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The Opus Group, Minnetonka, Minn., completed a 1.6 million-square-foot distribution center for ConAgra Foods' Frankfort, Ind., facility.

WhiteWave Foods, Denver, Colo., acquired Wallaby Yogurt Co., Inc., American Canyon, Calif., for approximately $125 million in cash.

Plug Power Inc., Latham, N.Y., acquired HyPulsion, a European joint venture created by Plug Power and Axane, S.A., a subsidiary of Air Liquide S.A.

Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (TIEM), Irvine, Calif., announced a new $16 million expansion and building renovation at its forklift manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ind.

Chicago-based JBT Corp. acquired the remaining shares of Stork Food & Dairy Systems B.V.

Performance Food Group, Inc. (PFG), Richmond, Va., announced plans to expand its Performance Foodservice ? Milton’s food distribution facility in Oakwood, Ga.

PaperWorks Industries, Inc., Bala Cynwyd, Pa., announced plans to optimize folding carton production across its network of nine North American converting facilities.

G.N. Johnston Equipment Co. Ltd., a Canada-based sales and service center of The Raymond Corp., Greene, N.Y., acquired the assets of The Econo-Rack Group Inc.

Packaged foods company Nomad Foods Ltd., London, entered into an option agreement with LionGem Sweden 1 AB to acquire Sweden-based Findus Sverige AB and its subsidiaries.

J&J Family of Farms, Loxahatchee, Fla., and Thomas Produce Co., Boca Raton, Fla., entered into a strategic relationship that will combine their respective farm production to make available high-quality produce from approximately 14,000 acres of farmed land in the United States and Mexico.