ConAgra Foods, Inc., Omaha, Neb., is said to acquire St. Louis-based Ralcorp Holdings, Inc., the largest manufacturer of private label food in the United States.
Anthony “Tony” Walter Kunis, vice president of operations for Reser's Fine Foods, Beaverton, Ore., lost a valiant fight from pancreatic cancer, as he passed away at his home Nov. 20.
House Foods America Corp., the Garden Grove, Calif., subsidiary of House Foods Corp. Japan, acquired El Burrito Mexican Food Products, Inc., a leading healthy Mexican food brand based in City of Industry, Calif.
California Dairies, Inc. (CDI), Visalia, Calif., acquired certain assets of Security Milk Producers Association (SMPA), a Chino, Calif., milk marketing cooperative, effective Jan. 1, 2013.
The E TranSlicer Cutter, manufactured by Urschel Laboratories, Inc., Valparaiso, Ind., was named Best in Food Processing Equipment at the Asian Manufacturing Awards in Singapore.
SCR Dairy Inc., a Madison, Wis.-based provider of dairy-herd management solutions, announced a partnership with Select Sires Inc. to market the company's Heatime systems for health monitoring and heat detection.