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To enable foodservice manufacturers to launch more profitable new products, The International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA), Chicago, and Canada-based Stage-Gate International released a report charting four essential best practices in foodservice new product development.

Brookfield Asset Management, Canada, acquired the stock of Millard Refrigerated Services’ Canada operations located in Brampton, Ontario and Calgary, Alberta.

Lineage Logistics, a warehousing and logistics company sponsored by Bay Grove Capital LLC, San Francisco, will begin construction of a new 420,000-square-foot multi-use cold storage warehouse in Colton, Calif.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. opened a new product contamination evaluation facility in Sugar Land, Texas, to help food manufacturers address safety and quality issues.

Cargill, Minneapolis, opened a $40 million chicken processing facility at its complex in Efremov, Russia, located 300 kilometers south of Moscow.

Igloo Cold Storage, Canada, opens a new storage facility exclusively for the fresh produce and frozen foods sector.

Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., continues to accelerate the strategic expansion of its value-added foods portfolio with the acquisition of Circle Foods, LLC, a San Diego, Calif.-based producer of refrigerated and frozen hand-held Mexican foods, uncooked tortillas and Indian flatbreads, from Claridge.

Kontos Foods, Inc. opened a new 45,000-square-foot facility in Paterson, N.J., to manufacture its French-style Traditional and Savory Crepes, the Lite, Elegant Skinny Wrap and several varieties of Kontos Fillo Dough and related Fillo products.

HP Hood, Lynnfield, Mass., invested $84.6 million to increase ultra-high temperature production capacity at its Frederick County, Md., operation.

Effective June 1, ARPAC Food Group, Schiller Park, Ill., officially changed its name to Point Five Packaging, LLC.