The Dallas Morning News reported that Dallas-based Dean Foods Co. expects by next spring to renovate and expand a vacant, 190,000-square-foot building in Dallas to produce WhiteWave products.
Cargill Pork, Wichita, Kan., said it paid approximately $33 million to buy a 21,500-acre hog production site near Dalhart, Texas, from Premium Standard Farms LLC, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.
Refrigerated and frozen foods earned several honors in the National Restaurant Association's (NRA) first annual "Food & Beverage Product Innovations Awards" contest.
Potato products supplier Nonpareil Corp., Blackfoot, Idaho, said it expanded its co-packing partnership with General Mills to include packaging and distribution of frozen potatoes under the Betty Crocker brand.
Frozen bakery and snacks leader J&J Snack Food Corp., Pennsauken, N.J., said it expects by the end of this May to buy ConAgra Foods' frozen hand-held products business.
Twin Cities Business reported that Dairy Farmers of America Inc., Kansas City, Mo., is in talks with HP Hood LLC, Lynnfield, Mass., to acquire Kemps LLC.