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Williams Sausage to expand manufacturing facility, add new sandwich line

Williams Sausage produces fresh sausage, fully cooked sausage, bacon, sandwiches and other food products for wholesale to retail grocers, restaurants, whole grocery warehouses and food distributors.
February 3, 2017
Williams Sausage Co., Inc. announced plans for a $37 million investment that will result in 226 new jobs, a new 180,000-square-foot facility, a $3 million investment to its existing facility and a new sandwich line.
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Michael Angelo's frozen entrees

Sovos Brands acquires Michael Angelo's Gourmet Foods

Michael Angelo's is the first investment by Sovos Brands, a new type of food and beverage company that seeks to acquire and build one-of-a-kind brands to establish a scale player in the consumer packaged goods industry.
February 3, 2017
Advent International, a Boston, Mass.-based global private equity investor, and its newly formed company Sovos Brands, San Francisco, completed the acquisition of Michael Angelo's Gourmet Foods Inc.
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NPD study shows U.S. consumers want customization

Even though dieting is on the decline, “my own diet” is still rising as the most common way consumers take control of their intake.
February 3, 2017
U.S. consumers will take a personal approach to their health and wellness in 2017, reports The NPD Group, Chicago.
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Partner Logistics refrigerated trailer

Partner Logistics invests in new trailers for frozen food shipment

The new Schmitz Cargobull S.KO COOL semitrailers will be used to move frozen food products between the Partner Logistics deep-freeze warehouse and the production facilities of Lamb Weston and Pinguin UK.
February 3, 2017
Partner Logistics, UK, invested in two new trailers for its shuttle operations at its near 80,000-pallet capacity cold storage center in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.
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Supply chain managers offer Top 7 manufacturing technology predictions

In a new white paper from IHS Markit, manufacturing technology analysts were asked to provide their informed predictions for the global manufacturing technology market in 2017.
February 3, 2017
After a disappointing 2016 in automation sales, declining revenues for many equipment suppliers and investment uncertainties in numerous end markets, vendors in industrial automation are hoping for a brighter 2017.
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Keystone Fruit Marketing merges with Progressive Produce

Progressive Produce specializes in conventional and organic lines of asparagus, potatoes, onions, citrus and Hispanic fruits and vegetables under the AMERICAS label.
February 3, 2017
Progressive Produce LLC, Los Angeles, and Keystone Fruit Marketing, Inc., Greencastle, Pa., formed a merger agreement.
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