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Refrigerated and frozen food industry executive Dan Scales joined Reilly Partners, a Chicago executive search firm, as a managing director.

The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, owner and producer of the PACK EXPO trade shows, said  that with more than 26,000 attendees, 1,559 exhibitors and nearly 630,000 net square feet, PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2011 (Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 26-28) broke its event records on these and several other counts.

Request Foods said it has begun processing and co-packing frozen skillet meal products now that a second, 230,000-sq.-ft. plant, the company's second location in Holland, Mich., is operational.

Hormel Foods Corporation, Austin, Minn., said Robert A. Tegt, group vice president at Hormel Foods and president of Jennie-O Turkey Store Inc., will retire effective Dec., 31, 2011.

Chelsea, Mass., soup processor grows, balances automation with artisan culinary craft.

Distributing giant U.S. Foodservice, Rosemont, Ill., said it changed its name and brand marketing to US Foods.

Private label foods giant Ralcorp Holdings, Inc., St. Louis, said its Board of Directors met and considered an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from ConAgra Foods to acquire Ralcorp.

Turkey processor Butterball, LLC, Garner, N.C., said it will close its Longmont, Colo. facility, effective December 31, 2011.

ConAgra Foods, Omaha, Neb., reiterated its $94 per share, all-cash proposal to acquire Ralcorp Holdings, Inc., a private label products company and a leader in frozen bakery foods.

Campbell Soup and Pepperidge Farm executives broke ground on a 34,000-square-foot innovation center in a ceremony at Pepperidge Farm’s headquarters in Norwalk, Conn.