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Nordic Logistics to develop cold storage, repack facility

With 25 doors and 85 foot docks, the facility will support efficient product unloading, receiving, inspection and grading.
October 12, 2016
Nordic Logistics and Warehousing, an Atlanta-based member of AGRO Merchants Group, announced plans to develop a new cold storage and repack facility in Savannah, Ga.
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Fleet management solutions providers form alliance to improve fleet safety worldwide

The alliance’s services will include driver and fleet risk assessment, driver behavior monitoring and remedial and pro-active driver safety training.
October 12, 2016
The CEI Group, Inc., Trevose, Pa., CEPA SafeDrive, Mexico, and VVCR International, Europe, created the Global Fleet SafeDrive Alliance, which will offer what is said to be the industry’s first turnkey, fully integrated multinational fleet safety program.
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Danone's Activia brand undergoes redesign

The core of the redesign is a new logo, made up of two interlocking shapes, to represent efficacy and inner-balance.
October 12, 2016
Danone, France, is hoping a new design and visual identity for its digestive health brand Activia will position the yogurt range in a more premium light and strengthen its health proposition.
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Palladium Equity Partners invests in Del Real Foods

Del Real manufactures a variety of heat-and-serve Hispanic food products, including value-added proteins such as Carnitas and Barbacoa, rice and bean dishes and staples such as tamales and salsas.
October 12, 2016
Palladium Equity Partners, LLC, New York, announced that one of its affiliated private equity funds made a significant investment in partnership with the founding family of Del Real Foods, a Hispanic refrigerated foods company based in Mira Loma, Calif.
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ConAgra sets date for Lamb Weston spinoff

ConAgra Foods also announced that its board of directors approved an increase to its existing share repurchase program.
October 11, 2016
ConAgra Foods, Inc., Chicago, announced the record and distribution dates for the spin-off of its Lamb Weston business.
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AdvancePierre Foods acquires Allied Specialty Foods

Allied’s 20,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Vineland features two cook lines, three raw slicing lines and one breakaway steak line.
October 10, 2016
Cincinnati-based AdvancePierre Foods acquired Allied Specialty Foods, Inc., a Vineland, N.J.-based manufacturer of raw and cooked beef and chicken Philly steak products for foodservice, for $60 million.
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Thai Union Group to acquire Red Lobster

Thai Union is a global seafood supplier of lobster, shrimp, sardines, mackerel, tuna, salmon and crab under the Chicken of the Sea, King Oscar, John West and Petit Navire brands.
October 10, 2016
Thai Union Group PCL, Bangkok, made a $575 million strategic investment in Red Lobster, an Orlando, Fla.-based seafood restaurant company.
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