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Wenner Bread's three Long Island, N.Y.-based processing facilities show a flair for worker and food safety.

Energy reduction is a cutting edge topic for Simplot Food Group and its Aberdeen, Idaho, plant.

Contessa Premium Foods' Green Cuisine processing plant is environmentally sound from all angles.

Lopez Foods hires a consultant to increase productivity, streamline operations at its Oklahoma City plant.

Smart maneuvers, creative innovation distinguish this year’s “Food Plants of the Year” honorees.

PakSense Labels monitor the temperature and time of a perishable item through distribution. Flashing lights indicate if temperature excursions have occurred and data collected by the label can be downloaded and graphed.

Harpak, the exclusive North American distributor of G. Mondini, offers complete pizza assembly lines that are fully automated and border-free.

Perhaps the best word to describe Dean Foods Co.’s financial situation is “fluid.” That is to say that the Dallas dairy giant’s fortunes have been bleak - though officials expect that to improve during the second half of this next fiscal calendar year.

You could say that this was no time to be timid behind the wheel. As an industry leader, Chiquita-Fresh Express recognized last year that it had to be active to “drive recovery” in a value-added salads category still reeling from the E.coli outbreak of fall 2006.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going . . . and continue growing. Actually, “continuing growth” was exactly how General Mills Inc., Minneapolis, summed up its fiscal 2007 performance.