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BrightFarms Greenhouse

BrightFarms to build 3 sustainable greenhouse farms

The greenhouses will each produce more than 2 million pounds of fresh, leafy salad greens and herbs per year while using an estimated 80% less water, 90% less land and 95% less shipping fuel than West Coast farms.
February 26, 2019
BrightFarms, Irvington, N.Y., announced plans to build new sustainable greenhouse farms in Central Mass., Hudson Valley, N.Y., and North Carolina.
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Walmart acquires Aspectiva

Aspectiva will join Walmart’s Store N° 8, the incubation arm launched in 2017.
February 26, 2019
Walmart, Bentonville, Ark., acquired Aspectiva, an Israel-based provider of machine learning techniques and natural language processing capabilities, to further enhance the end-to-end shopping experience.
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The Chefs' Warehouse acquires Bassian Farms

Bassian Farms supplies Northern California’s restaurants with high-quality beef, poultry, pork and seafood products.
February 26, 2019
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc., Ridgefield, Conn., acquired Bassian Farms, Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based specialty protein manufacturer and distributor.
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JBS S.A.’s Friboi division upgrades analysis laboratories

This increase follows a 2-year $5 million investment in refurbishment, personnel training, construction and equipment at the company’s laboratories.
February 26, 2019
Friboi, the Brazil-based division of JBS S.A., Brazil, increased the average number of monthly laboratory analysis by 19.7% in 2018 to 63.3 thousand to drive ongoing development of its internal food quality and safety standards.
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Study: Chilled, deli foods market worth $267.7B by 2025

The pre-packaged products segment was valued at $40.54 billion in 2017, and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 5.8% over the forecast period.
February 26, 2019
The global chilled and deli foods market is likely to reach $267.70 billion by 2025, exhibiting a CAGR of 5.2% during the forecast period, according to a report by Grand View Research, Inc., San Francisco.
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sustainability farm

General Mills, McDonald’s, Cargill and more form Ecosystem Services Market Consortium to promote land stewardship

This program enables and encourages farmers and ranchers to adopt and sustain conservation management practices to improve soil health, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve related water quality and reduce water use.
February 26, 2019
Ten private-sector companies and non-profit organizations announced their intent to form the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium (ESMC) to promote land stewardship to build healthy soils, soil carbon sequestration and water conservation on the globe’s working lands.
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Haul Street SaaS solution

UTXL launches logistics software solutions company

Future product plans include leveraging advanced analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) data, machine learning, statistical learning, voice recognition and mobile applications to improve network utilization, reduce waste and provide real-time shipment visibility.
February 26, 2019
UTXL, Inc., Kansas City, Mo., launched Haul Street Inc., a new Indianapolis, Ind.-based cloud-based software company featuring VuTrans in-transit shipment visibility tools.
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