MegaMex Foods LLC, a joint venture between Hormel Foods Corporation and Herdez Del Fuerte, S.A. de C.V., said it agreed to purchase refrigerated and frozen Mexican foods processor Don Miguel Foods Corp.
Directors for Mexico's Sigma Alimentos (Sigma) and Bar-S Foods Co. (Bar-S) said today that they agreed to merge Sigma’s U.S. business and Bar-S, a Phoenix-based meat processor.
Private equity investor Revelry Brands, Boulder, Colo., said has funded its second investment into Phil's Fresh Foods LLC, a Boulder producer of EVOL Burritos (EVOL).
The expanding appetite for Latino cuisine among non-Hispanic Americans -- combined with the rapid increase in the United States' Hispanic population -- will be a boon for the $7 billion market.
Kayem Foods Inc., Chelsea,
Mass., isn't chicken about flavorful new products. The latest addition
to its al fresco chicken sausage line is Chipotle Chorizo with Mango.
Frozen Mexican foods leader Ruiz Foods, Dinuba, Calif., launched a national retail consumer promotion featuring NASCAR driver Ryan Newman, who is sponsored by Ruiz's hand-held frozen snacks brand, Tornados.
The Raleigh/Durham, N.C., Triangle Business Journal reported that Reser’s Fine Foods, Beaverton, Ore., will begin a three-phase, $15 million expansion at its Halifax County, N.C., plant.
With an expanding ethnic population calling the United States "home," a new report from Chicago researcher Mintel shows sales of ethnic foods have climbed steadily since 2004.