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Dorner Mfg. Corp. has introduced the FIT Program, which is a customer support program that is designed to increase production output and reduce overall costs.

With convenience topping its many attributes, frozen food rang up nearly $52 billion in U.S. retail sales through all channels in 2008, according to Packaged Facts.

Consumers' new home-centric behaviors are creating new opportunities for consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers, according to Krista Faron, senior analyst for Mintel International Group LLC, Chicago.

What are you doing? Or perhaps the better question is, "What is Kraft Foods doing?" This key Twitter phrase (What are you doing?) is certainly appropriate.

Public refrigerated warehouse operator Everest Cold Storage, Toronto, opened its second temperature-controlled facility, a 4.5 million cubic foot site, in Dorval, Quebec.

Foodservice product sales were strong in 2008 and helped contribute both sales and profit to the nation's convenience store operators.

While many markets struggle with the sluggish economy, others thrive.

TMCI Holdings, Secaucus, N.J., said it hired consumer packaged goods veteran David Yale as president and CEO for its two operating subsidiaries.

Multi-temp storage and logistics services provider Weber Distribution LLC, Santa Fe Springs, Calif., said it will distribute refrigerated organic products (undisclosed) nationwide under terms of a new agreement.

Unilever United States Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., said it expects by mid-2010 to close a Breyers ice cream plant in Framingham, Mass.