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Bill Hudson, president and CEO of the Global Cold Chain Alliance (GCCA), addressed a special United Nations Forum on the Global Food Crisis.

Turkey processor Butterball  LLC plans to officially open its new corporate headquarters in Garner, N.C.

Industrial lift truck supplier Toyota Material Handling USA Inc., Irvine, Calif., said it promoted Brett Wood to president, effective immediately.

Stewart Owens, former chairman and CEO at Bob Evans Farms, died on Sept. 18 after a battle with gastric esophageal cancer.

Hormel Foods Corp., Austin, Minn., said Gary Ray, president of the company's protein units, and Russell Potter, vice president of operations-grocery products division, will retire.

The Organic Trade Association (OTA), Greenfield, Mass., said it hired Christine Bushway as the organization's executive director.

Food industry equipment, supply and service companies will honor Arthur Wolcott, chairman of Seneca Foods Corp., during  PROCESS EXPO on Nov. 10 in Chicago.

Refrigerated and frozen products such as Yoplait yogurt and Green Giant vegetables helped General Mills Inc., Minneapolis, post a 14 percent net sales gain.

To lower interest expenses and overall debt, global shipping and logistics services provider Hf Eimskipafelag Islands, Reykjavik, Iceland, said it expects by the end of 2008 to sell VersaCold Atlas.

Citing feed costs and an oversupply of chicken, Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, said it will lay off 116 workers at the company's Franconia, Pa., plant.