Refrigerated and frozen products such as Yoplait yogurt and Green Giant vegetables helped General Mills Inc., Minneapolis, post a 14 percent net sales gain.
To lower interest expenses and overall debt, global shipping and logistics services provider Hf Eimskipafelag Islands, Reykjavik, Iceland, said it expects by the end of 2008 to sell VersaCold Atlas.
Citing feed costs and an oversupply of chicken, Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, said it will lay off 116 workers at the company's Franconia, Pa., plant.
The National Restaurant Association put these and other questions together when it teamed up with the American Culinary Foundation (ACF) to survey more than 1,200 ACF members.
Industry experts say Mediterranean cuisine is popping up more frequently in refrigerated and frozen entrees, snacks and appetizers as well as on foodservice menus nationwide.
Stellar, a Jacksonville, Fla., design-build firm, said it completed a 260,000-square-foot refrigerated and frozen food distribution center in Rocky Hill, Conn., for Burris Logistics.
Diversified frozen food giant Schwan Food Company, Marshall, Minn., said it hired Yvonne La Penotiere as the company's first chief strategy and marketing officer.
The Buffalo (N.Y.) News reported that Rich Products Corp., Buffalo, will use Allied Frozen Storage, West Seneca, N.Y., for northeast storage and distribution.
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