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Specialty food industry sales hit record high in 2015

Retail specialty food sales grew to $94 billion in 2015, a 19.7% jump since 2013, driven by product innovations and wider availability of specialty foods through mass-market outlets.
April 21, 2016
The specialty food industry continues to be a bright spot in the U.S. economy, and is now a $120.5 billion dollar industry, according to a new report by the Specialty Food Association.
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Akro Mils warehouse

Akro-Mils opens new warehouse

The new facility is projected to transform Akro-Mils’ plastic storage products production and distribution.
April 20, 2016
Akro-Mils, an Akron, Ohio-based provider of storage, organization and transport products, opened a new warehouse facility in Wadsworth, Ohio.
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Nestle simple ingredients

Nestlé’s ice cream brands move to simpler ingredients

With a focus on simplifying ingredient lists, the newest changes vary across more than 100 products with the removal of artificial colors and flavors, high-fructose corn syrup and GMO ingredients, among others.
April 20, 2016
Nestlé Dreyer’s Ice Cream, Oakland, Calif., announced key ingredient improvements to its Edy’s, Häagen-Dazs, Outshine, Skinny Cow, Nestlé Ice Cream and Nestlé Drumstick brands.
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Ship & Shore Environmental expands alliance with flexible packaging machinery provider

Webconvert will continue to serve as a local liaison between Ship & Shore and Canadian manufacturers to provide a Canadian perspective on the market and pollution control regulations.
April 20, 2016
Ship & Shore Environmental, Inc., a Signal Hill, Calif.-based provider of global pollution abatement services, expanded its existing alliance with Webconvert, a Canada-based provider of flexible packaging machinery that will act as an agent/manufacturer's representative for certain product lines, including pollution control.
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Nordic Logistics doubles capacity of cold storage, blast freezing facility

The added space will bring the company's total Savannah frozen and chilled storage capacity to 50,000 tons of cargo and double the current blast capacity.
April 20, 2016
Nordic Logistics and Warehousing, an Atlanta-based member of AGRO Merchants Group, Alpharetta, Ga., doubled the capacity of its Savannah, Ga., location by adding a new 200,000-square-foot cold storage and blast freezing facility to the existing site.
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