Seattle-based Seafreeze Cold Storage said it received a $561,000 low-interest loan to improve energy efficiency at its 7 million-cubic-foot refrigerated facility in south Seattle.
Construction and fabrication services provider Corval Group, Inc., St. Paul, Minn., said it purchased American Industrial Refrigeration (AIR), Atwater, Minn.
Northwest Indiana media say port logistics and maritime services provider ICS Logistics, Jacksonville, Fla., is considering LaPorte, Ind., as the possible location for a new $50 million, 500,000-square-foot refrigerated and frozen warehouse.
Fresh and frozen bakery giant Flowers Foods, Thomasville, Ga., said its board of directors elected Allen L. Shiver president effective January 1, 2010.
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI), McLean, Va., said it hired Mary Becton as its new director of conferences and Kristen Friend as the organization's new manager of conferences.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Pinnacle Foods Group LLC, Mountain Lakes, N.J., agreed to purchase the nation's largest frozen vegetable processor, Birds Eye Foods, Rochester, N.Y., for $1.3 billion.
Nestlé S.A., Vevey, Switzerland, says its Nestlé Professional North America foodservice business agreed to acquire Vitality Foodservice Inc., a leading beverage solutions provider to the North American foodservice industry.
Tyson Foods Inc. Chairman John Tyson today said the company's board of directors selected Donnie Smith as the meat and poultry company's president and chief executive officer, effectively immediately.
Consumer trends researcher Mintel, Chicago, predicts new flavors will make an appearance in the U.S. marketplace in 2010, as well as some familiar ones...reinvented.