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Contract frozen vegetable processor Seneca Foods Corporation, Marion, N.Y., said it purchased the assets of Unilink, LLC from Pennsylvania Food Group, LLC and has purchased Lebanon Valley Cold Storage, LP.

Directors for Mexico's Sigma Alimentos (Sigma) and Bar-S Foods Co. (Bar-S) said today that they agreed to merge Sigma’s U.S. business and Bar-S, a Phoenix-based meat processor.

Sara Lee Corp.'s board of directors today announced that Chairman & CEO Brenda Barnes, who has been on medical leave since May 14, will step down permanently.

U.S. Foodservice, Rosemont, Ill., said it expects by July 2011 to complete a $33 million expansion at its Central Florida food distribution center in Port Orange, Fla.

Bumble Bee Foods LLC, San Diego, said it agreed to sell a former sardine processing plant in Prospect Harbor, Me., to mail order foods supplier Live Lobster Co. Inc.

Refrigerated Kefir processor Lifeway Foods, Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., said it added three chain stores to its distribution channel during the first half of July.

You scream. I scream. This summer finds more Hoosiers screaming for ice cream from Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham, Texas.

Swiss Valley Farms Cooperative, Davenport, Iowa, announced an acquisition as well as a joint venture manufacturing company.

The Frozen Food Foundation and the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP), said they presented Dr. Linda J. Harris of the University of California, Davis, with an inaugural "Frozen Food Foundation Freezing Research Award."

Global material handling equipment supplier Dematic, Luxembourg, said it agreed to purchase North American competitor HK Systems Inc., New Berlin, Wis.