AdvancePierre Foods opened a customer innovation and research center, a combination of lab space and meeting rooms that brings the R&D food labs and test kitchens to customers.
Pactiv, LLC, Lake Forest, Ill., plans a $4.5 million investment in its Columbus, Ohio, facility, adding at least two new production lines and 65 manufacturing jobs.
Food safety, healthy eating, food waste and big flavors are on the menu for 2016, according to a 2016 trends report released by Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center.
FiveStar Gourmet Foods, an Ontario, Calif.-based provider of fresh and frozen prepared foods, announced plans to expand to the East Coast with a $20 million investment in a food manufacturing and distribution operation near Naples, Fla.
Chicago-based Arbor Investments completed the acquisition of a majority equity stake in DPI Specialty Foods, Inc., Ontario, Calif., from Dublin, Ireland-based Ornua Cooperative Ltd.