Global food equipment and energy technologies supplier GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, Bochum, Germany, said it expects by mid 2011 to purchase Convenience Food Systems (CFS).
A day after its general announcement, frozen seafood processor High Liner Foods Incorporated, Lunenburg, N.S., said it has plans to acquire Viking Seafoods, Inc.
Frozen seafood processor High Liner Foods Incorporated, Lunenburg, NS, said it agreed to purchase an undisclosed "value-added foodservices company based in North America with annual revenues of approximately CDN$40 million."
DHL Global Forwarding, Plantation, Fla., said it will join Interstate Transport, Inc. and Trans World Forwarding Inc. (TWF) to offer "a complete perishable supply chain solution starting from the point of consolidation at origin across Latin America to destinations across North America."
Venture capital investor Bradmer Foods, Baltimore, said it made a "follow-on" investment in Blue Horizon Wild, an Aptos, Calif., frozen seafood processor.
Blount Fine Foods, a processor of refrigerated and frozen soups and seafood products, said that a plant expansion underway at its Fall River, Mass., headquarters now will include a 100kW solar electric system.
A leading supplier of foodservice equipment, The Middleby Corp., Elgin, Ill., said it purchased the food processing equipment of Cozzini Inc., Chicago.
Refrigerated and frozen soup and seafood processor Blount Fine Foods, Fall River, Mass., said it promoted Robert Sewall to executive vice president of sales and marketing.
Pork and turkey processing giant Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., said Richard J. M. Poulson, executive vice president, will retire from Smithfield effective September 1, 2010.