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Simply Essentials to open chicken processing plant

Once open, the state-of-the-art, innovative chicken processing plant will produce high-quality, premium chicken products.
June 6, 2016
Simply Essentials, LLC, Overland Park, Kan., purchased the Cedar River Poultry chicken processing plant in Charles City, Iowa, and announced plans to invest more than $30 million to reopen it in the fall.
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Green Plant installs second HPP machine

Green Plant is also dubbed to be the first and only Florida-based company with an HPP machine capable of producing 4 million bottles of cold-pressed juice per month.
June 3, 2016
Green Plant LLC installed its second Hiperbaric high-pressure processing (HPP) machine in six months.
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Southeast Frozen Foods expanding S.C. operations

The Gaston site distributes refrigerated and frozen foods to hundreds of retail grocery stores and provides cold storage services to processors and manufacturers.
June 3, 2016
Southeast Frozen Foods, Miramar, Fla., announced plans to expand its Gaston, S.C., operations.
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Country Pure Foods acquires Ridgefield’s Brand

Ridgefield’s 100% fruit juice products will allow Country Pure Foods to provide school nutrition customers with more meal choices for students.
June 2, 2016
Country Pure Foods, Akron, Ohio, purchased the assets of The Ridgefield’s Brand Corp., which includes Smooth-Frozen Ridgefield’s SideKicks and Cup Slushies products.
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Liberty Cold’s new cold storage facility delivers state-of-the-art 3PL services

This state-of-the-art facility was designed with food safety and security as a top priority.
June 2, 2016
In anticipation of West Liberty Foods opening the doors to its new cold storage facility, Liberty Cold, June 30, Marina Mayer, editor-in-chief of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods magazine, sat down with Tim Cox, vice president of Liberty Cold, Bolingbrook, Ill., to learn more about this new state-of-the-art facility that was built with food safety and security as top priority.
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Cargill to acquire Five Star Custom Foods

Adding Five Star Custom Foods to the Cargill family will enhance the company’s existing cooked protein capabilities, optimize supply chain efficiencies and provide innovation opportunities.
June 2, 2016
Cargill, Inc., Wichita, Kan., signed an agreement to acquire Five Star Custom Foods, Ltd., a Fort Worth, Texas-based processor of cooked protein products and custom prepared soups and sauces for the foodservice and food processing sectors.
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Vaping company acquires Ada’s Natural Market

Ada's Natural Market is a natural and organic grocery store in Ft. Myers, Fla.
June 2, 2016
Vapor Corp., a Dania Beach, Fla.-based distributor and retailer of vaping products, announced that, through its wholly owned subsidiary Healthy Choice Markets, Inc., completed the acquisition of Ada's Natural Market.
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Cargill, Jollibee Foods form joint venture

The agreement includes building and operating a poultry processing plant in Santo Tomas, Batangas, in the Philippines.
June 1, 2016
Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC), an Asian foodservice company, and Cargill Philippines, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill Inc., Minneapolis, entered into an agreement to build and operate a poultry processing plant in Santo Tomas, Batangas, in the Philippines.
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JBS expands ground beef facility

The project includes a new state-of-the-art fabrication building, a new cutting-edge ground beef facility and a new distribution center.
June 1, 2016
JBS USA, Greeley, Colo., completed a nearly $100 million expansion project at its Hyrum, Utah, beef processing complex.
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