Published 8:44 am Friday, August 21, 2026 VALDOSTA — Marking a major milestone for regional culinary infrastructure and consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturing, the Southern Georgia Black Chambers (SGBC) officially hosted the grand ribbon-cutting ceremony and product launch for Chef Acree’s Heavenly Spice Blend Seasoning, LLC on Saturday, Aug. 15. Held inside the Cox Hall Conference Center at Wiregrass Technical College, the high-profile ceremony celebrated the market expansion of CEO and founder Chef Tammy Acree, who officially unveiled her proprietary seasoning product line alongside her newly published Heavenly Creations Cookbook. The gathering brought together regional enterprise leaders, civic advocates, culinary students, and community supporters to solidify Chef Acree’s enterprise as an invaluable community asset across South Georgia’s 18-county footprint. Moving beyond traditional ceremonial milestones, the expansion represents a concrete leap in local manufacturing and technical capability, the SGBC said in a press release. As one of only three African American woman-owned seasoning manufacturers in South Georgia, Chef Acree has vertically integrated her business model to combine culinary education, commercial catering, personal chef services, and retail CPG manufacturing under a single corporate umbrella. “Today is not simply the opening of a business; it is a celebration of promise fulfilled, prayers answered, and generations of perseverance coming together in…
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