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Canada-based Nature Fresh Farms announced plans to begin construction on a 175-acre greenhouse facility in Delta, Ohio, in the spring of 2015.

Bakkavor, a UK-based prepared foods manufacturer, acquired B. Robert’s Foods, a private label prepared food manufacturer based in Charlotte, N.C.

Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc. announced plans to move its Springfield, Mo., meat slicing and packaging facility to Nebraska City, Neb., and Waco, Texas.

Lineage Logistics, a Colton, Calif.-based warehousing and logistics company sponsored by Bay Grove Capital LLC, San Francisco, acquired Columbia Colstor, a third-party warehousing and logistics company headquartered in Moses Lake, Wash.

Canada-based High Liner Foods Inc. announced plans to cease production at its leased manufacturing facility in Malden, Mass., to reduce excess capacity across its U.S. manufacturing facilities.

Scot Rank, retiring CEO of Walmart de Mexico and Central America, was appointed chief executive officer of Grupo LALA, succeeding current CEO Arquimedes Celis, who announced his intent to retire after leading the company for the past 14 years.

As part of its ongoing portfolio review, Nestlé Spain signed an agreement to sell its La Cocinera brand of frozen ready-to-eat meals to Findus Spain.

Creation Gardens, Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based wholesale food distributor of quality products such as produce, gourmet food, dairy, meats and restaurant staple items, acquired Mattingly Foods, a high-quality meat provider also headquartered in Louisville, Ky.