Nestlé USA announced some key changes to its manufacturing operations, including laying off 200 employees from its Solon, Ohio, factory, which produces Stouffers and Lean Cuisine frozen meals.
Columbia Farms of Georgia, Inc., an affiliate of House of Raeford Farms, Inc., Rose Hill, N.C., announced plans to construct a new $16 million chicken hatchery.
Innovative Food Holdings, Inc., Naples, Fla., acquired Organic Food Brokers, LLC (OFB), a Boulder, Colo.-based company focusing on launching and growing retail sales for small and emerging organic and specialty food brands nationwide.
Nestlé USA, Solon, Ohio, expanded its quality assurance lab in Dublin, Ohio, which tests samples of DiGiorno pizza and Häagen-Dazs ice cream, among other brands, for foodborne pathogens, flags environmental contaminants and verifies nutritional claims.
Triumph Foods, St. Joseph, Mo., purchased a 50% ownership in Daily’s Premium Meats, the Missoula, Mont.-based processed meats division of Seaboard Foods.
Maple Leaf Foods completed the transfer of production from its facility in Moncton, NB to other facilities in the company's scale prepared meats network.