Consumer foods giants General Mills Inc., Minneapolis, and Nestle USA, Glendale, Calif., are among the top 50 "Best Places to Launch a Career," according to BusinessWeek.
Frozen food industry executives Jeff Varcoe, The Schwan Food Company, and Ron Pillsbury, McCain Foods USA, were elected as directors at the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI).
Canadian dairy giant Saputo inc., Montreal., said it received a copy of an unsolicited below market "mini-tender" offer made by TRC Capital Corporation (TRC), Edmonton, Alberta, to purchase up to 3,000,000 common shares of Saputo.
Global food processing equipment and energy services supplier GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, Bochum, Germany, said its GEA Refrigeration division has combined three process freezing and chilling equipment businesses into a new group.
Agropur, a Canadian dairy cooperative, said its Schroeder Company subsidiary in Maplewood, Minn., purchased Farmland Dairies' UHT milk processing plant in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Mich., officially dedicated an expansion at its W.K. Kellogg Institute for Food and Nutrition Research, Kellogg's global product development, research and innovation facility.
The changing economy has spurred many consumers to change their spending habits with more than half of consumers saying they are buying less in the deli and prepared food areas.
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