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Consumer demand for healthy items and product transparency continues to shape the food and beverage marketplace, according to Gladson, a Lisle, Ill.-based provider of digital product content for the consumer goods industry.

Last year’s growth and sales has led the foodservice packaging industry to forecast continued confidence for 2016 despite familiar challenges, according to Foodservice Packaging Institute’s (FPI) 17th annual State of the Industry Survey.

Dairy cooperative Agri-Mark, Inc., Methuen, Mass., will invest nearly $30 million to expand its cheese manufacturing facility in Chateaugay, N.Y., and retain 106 jobs.

VersaCold Logistics Services entered into an agreement to acquire Coastal Pacific Xpress (CPX), a Canada-based refrigerated carrier specializing in the shipping of perishable and ambient products throughout Canada and the United States.

Minneapolis-based General Mills announced plans to accelerate its commitment to more than double the organic acreage from which it sources ingredients.

ConAgra Foods, Inc., Omaha, Neb., announced plans to expand its Lamb Weston Boardman, Ore., facility.

Check out this rundown of personnel changes impacting the refrigerated and frozen foods industry.

Health and eco-minded consumers are looking beyond natural labels to organic, non-GMO and grass-fed label claims, according to the 2016 Market LOHAS MamboTrack consumer research survey, produced by Market Dynamics-Market LOHAS, Acton, Mass.

Systech International, a Princeton, N.J., leader in brand protection technologies, will now offer its Unisolve serialization software as a fully integrated turnkey solution with LSI by ID Technology’s labeling hardware.