Glen Taylor, owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves basketball team, and other businesses, signed a deal to purchase the former PM Beef plant in Windom, Minn., for an undisclosed sum.
Seaboard Triumph Foods, the Shawnee Mission, Kan.-based joint venture between Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods, LLC, announced plans to construct a new, 750,000-square-foot food processing facility
China pork processor WH Group Ltd. announced that its new American-style packaged meats factory located at Zhengzhou Shuanghui Industrial Park, Henan, is officially in operation.
Tyson Fresh Meats, the Lexington, Neb.-based beef and pork unit of Tyson Foods, Inc., Omaha, Neb., announced plans to cease beef operations at its Denison, Iowa, plant.
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., announced a realignment of its organization and key senior management appointments that unify all of its independent operating companies, brands, marketing and more than 48,000 employees around the world under one corporate umbrella.
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc., a Ridgefield, Conn., distributor of specialty food products, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets and certain equity interests of Del Monte Capitol Meat Co.
Creation Gardens, Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based wholesale food distributor of quality products such as produce, gourmet food, dairy, meats and restaurant staple items, acquired Mattingly Foods, a high-quality meat provider also headquartered in Louisville, Ky.