Pilgrim’s Pride to close
corporate headquarters
as it integrates with JBS

Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation has announced plans to close its corporate headquarters building in East Texas and a satellite corporate office in Atlanta GA as part of its continued integration with JBS USA....

Testa Produce turns
a brighter shade
of green with new HQ

With a new distribution center under construction, Testa Produce says it is on its way to becoming the first US food distributor to operate in a facility certified as LEED Platinum by the US Green Building Council....

FreshDirect grocery delivery
service arrives in Connecticut

Online grocer FreshDirect has added four new communities in the Greenwich CT area to its roster and doubled its presence in Westchester County NY to 21 communities....

‘Cold Train’ refrigerated
intermodal container rail,
distribution service begins

Rail Logistics, Columbia Colstor, LaGROU Distribution (ie, Chicago Cold Storage) and the Port of Quincy have begun a new expedited refrigerated intermodal “Cold Train” container rail and distribution service between Quincy WA and Chicago IL. ...

Naumes fruit donations
top 10 million pounds

Naumes Fruit Gifts announced that it donated three million pounds of fresh fruit to Feeding America and its member network in 2009. To date, the Naumes family has donated more than 10 million pounds of fresh fruit to this charity....

Motorola, Franwell RFID
helps H&M Bay operations

Motorola Inc and Franwell Inc have deployed a radio frequency identification (RFID) system at H&M Bay’s cross-docking distribution center in Federalsburg MD....

Permanent injunction
sought against Texas
egg roll manufacturer

The US Department of Justice, in an action initiated by the US Food and Drug Administration, is seeking a permanent injunction against Chung’s Products LP, an egg roll manufacturer in Houston TX; Charlie A Kujawa, the company’s president; and Gregory S Birdsell, the firm’s director of quality assurance....

Dot Foods responds
to Haitian relief needs

Dot Foods Inc recently collected and loaded 12 trucks with food and supplies bound for Haiti....

Hormel Foods opens
production facility

Hormel Foods Corporation celebrated the grand opening of Progressive Processing LLC, its new production facility in Dubuque IA....

Cold storage facilities
now eligible for loans
under USDA program

US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the Farm Storage Facility Loan program has been amended to allow producers to build cold storage facilities to store their fresh fruits and vegetables....

Tony’s Fine Foods delivers
non-stop customer service
via IBM, Vision Solutions

IBM announced that Tony’s Fine Foods, a perishable foods distributor, has put into place new business continuity infrastructure....

Dole supplies mobile
medical unit to care
for rural Costa Ricans

Dole Food Company Inc has inaugurated a mobile medical unit, which now offers some rural communities on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Costa Rica access to preventive medicine and specialized health attention....

Cold Train Intermodal
service open house
stokes shipper interest

More than 60 representatives of various food processors and produce shippers from the region attended a recent “Shippers Open House” at the Port of Quincy (WA) Intermodal Terminal to learn about a new expedited intermodal rail service for Washington State produce and perishable shippers....

Predestination
Transportation
chooses XATANET

XATA Corporation announced that Predestination Transportation LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Wood Fruitticher Food Service, recently chose the flagship XATANET fleet management system....

UNFI to use hydrogen fuel
cells to power lift trucks

United Natural Foods Inc has announced plans to adopt hydrogen fuel cell technology to power the lift truck fleet at its Sarasota FL distribution center....

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