Pork and turkey processing giant Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., said Richard J. M. Poulson, executive vice president, will retire from Smithfield effective September 1, 2010.
Great Dane Limited Partnership said it plans by 2012 to build and open a 450,000-square-foot plant in Statesboro, Ga., to manufacture more than 5,000 refrigerated trailers per year.
Canadian fast-food restaurant operator Tim Horton's Inc., Oakville, Ontario, said it sold its 50 percent interest in a Brampton, Ont., frozen bakery, Maidstone Bakeries, to joint venture Aryzta AG.
Citing excess capacity in the fresh sausage industry, restaurant operator and sausage processor Bob Evans Farms Inc., Columbus, Ohio, said it will close its Galva, Ill., sausage plant, effective immediately.
Contract frozen vegetable processor Seneca Foods Corporation, Marion, N.Y., said it purchased the assets of Unilink, LLC from Pennsylvania Food Group, LLC and has purchased Lebanon Valley Cold Storage, LP.
Directors for Mexico's Sigma Alimentos (Sigma) and Bar-S Foods Co. (Bar-S) said today that they agreed to merge Sigma’s U.S. business and Bar-S, a Phoenix-based meat processor.
Sara Lee Corp.'s board of directors today announced that Chairman & CEO Brenda Barnes, who has been on medical leave since May 14, will step down permanently.
U.S. Foodservice, Rosemont, Ill., said it expects by July 2011 to complete a $33 million expansion at its Central Florida food distribution center in Port Orange, Fla.
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