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Cerelia acquires English Bay Batter

English Bay Batter offers frozen cookie dough in pre-portion sizes, scoop and bake pails, chubs, break and bake and seasonal canisters.
April 13, 2017
French food company Cerelia acquired English Bay Batter (EBB), a Canada-based frozen cookie dough processor.
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HAVI, foodservice associations develop industry’s first supply chain optimization best practices

The development board consists of 15 foodservice chain operators.
April 12, 2017
HAVI, Downers Grove, Ill., joined forces with International Foodservice Manufacturers Association (IFMA), Chicago; Kinetic12, a Chicago-based food industry management consulting firm; and research company Datassential, Chicago, to support the development of what is dubbed as the first-ever best practices for foodservice supply chain optimization.
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Robopack Spain

Robopac opens manufacturing facility in Spain

This new location is also home to TechLab, what is said to be the most advanced research laboratory dedicated to continuous innovation in the field of load stabilization.
April 12, 2017
Robopac USA, Duluth, Ga., opened a new plant and headquarters location in Vinaros (Castellón), Spain, to better serve the strategic markets of Spain and Portugal.
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Cargill Columbus Plant

Cargill opens converted cooked meats facility

The project converted Cargill’s fresh ground beef plant to a cooked meats operation.
April 12, 2017
Cargill, Wichita, Kan., officially opened the doors to its $111 million cooked meats facility in Columbus, Neb.
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Smithfield Foods introduces Smithfield Bioscience to leverage byproducts from the meat production process

Today, Smithfield sells byproducts to pharmaceutical and nutraceutical companies to develop drugs that treat a range of issues.
April 12, 2017
Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., launched Smithfield Bioscience, a new strategic platform within the organization that leverages byproducts from the meat production process for the development of pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals and medical device solutions.
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SUPERVALU to acquire Unified Grocers

This transaction will bring together two highly complementary grocery wholesale organizations with combined sales of approximately $16 billion in 2016.
April 11, 2017
SUPERVALU INC., Eden Prairie, Minn., and Unified Grocers, Inc., Commerce, Calif., entered into a definitive merger agreement for SUPERVALU to acquire Unified Grocers.
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Study: Restaurant industry faces a defining moment

The study finds that 57% of consumers polled plan to dine out the same number of times in the next 12 months as in the previous year.
April 11, 2017
A new study released by AlixPartners, a New York-based global business-advisory firm, posits that the turbulence in the chain-restaurant industry of late—from underperforming results to an uptick in bankruptcies to renewed shareholder pressures—might not be just a blip but rather a sign of structural changes besetting the industry.
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