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What will the breakthrough new products of next year be? Most likely something recognizable...with a twist.

Citing a desire to concentrate on European sales, Superfos a/s, Taastrup, Denmark, said it agreed to sell its U.S. plastic food packaging business, Superfos Inc.

High Liner Foods Inc., Danvers, Mass., said it promoted Bill DiMento to corporate director of sustainability.

Kemper Foods International, LLC, New Albany, Ind., said it expects by 2012 to more than double the size of its 24,000-square-foot frozen prepared foods plant.

The economic downturn can be blamed for a number of lifestyle changes, but causing Americans to cook more is not one of them, according to The 24th Annual Report on Eating Patterns in America, recently released by The NPD Group, Port Washington, N.Y.

The Top 100 limited-service sandwich chains grew sales by 8.6 percent in 2008, to $20.3 billion.

Organic fresh produce grower and shipper Organic Alliance Inc., Salinas, Calif., announced two personnel appointments.

Packaging equipment supplier Kliklok-Woodman, Decatur, Ga., said its flagship endload cartoner, the CELOX, earned one of the packaging industry’s most coveted awards: the StarPack Gold Award for “packaging machinery of excellence.”

Seltzer Companies CEO Richard Hazel announced that Carlsbad, Calif., suppliers Seltzer Nutritional Technologies and Seltzer Ingredients -- supplier of nutritional ingredients, colors and micronutrients -- have been combined and renamed as Glanbia Nutritionals Inc.

Global ingredient supplier Bunge Ltd., White Plains, N.Y., announced to  promotions effective January 1, 2010.