Canadian meat and bakery foods giant Maple Leaf Foods, Toronto, plans to build new meat processing plants and bakeries -- while it closes other facilities.
Let them eat cake. Actually, that's just what Michel De France,
Ontario, Calif., was planning when it developed three new flavors of
frozen, heat-and-serve Parisian Cakes for retail and foodservice
channels.
Henningsen Cold Storage Co., Hillsboro, Ore., said its Chairman and President Michael Henningsen Jr. was elected to the board of directors for the American Institute of Baking, Manhattan, Kan.
The Tri-City (Wash.) Herald reported that ConAgra Foods' Lamb-Weston business plans on May 30 to close its frozen potato processing plant in Prosser, Wash.
CSM Bakery Supplies North America, Schaumburg, Ill., said that in advance of his upcoming retirement, CEO Reinoud Plantenberg will transfer his responsibilities to Bret Weaver effective May 1, 2010.
Diversified bakery, meat and prepared foods giant Sara Lee Corp., Downers Grove, Ill., said it hired Marcel H.M. Smits as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective Oct. 1.