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Tillamook to build new visitors center at flagship creamery

Through this project, the existing visitors center facility will be torn down, and built in its place will be a new 38,500-square-foot facility.
October 19, 2016
The Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) will undertake a significant project over the next two years that will completely redesign and rebuild the visitors center at the Tillamook Cheese Factory.
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Gay Lea Foods to acquire Stirling Creamery

Gay Lea Foods intends to maintain full operations at the Stirling plant and preserve all relationships with existing Stirling Creamery customers, suppliers and employees.
October 19, 2016
Canada-based Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Ltd. announced plans to acquire The Stirling Creamery Ltd., effective Nov. 1.
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J.A. King to acquire B & C Instruments

The purchase of B & C Instruments further expands J.A. King's calibration and repair capability in multiple industries throughout the region.
October 19, 2016
J.A. King, an ISO 17025 accredited precision measurement company based in Greensboro, N.C., announced plans to acquire B & C Instruments, Inc., a Huntsville, Ala.-based calibration and inspection laboratory.
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SUPERVALU plans to sell Save-A-Lot business

Under the terms of the agreement, SUPERVALU will provide Save-A-Lot with certain services and support functions for its day-to-day operations.
October 19, 2016
SUPERVALU INC., Minneapolis, entered into a definitive agreement whereby an affiliate of Onex Corp., Canada, will acquire SUPERVALU’s Save-A-Lot business.
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FECR Connect

Florida East Coast Railway’s web-based portal provides real-time track and trace

The FECR Connect system is a web-based portal that allows users to plan, schedule and track shipments in real time.
October 18, 2016
Florida East Coast Railway (FECR), Jacksonville, Fla., now provides customers with more features and capabilities in the FECR Connect system, a web-based portal that allows users to plan, schedule and track shipments in real time.
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Cargill, Jollibee break ground on largest poultry processing plant in Philippines

The new joint venture, called Cargill Joy Poultry Meats Production, Inc., is said to be the largest of its kind in the Philippines.
October 18, 2016
Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC), an Asian foodservice company based in the Philippines, and Cargill Philippines, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill Inc., Minnetonka, Minn., broke ground on a new poultry processing facility in Santo Tomas, Batangas, in the Philippines.
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Vitalus, Gay Lea Foods form JV to process butter, dairy ingredients in Manitoba

The Vitalus-Gay Lea Foods joint venture also provides a new market opportunity for milk from Manitoba dairy farms, as Dairy Farmers of Manitoba will be supplying the raw milk.
October 18, 2016
Vitalus Nutrition Inc., a Canada-based dairy ingredient supplier, and Gay Lea Foods Co-operative Ltd., Canada, entered into a joint venture to process dairy ingredients and butter in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Convey Services, Trackmax partner to offer online resource center for foodservice distributors

Convey’s Platform as a Profit Center (PaaPC) solution hosts and delivers supplier content, product information, training videos and rebates and coupons.
October 18, 2016
Convey Services, Roswell, Ga., announced a strategic partnership with Trackmax Solutions, a Cape Coral, Fla.-based provider of distributor-focused profit improvement software, to deliver a SaaS-based solution to improve the sales and profitably of foodservice distributors.
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Cargill, Jollibee Foods to build poultry processing facility

The partnership will create an estimated 1,000 new full-time jobs and develop new opportunities in the farming community in the Batangas and nearby provinces.
October 18, 2016
Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC), an Asian foodservice company based in the Philippines, and Cargill Philippines, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill Inc., Minnetonka, Minn., entered into an agreement to build and operate a poultry processing plant in Santo Tomas, Batangas.
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