Cheese, appetizer and ingredients processor Sargento Foods Inc., Plymouth, Wis., said it promoted Louie Gentine to president and chief customer officer.
Canadian dairy cooperative Agropur, Longueuil, Quebec, said its U.S. subsidiary,Trega Foods, purchased Green Meadows Foods, a cheese processor in Hull, Iowa.
John Morrell & Co.,
Cincinnati, says Kretschmar Deli, a brand long associated with premium
deli meat products, now stands for new line of specialty cheeses, all
made by Wisconsin Master Cheesemakers.
Seltzer Companies CEO Richard Hazel announced that Carlsbad, Calif., suppliers Seltzer Nutritional Technologies and Seltzer Ingredients -- supplier of nutritional ingredients, colors and micronutrients -- have been combined and renamed as Glanbia Nutritionals Inc.
Canadian dairy giant Saputo inc., Montreal., said it received a copy of an unsolicited below market "mini-tender" offer made by TRC Capital Corporation (TRC), Edmonton, Alberta, to purchase up to 3,000,000 common shares of Saputo.
BC-USA Inc., New Holland, Pa., said it has eliminated artificial flavors, colors and preservatives and that its Alouette brand is the nation's first spreadable cheese that is 100 percent all-natural.
Lactalis Foodservice, Buffalo, N.Y., said it expects by late 2010 to complete an undisclosed expansion at the company's Nampa, Idaho, cheese processing plant.