Just a few months after selling a western regional yogurt brand to General Mills, dairy giant Dean Foods, Dallas, agreed to sell its private label yogurt business and several plants.
Ricotta and mozzarella cheese processor Miceli Dairy Products expects by mid-2012 to complete the first phase of a $16 million to $20 million expansion to its Cleveland plant.
The Modesto (Calif.) Bee reported that Modesto-based Foster Farms agreed to buy two ice cream plants in Sacramento, Calif.; and Salem, Ore., from Matterhorn Group Inc.
Diversified foods giant General Mills, Minneapolis, said it improved the health profile of products comprising 25 percent of its U.S. retail sales during fiscal 2010.
Dairy foods giant Dean Foods Company, Dallas, said it promoted Shaun Mara to chief financial officer effective Dec. 1, upon the resignation of Jack Callahan.
MegaMex Foods LLC, a Chino, Calif., joint venture between Hormel Foods Corporation and Herdez Del Fuerte, S.A. de C.V., said it completed buying all stock of Don Miguel.