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Study reveals Top 3 food safety training challenges

Survey responses indicate that companies are highly committed to building strong food safety cultures.

December 6, 2017

Alchemy Systems, Austin, Texas, released the results of its fifth annual Global Food Safety Training Survey.

Columbus Craft Meats brings artisan approach to ‘craft’ meats

Columbus Craft Meats was named a Processor to Watch in 2018.

Marina Mayer

December 6, 2017

The company’s success and longevity can be tied to its laser focus on delivering premium craft meats using the same uncompromising artisan methods that started the company.

On-Cor’s brand refresh modernizes heat-and-serve category

On-Cor Frozen Foods was named a Processor to Watch in 2018.

Marina Mayer

December 6, 2017

When On-Cor Frozen Foods, LLC was founded in 1946, its mission was simple—offer quality food that everyone loves. Today, the Aurora, Ill.-based company offers a variety of frozen multi-serve entrées and frozen, fully-cooked protein products to retail grocers nationwide.

Land O’Lakes acquires Philia Foods

The acquisition of Philia Foods supports the company’s dairy innovation strategy and provides an opportunity to deepen its innovation pipeline through smaller-brand incubation.

December 5, 2017

Land O’Lakes, Inc., Arden Hills, Mich., acquired substantially all of the assets of Philia Foods, a Minneapolis-based processor of spreadable feta cheese.

National Restaurant Association releases annual chef predictions for 2018

Local, vegetable-forward and ethnic-inspired menu items will reign supreme in the 2018.

December 5, 2017

The National Restaurant Association (NRA), Washington, D.C., released its annual survey of 700 professional chefs – members of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), St. Augustine, Fla., – to predict food and beverage trends at restaurants in the coming year.

Americold opens new temperature-controlled facility in Clearfield, UT

Together with its neighboring Salt Lake City facility, Americold’s Clearfield footprint significantly extends the company’s market leadership in northern Utah to greater than 50% of total temperature-controlled warehouse capacity.

December 5, 2017

Americold, Atlanta, officially opened the new addition to its Clearfield, Utah, campus.

Kraft Heinz releases corporate social responsibility report

The strategy also builds upon CSR goals and policies aimed at eliminating global hunger and malnutrition, creating a more sustainable supply chain and reducing its environmental footprint, as well as a more recent commitment to raise standards for treatment of broiler chickens in its U.S. supply chain.

December 5, 2017

The Kraft Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., released its inaugural corporate social responsibility (CSR) report.

Global ID acquires Bioagricert

Bioagricert provides organic certification services according to Italian national and international standards, as well as product quality certification services and other certifications.

December 5, 2017

The Global ID Group, a Fairfield, Iowa-based division of Paine Schwartz Partners, LLC, acquired Bioagricert, a leading certification and control body company based in Bologna, Italy.

Mead & Hunt acquires EMR

Together, the two firms’ engineering and construction teams offer turnkey solutions for food safety and production efficiency.

December 5, 2017

Mead & Hunt, a Middleton, Wis.-based architectural engineering firm, acquired EMR, an engineering and construction management firm headquartered in Fenton, Mo.

Munroe Dairy under new ownership

The new ownership group, led by Tracy and Bill Daugherty as managing partners, is purchasing the company and its assets from Rob Armstrong and the Armstrong family.

December 5, 2017

Munroe Dairy, East Providence, R.I., is being sold to a group of local families who are long-term customers and dedicated to continuing the company’s tradition of delivering farm-to-table milk and fresh local products to Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts.