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InsideToronto.com said Cargill Limited plans next spring to close its Etobicoke, Ont., case-ready meat packing plant as part of "a strategic realignment."

America’s twenty-somethings, known as the Millennial generation or generation Y, are connected, confident, and tend to live in the moment when it comes to making food choices.

International Refrigerated Transportation Association (IRTA) members re-elected Andy Janson, president of Hanson Logistics, as IRTA's 2010-2011 chairman of IRTA.

New Zealand's Fonterra Co-operative Group said it hired Giovanna "Gigi" Vita as president of Fonterra North America.

The most important meal of the day continues to face short-term challenges related to the recession, but market research publisher Packaged Facts.

Convenience store retailer 7-Eleven Inc., Dallas, said it hired Jesus H. Delgado-Jenkins as senior vice president of merchandising and logistics.

Convenience store giant 7-Eleven Inc., Dallas, has been testing sales of whole roasted chicken at some downtown Chicago stores this week, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Having started with Northfield freezing in 1985, Bud Martinson is now back in Northfield's original building -- as director of sales for spiral freezing systems supplier NTFE America.

Dorada Poultry, Oklahoma City, Okla., said it expects by mid-2011 to operate a former Tyson Foods Inc. plant in Ponca City, Okla.

George Weston Limited, Toronto, said its U.S. frozen bakery subsidiary, Maplehurst Bakeries, LLC, agreed to purchase Keystone Bakeries LLC for USD $185 million.