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Less was definitely more at restaurants last year.

Last year, food and beverage processors introduced nearly 50,000 new products out of a total 122,743 new UPC offerings in U.S. grocery, drug and mass merchandise stores.

Schwan’s Consumer Brands North America Inc., Bloomington, Minn., said it appointed Travis Bautz as vice president in charge of a newly formed Product Innovation team.

Safeway Inc.’s O Organics Four Cheese Stone Baked Pizza was named one of just 16 new retail products honored as “Products of the Year.

Several refrigerated and frozen products earned recognition in BrandSpark International’s first U.S. “Best New Product Awards” (BNPA) survey.

Lifeway Foods Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., said it purchased rival Kefir processor Fresh Made Inc.

Tyson Foods Inc. expects this summer to complete as much as $17 million in capital improvements to boost production at its Cherokee, Iowa, deli meats plant.

Supply chain services provider Nordic Cold Storage LLC, Atlanta, said it completed an addition (10,000 pallet positions) at its Rockmart, Ga., location.

Kraft Foods' U.S. Convenient Meals sector -- home to DiGiorno frozen pizza and Oscar Mayer meats -- was a bright spot in an otherwise challenging fourth quarter.

Stellar, a Jacksonville, Fla., design, engineering, construction and mechanical services firm, said it expects by August to build a $11 million refrigerated distribution center for Southern Cold Storage.