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Fruit and Chocolate

Cool Fruit Sensations is a new local juice venture making a splash. Elmer's, makers of Heavenly Hash and Gold Brick, is New Orleans' Easter favorite and one of the oldest candy companies in the U.S.

Don Harding, co-founder of Cool Fruit Sensations, credits his wife with the big idea that launched them to sudden success. Rob Nelson, President of Elmer's Chocolate, carries on the tradition of being the oldest family-owned chocolate company in the country and Pontchatoula's biggest employer.

Peter Ricchiuti is the finance professor you wish you had back in college! His insight and humor have twice made him the top professor at Tulane University's A.B. Freeman School of Business. After a successful career on Wall Street, Ricchiuti served for five years as Assistant State Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer for the State of Louisiana. There he skillfully managed the State's $3 billion investment portfolio.