Cost-cutting, cold storage construction trends and technologies are a major focus of the 30th Annual International Association for Cold Storage and Construction (IACSC) Conference and Expo, Nov. 4-7, 2010.
The Haskell Company, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based design-build firm, said it strengthened its food and beverage industry capabilities with the purchase of E²M, an Atlanta-based manufacturing system integration firm.
The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press reported that France's Sodima dairy, owner of the Yoplait brand, notified General Mills that it intends in 2012 to terminate a license agreement that intends in 2012 to terminate a license agreement that has given General Mills exclusive U.S. sales rights since 1977.
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.
International Refrigerated Transportation Association (IRTA) members re-elected Andy Janson, president of Hanson Logistics, as IRTA's 2010-2011 chairman of IRTA.
Having started with Northfield freezing in 1985, Bud Martinson is now back in Northfield's original building -- as director of sales for spiral freezing systems supplier NTFE America.