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Smithfield Foods, Smithfield, Va., broke ground on an expansion to its Cudahy, Wis., facility, which produces the company's Patrick Cudahy brand as well as additional Smithfield branded products.

Kangaroo Brands, Inc., a Milwaukee, Wis.-based manufacturer of specialty breads and frozen handheld sandwiches, completed an expansion that will create 50 new jobs over the next 12 months.

Canada-based SunOpta Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Sunrise Holdings (Delaware), Inc., Placentia, Calif., from an investor group led by affiliates of Paine & Partners LLC.

Velvet Ice Cream broke ground on a $3 million, 21,000-square-foot facility expansion to its Utica, Ohio, headquarters facility.

Bunzl Minneapolis moved to a 155,000-square-foot distribution center in Maple Grove, Minn.

The Opus Group, Minnetonka, Minn., completed a 1.6 million-square-foot distribution center for ConAgra Foods' Frankfort, Ind., facility.

WhiteWave Foods, Denver, Colo., acquired Wallaby Yogurt Co., Inc., American Canyon, Calif., for approximately $125 million in cash.

Plug Power Inc., Latham, N.Y., acquired HyPulsion, a European joint venture created by Plug Power and Axane, S.A., a subsidiary of Air Liquide S.A.

Toyota Industrial Equipment Manufacturing (TIEM), Irvine, Calif., announced a new $16 million expansion and building renovation at its forklift manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ind.

Chicago-based JBT Corp. acquired the remaining shares of Stork Food & Dairy Systems B.V.