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Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, announced its first Japan-based research unit for fundamental scientific research.

Industrial cheese, ingredient and sauce supplier Sargento Food Ingredients, Plymouth, Wis., launched the Sargento Idea Center (www.SargentoIdeaCenter.com), a virtual creativity kitchen.

Reser’s Fine Foods officially open its newly completed Customer R&D Center at the company’s Beaverton, Ore., headquarters.

The Haskell Company, a Jacksonville, Fla., design and construction services provider, said it acquired PTS Engineering, an Atlanta-based process engineering firm specializing in the food and beverage industries.

EM-ESS Acquisition LLC -- representing New York businessman Marvin Sussman -- has acquired Chloe Foods Corp., the Brooklyn, N.Y., parent to East Coast deli salads processor Blue Ridge Farms.

Reuters said Tyson Foods' search for a new chief executive officer likely will take several more months.

Wisconsin media say a new company, Jaytina LLC, expects by this October to build a $7 million to $9 million appetizer processing plant in Plover, Wis.

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. honored C.R. England Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah, as Wal-Mart's "2008 Dedicated Grocery Carrier of the Year."

Citing its members' budgetary travel restrictions, Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International, Chandler, Ariz., said it will postpone its annual North American fall conference until next spring.

The Monroe (La.) News-Star said a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved and finalized the $80 million sale of Pilgrim's Pride Corp.'s chicken processing plant in Farmerville, La.