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Longtime employee and current president Anthony Vasquez acquired NewStar Fresh Foods, LLC.

IRI, Chicago, reached a long-term agreement with The Kroger Co., Cincinnati, to further enhance Kroger’s Customer 1st Strategy.

Henningsen Cold Storage Co., Portland, Ore., announced plans to build a new 166,000-square-foot facility in Salem, Ore.

Western Growers unveiled its new Irvine, Calif., headquarters.

Check out this week's personnel announcements from the cold food industry.

API Group, Canada, acquired the Osgood, Ind., paperboard lamination facilities and business from Hazen Paper Co., a paper converter based in Holyoke, Mass.

Sales of prepared meals turned slightly positive in 2015 after three consecutive years of decline, notching an increase of a little less than 1% on gains for both refrigerated and frozen side dishes, according to an executive summary on prepared meals, produced by Chicago-based Mintel.

Nestlé USA, Glendale, Calif., and Samsung Electronics America Inc., Ridgefield Park, N.J., announced a research collaboration to explore the potential of nutrition science and digital sensor technologies to provide new insights into healthy living.

Whole Foods Market, Austin, Texas, broke ground on a 150,000-square-foot Midwest distribution facility in the Pullman neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.