Global consumer and market researcher Mintel International Group said it hired Pete Giannakopoulos as president for the company's Chicago-based Mintel Americas’ Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG).
An organic food and farming research group, The Organic Center (www.organic-center.org), Boulder, Colo., said it hired Joan Boykin as executive director.
Recognizing that salt consumption has long been a health concern, deli meats and cheese marketer Boar's Head, Sarasota, Fla., says it is addressing the topic -- head on.
Despite a recessionary climate, U.S. sales of ice cream and related frozen desserts (including frozen yogurt and frozen novelties) increased 2 percent to reach $25 billion in 2009.
Four companies – Catelli Brothers, Delimax Veal Inc., NRV, and Specialty Meats Inc. – said they have merged to become one of the nation's largest vertically integrated veal organizations.
Retail and foodservice supplier Fleischer’s Bagels, Inc., Macedon, N.Y., said it promoted Eric Kestenblatt to the newly created position of senior director-planning/development.
Now that it has exited bankruptcy, chicken processing giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp. plans to eliminate about 230 corporate and administrative positions during the first phase of its integration with Brazilian meat company JBS SA.
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