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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 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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PLUS Location, Auburn University partnership helps RFID lab provide IoT solutions to supply chain industry

The Auburn RFID Lab is a research institute focusing on the business case and technical implementation of RFID and other emerging technologies in retail, supply chain and manufacturing.
August 15, 2016
PLUS Location Systems, a Huntsville, Ala.-based provider of real-time location tracking and decision support solutions, announced a partnership with the Auburn University RFID Lab, Auburn, Ala., to provide RFID technologies to the supply chain and manufacturing industry.
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Tall Tree Foods acquires The January Co.

The January Co. is renowned for its authentic, high-quality Chinese-style sausage and BBQ pork products sold throughout the United States under the Kam Yen Jan and Yangtze brands.
August 15, 2016
Tall Tree Foods, a Milwaukee-based portfolio company of Altamont Capital Partners (Altamont), Palo Alto, Calif., acquired The January Co., a manufacturer of Chinese-style meat products based in Kent, Wash.
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UNFI acquires Gourmet Guru

The acquisition enhances UNFI’s strength in finding and cultivating emerging fresh and organic brands and further expands UNFI’s presence in key urban markets.
August 15, 2016
United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), Providence, R.I., acquired all of the outstanding stock of Gourmet Guru.
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Target, Whole Foods Market become most climate-friendly retailers

Target uses a rackless refrigeration system while Whole Foods Market’s Hydrocarbon/CO2 Cascade System reduces the environmental impacts of refrigerants to near-zero.
August 15, 2016
Target Corp. and Whole Foods Market keep grocery aisles warm by re-using the heat emitted by refrigeration systems as a natural by-product, thereby saving additional energy during cold months.
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