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Refrigerated & Frozen Foods reflects on past Ones to Watch honorees.

The Food Channel, Chicago, said its editorial staff reviewed the past decade's top flavors, biggest foods, food influences and top food stories.

Retail and foodservice supplier Fleischer’s Bagels, Inc., Macedon, N.Y., said it promoted Eric Kestenblatt to the newly created position of senior director-planning/development.

Now that it has exited bankruptcy, chicken processing giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp. plans to eliminate about 230 corporate and administrative positions during the first phase of its integration with Brazilian meat company JBS SA.

Resolved to lose weight in the new year? Consumers Union, Yonkers, N.Y., says the February issue of its Consumer Reports Health magazine reviews of 24 frozen microwaveable diet meals.

Nestlé, Vevey, Switzerland, has agreed to purchase Kraft's frozen pizza business in the United States and Canada, including the DiGiorno, Tombstone, California Pizza Kitchen, Jack’s and Delissio brands.

Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., said it sold two meat processing operations, including one in the United States and the other in China.

Industrial Info Resources (IIR) Sugar Land, Texas, said North American food and beverage processors spent an estimated $26.7 billion for facility projects during 2009.

Kraft Foods Inc., Northfield, Ill., said it will introduce more than 20 new foods and beverages in the first few months of the new year "that boast trendy, restaurant-inspired flavors."

Fresh and frozen seafood processor Santa Monica Seafood, Rancho Dominguez, Calif., said it promoted Logan Kock to vice president of strategic purchasing & responsible sourcing.