Most Americans say they are either trying to lose or maintain weight by changing the amount of food they eat (71 percent), changing the types of foods they eat (65 percent), engaging in physical activity (62 percent), changing how often they eat (44 percent) and counting calories (19 percent).
Industrial cheese, ingredient and sauce supplier Sargento Food Ingredients, Plymouth, Wis., launched the Sargento Idea Center (www.SargentoIdeaCenter.com), a virtual creativity kitchen.
EM-ESS Acquisition LLC -- representing New York businessman Marvin Sussman -- has acquired Chloe Foods Corp., the Brooklyn, N.Y., parent to East Coast deli salads processor Blue Ridge Farms.
Citing its members' budgetary travel restrictions, Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA) International, Chandler, Ariz., said it will postpone its annual North American fall conference until next spring.
The Monroe (La.) News-Star said a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved and finalized the $80 million sale of Pilgrim's Pride Corp.'s chicken processing plant in Farmerville, La.