Looking to extend its healthy foods portfolio, Smart Balance Inc., Paramus, N.J., said it purchased Glutino Food Group, for $66.3 million from Claridge, a Montreal investments and holding company.
Refrigerated and frozen all natural soups processor Kettle Cuisine, Chelsea, Mass., entered into a business partnership with Arlon Food and Agriculture Investment Program, New York, N.Y.
Feedstuffs reported that South Korea's Harim Holdings Co. Ltd. won an auction to buy Allen Family Foods Inc., a vertically integrated chicken processor in Seaford, Del.
The National Restaurant Association (NRA) said its 2012 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show -- originally scheduled for May 19-22, 2012 at Chicago’s McCormick Place -- will be held earlier.
Columbus (Ohio) Business First reported that Minneapolis retailer Target Corp. received an eight-year, 60-percent tax credit from Ohio to build a planned $100 million packaged foods distribution center.
Canned and frozen vegetable processors Seneca Foods Corporation, Marion, N.Y., and Allens, Inc., Siloam Springs, Ark., said they are contemplating a merger of the two companies in a stock-for-stock transaction.