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Walmart culinary innovation center

Walmart opens Culinary & Innovation Center

Wal-Mart is currently testing frozen stuffed donut bites and vacuum-packed Paleo meals at this center.
August 18, 2016
Walmart opened the doors to its new 12,000-square-foot Culinary & Innovation Center, located at the retailer’s Bentonville, Ark., headquarters.
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Aldi free-from meat

ALDI to establish division HQs, distribution facility

The 500,000-square-foot facility is expected to create 145 new jobs.
August 17, 2016
ALDI, Batavia, Ill., announced plans to invest $57 million to establish a division headquarters and 500,000-square-foot distribution facility in Dinwiddie County, Va.
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Study: Major food processors struggle as smaller companies gain competitive edge

Changes in consumers’ core values—amplified by social media, celebrity chefs and a myriad of food experts—are rewarding small and medium-size companies with above-average growth and slowing the growth of the Top 25 food and beverage companies.
August 17, 2016
A new report by A.T. Kearney, Chicago, and The Hartman Group, Bellevue, Wash., finds key food trends are slowing the growth of some of the nation’s largest food and beverage companies.
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Labatt Food Service plant

Labatt Food Service opens $28M meat cooking facility

The new facility can cook up to 4 million pounds of barbacoa, 9.5 million tamales (or 792,000 dozen) and 1.7 million pounds of smoked brisket a year on just one shift.
August 17, 2016
Labatt Food Service, San Antonio, Texas, opened a new, 65,000-square-foot, $28 million meat cooking facility, producing barbacoa, brisket and tamales for fast food and restaurant customers.
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Premium Brands to acquire Fletcher’s Fine Foods’ U.S. operations

Fletcher's US sells a variety of premium bacon and fresh sausage products in the U.S. Pacific Northwest under the Fletcher's brand.
August 16, 2016
Premium Brands Holdings Corp., Canada, announced that its Ferndale, Wash.-based subsidiary, Hempler Foods Group LLC, entered into an agreement to acquire Fletcher's Fine Foods (Fletcher’s US), Auburn, Wash.
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Universal Pasteurization to host first annual HPP Summit

The event will feature food and beverage industry veterans in food science, food safety, regulatory, marketing and retail, as they present the latest innovations in HPP applications and how to successfully develop, brand and launch HPP products.
August 15, 2016
Universal Pasteurization Co., a Lincoln, Neb.-based provider of high-pressure processing (HPP) services, will host the first dedicated HPP Summit, scheduled for Oct. 3-5 at the University of Nebraska Innovation Campus.
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