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Looking to capture those consumers trading down from casual restaurants, Burger King Corp., Miami, is testing more than 45 new menu items that can be prepared by a new, more flexible broiler cooker.

Citing heightened consumer interest in value-priced options, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Bentonville, Ark., re-launched its Great Value private label line.

Frozen vegetable giant Birds Eye Foods, Rochester, N.Y., said it hired Matthew Park as chief marketing officer.

Inland Cold Storage (ICS), Riverside, Calif., said it opened its sixth facility, a 4.5 million-cubic-foot frozen warehouse at the Port of Stockton in Stockton, Calif.

Hot Stuff Foods, Sioux Falls, S.D., said board member Jim Ilaria has become interim CEO following the resignation last month of John Fontana, who resigned to pursue other interests.

While some businesses are cutting back operations and personnel, one that isn't is Pace Dairy, a 35-year-old cheese processor in Rochester, Minn.

United States Cold Storage, Voorhees, N.J., said it hired two executives to represent the company in core growth markets.

Having already rejected one offer, meat industry media reported that Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, rejected a second, larger $60 million offer for its Farmerville, La., poultry plant from Foster Farms.

A private equity group in Jericho, N.Y., is looking to invest in the founder- or family-owned food industry companies with $5 million to $100 million in annual sales.

Hanson Logistics, St. Joseph, Mich., said it expects by this July to complete $2 million in improvements -- the first of a two-phase enhancement project -- at the company's Hartford, Mich., warehouse.