retail market as that was the real challenge and mission for us and till date we do not sell our products at any single Indian grocer, restaurants or wholesaler in the country. We thought that it would be important to concentrate with the mainstream market rather than have foot in both the markets. We first started selling with Ralphs in California and that is the time tragedy hit us. The first months the products were being placed and Southern California retailers went through a major strike, we had spent a lot of money to promote our product during that time and all went down the drain, it took almost 12 months for the market to come back to normalcy. It delayed our plans by a year. But then slowly and steadily gaining confidence we started expanding first within California. It has been a slow process to cross the greatest hurdle we face and that was to break the myth of INDIAN FOOD IS SPICY and we are still educating our customers for this. We always joke we had to learn to drive on the left side of the road (India is right side) and so it was rebirth from scratch and it was back to school. Today Mr. Kook's Natural Products are available in over 2000 main stream retail outlets (not a single Indian outlet) and the curries, sauces and marinades are manufactured in the U.S. Our Frozen Tandoori Nan and Frozen Vegetable Samosas are being imported from India as these products were not possible to be done in the U.S. due to the labor process. Our products are all NATURAL and we use the finest ingredient to ensure the true authenticity of INDIAN FLAVOR. |
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