Food Distributors

Greencore Group
acquires HMBF
May 5, 2008 10:29 AM

Greencore Group PLC, one of Europe’s leading convenience food and malt producers, has acquired Home Made Brand Foods Inc. (HMBF), a manufacturer in the chilled food market for the northeastern United States....

Fresh Del Monte harvests
‘solid financial results’
Apr 30, 2008 9:47 AM

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter, which ended March 28, 2008....

FPL Food to expand
South Carolina plant
Apr 28, 2008 10:03 AM

FPL Food LLC will invest $4.29 million to reopen a food plant in West Columbia SC, the South Carolina Commerce Department says....

Icicle plans to land
Smoki Foods operations
Apr 25, 2008 8:51 AM

Icicle Seafoods Inc., a seafood harvesting and processing company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Smoki Foods, a processor of fresh and frozen seafood, along with its subsidiaries....

Smucker agrees to acquire frozen fruit firm
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

The J. M. Smucker Company has entered into an agreement, through a subsidiary, to acquire Europe's Best Inc....

FDA warns of tainted Honduran cantaloupes
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

The United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about cantaloupes being imported from the Honduran company Agropecuaria Montelibano...

W. P. Carey & Co. acquires
four Best Brands facilities
Mar 24, 2008 10:47 AM

CPA:16–Global, the REIT affiliate of investment firm W. P. Carey & Co., has acquired four manufacturing facilities from Best Brands Corporation for a purchase price of about $50 million....

FDA warns of tainted
Honduran cantaloupes
Mar 24, 2008 10:47 AM

The United States Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about cantaloupe being imported from the Honduran company Agropecuaria Montelibano because its fruit appears to be connected to a Salmonella Litchfield outbreak in the United States and Canada....

Artisanal signs distribution
agreement with Baldor
May 2, 2008 8:53 AM

American Home Food Products Inc., doing business as Artisanal Premium Cheese, has signed a distribution agreement with Baldor Specialty Foods, one of the largest distributors of fresh produce in the Northeast....

Dean Foods to close
dairy processing plant
Apr 25, 2008 8:44 AM

Texas-based Dean Foods Company plans to close its Fairmont Products dairy processing plant in Belleville PA in October 2008....

Food Service

FreshDirect expands
delivery into Brooklyn NY
Apr 21, 2008 10:17 AM

Online grocer FreshDirect plans to expand its delivery services to reach the Brooklyn NY neighborhoods including Bedford Stuyvesant (“Bed Stuy”), Crown Heights, and Red Hook....

United Natural Foods
to open its largest DC
Apr 15, 2008 8:59 AM

United Natural Foods Inc. announced plans to relocate its New Oxford PA operations to a new 675,000-square-foot distribution facility in the Greenspring Industrial Park in York PA....

Supermarkets

Supermarket chains join EPA GreenChill
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Hannaford Brothers and Whole Foods, have joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) GreenChill Partnership...

SuperValu joins EPA GreenChill partnership
Apr 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Retail grocery company SuperValu Inc. has joined the United States Environmental Protection Agency's GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, a...

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