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Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Toronto, said it will close a prepared meats facility located in Surrey, British Columbia, on September 30, 2011.

National Beef Packing Company, LLC, Kansas City, announced several promotions.

France's SAVOYE said its Chicago-based subsidiary, SAVOYE Inc., purchased Retrotech Inc., a Fishers, N.Y., firm specializing in the design, installation, modernization, and support of automated material handling systems.

Seattle's Seafreeze / City Ice, a leading cold storage provider on the Port of Seattle, said it hired Bonnie Geise as vice president of business development.

Frozen bagged seafood and entrees processor Contessa Premium Foods, Inc., San Pedro, Calif., said it filed Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings in Los Angeles.

Having spurned offers from Brazil's JBS and others, global food and beverage giant Sara Lee Corp., Downers Grove, Ill., announced last week that it would spin off the company's two major business units into separate public businesses.

A Pittsburgh, Pa., private equity firm, Main Street Capital Holdings LLC, purchased refrigerated foods processor  Harry’s Fresh Foods, Portland, Ore.

Refrigerated and frozen soups processor Kettle Cuisine said its Chelsea, Mass., plant earned Level 2 Safe Quality Food (SQF) Certification from the SQF Institute.

Nestlé USA and Nestle Water’s North America said both companies signed multi-year contracts to ship their products on pallets from CHEP Americas.

Chicken, beef and pork processing giant Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark.,  said it became the first major food company to become a full member of the IMAGE program.