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Although it plans to keep its Longmont, Colo., turkey hot dog processing plant, Butterball LLC, Garner, N.C., sold its Longmont brand to Sigma Alimentos.

United States Cold Storage, Voorhees, N.J., expects by April to open a temperature-controlled distribution center in Wilmington, Ill.

Sara Lee Corp., Downers Grove, Ill., recently announced a series of organizational changes.

Henningsen Cold Storage Co., Hillsboro, Ore., said it opened the "Henningsen Transload Center" -- served by both the United Pacific and Burlington Northern Sante Fe railroads.

The American Meat Institute, Washington, D.C., announced several personnel appointments.

Consumers can expect by mid-2009 to see new Fruit2Day chilled fruit offerings from a 50/50 joint venture partnership between organic and natural foods specialist WhiteWave Foods Co. and Hero North America LLC.

Wesley Eubanks was promoted to senior vice president of sales and marketing at The Pictsweet Co.

J. P. Veggies Inc., Parsippany, N.J., a natural and vegetarian foods processor, announced that it has acquired the Franklin Farms, North Fankliln, Conn., brand of vegetarian products.

Stellar, Jacksonville, Fla., said it expects by next fall to complete a 225,000-square-foot frozen entree plant for H.J. Heinz Co. in Florence, S.C.

Bankruptcy is "highly probable" according to CreditSights, a New York-based research firm.