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Mastronardi Produce--parent company of Sunset fruits and vegetables--has sold its 187,392-square-foot dry and cold storage warehouse facility in Laredo, Texas, to BH Properties in a short-term sale leaseback transaction. The 132-door cross dock facility is the first asset in Laredo for BH Properties, a real estate investment firm which has approximately 20% of its 10 million-square-foot commercial and industrial real estate portfolio in Texas.

Comax Flavors introduces the 2021 Flavor Trends divided into four distinct flavor collections. Immunity Boost focuses on consumers’ quest for functional foods and beverages while Breakfast Basics addresses consumers’ interest in breakfast at home or on the go. Home Baker taps into rediscovering baking and cooking at home while Chicken Soars spotlights consumers’ appetite for chicken and plant-based chicken alternatives. 

My/Mo Mochi Ice Cream, creator of the modern frozen snack category, is here to chill out this holiday season with limited edition flavor Cool Peppermint. The seasonal flavor comes just in time for hungry mochi lovers everywhere to hunker down for the holidays. Snackers can now find this twist on the classic, wintery flavor in freezer aisles nationwide. And rest assured, no snowmen were harmed in the making of the desquishiously frosty Cool Peppermint My/Mo Mochi.

How fleet adaptability can help distributors weather e-commerce and coronavirus challenges.

NewCold will build and operate an advanced, large-scale automated cold store facility which will be the biggest in Indiana and one of the largest in the United States. It is approximately half the size of the mammoth Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts. At 141 feet high (43 meters), the facility holds over 100,000 pallet positions.

Thanksgiving celebrations this year are likely to look a little different, with smaller gatherings and less travel. To help consumers celebrate the holiday during this unusual year, PERDUE announced the launch of PERDUE ThanksNuggets, a limited-time offering that packs all the best flavors of Thanksgiving into two nuggets: Breaded Breast Meat Turkey Nuggets and Breaded Dark Meat Turkey and Cranberry Nuggets. The drumstick-shaped dark meat nugget is inspired by traditional sides like cranberry sauce and stuffing, while the turkey-shaped white meat nugget is inspired by everyone's favorite Thanksgiving vegetable: sweet potato.

Booming e-commerce and DTC deliveries are raising questions about the price and sustainability of cold foods packaging. We talk to three companies for tips on balancing cost and conscience.  

Advice for proper use, care and maintenance of food processing cleaning tools amid the pandemic.

Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG), headquartered in Kansas City, Kansas, is the largest cooperative food wholesaler in the United States. The company, with sales of more than $10 billion, is planning and building a leading-edge, highly automated full-range logistics center in Hernando, Mississippi,

Find out how Devanco Foods pivoted early in the pandemic and made an impact on the frozen food aisle in 2020, and also with readers of Refrigerated & Frozen Foods.