Articles Tagged with ''refrigerated meats''

An affiliate of New Water Capital Partners L.P., a Boca Raton, Fla.-based private equity investment firm, acquired Custom Made Meals, a Denver, Colo.-based manufacturer of fresh, oven-ready, value-added entrées and appetizers sold in more than 6,000 retail grocery locations nationwide.

JBS USA, Greeley, Colo., announced a definitive share purchase agreement with Danish Crown A/S, Denmark, to acquire Plumrose USA, a Downers Grove, Ill.-based bacon, ham and deli meat business, for $230 million.

West Liberty Foods, LLC, a West Liberty, Iowa-based private label manufacturer and foodservice supplier, announced that the assets to be acquired from Crystal Lake Farms and Free Ranger will operate under the name Liberty Free Range Poultry, L.L.C.

The Lone Grazer Creamery, Minneapolis, is closing its doors after just 2.5 years of business.

Ben E. Keith Co., Fort Worth, Texas, purchased 89 acres in Selma, Texas, to build a new distribution center.

Earlier this month, two products produced under the Dietz & Watson label by cheesemaker Deutsch Kase Haus, Middlebury, Ind., were voluntarily recalled because they may have contained Listeria monocytogenes.

After years of increasing prices in a volume-challenged marketplace, deflation is profoundly changing the meat purchase yet again, according to a study released by The Food Marketing Institute (FMI), Arlington, Va., and the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), Washington, D.C.