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.
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.
Bumble Bee Foods LLC, San Diego, said it agreed to sell a former sardine processing plant in Prospect Harbor, Me., to mail order foods supplier Live Lobster Co. Inc.
Refrigerated Kefir processor Lifeway Foods, Inc., Morton Grove, Ill., said it added three chain stores to its distribution channel during the first half of July.