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IFDA report benchmarks
factors crucial to success
of foodservice distributors 

Designed exclusively for foodservice distributors, the 2009 IFDA Foodservice Distribution Operational Benchmark Report identifies and analyzes operational factors important to the success of foodservice distributors....

Dole Fresh Fruit chooses
iGPS pallets for shipping 

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), announced that Dole Fresh Fruit, a subsidiary of Dole Food Co, will begin using iGPS’ all-plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags for shipping some of its products within North America....

Performance Food
Group plans to acquire
Somerset Food Service 

Performance Food Group has announced the acquisition of Somerset Food Service, a broadline foodservice distribution company based in Somerset KY....

Safeway Inc issues
ground beef recall
in Arizona, New Mexico 

In cooperation with the Beef Packers Inc (Cargill) recall of 22,000 pounds of fresh ground beef that may be linked to an outbreak of Salmonella, Safeway Inc is recalling fresh ground beef products with “Sell By” dates of September 28 through October 11, 2009....

Crowley adds 400 reefer
containers to its fleet 

Crowley Maritime Corporation has added 400 new refrigerated containers to its fleet in time for the peak winter produce refrigerated cargo season. ...

Dot Transportation Inc’s
2008 Vendor of the Year:
Capital City Thermo King 

Capital City Thermo King/Thermo King Corp has received the Dot Transportation Inc (DTI) 2008 Vendor of the Year Award for providing excellent service and product support....

Oklahoma company recalls
frozen beef steak fritters 

Enid OK-based Advance Food Company is recalling about 110,730 pounds of frozen beef steak fritter products that may contain foreign materials, according to the the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)....

Three Kenworth trucks
help lighten the load
for Minnesota food bank 

Low-income Minnesotans miss 125 million meals each year, and one out of eight children in Minnesota is at risk of going hungry. For Second Harvest Heartland, those numbers are unacceptable....

Dole reports significantly
improved results for 3Q 

Dole Food Company Inc announced significant improvement in financial and operating results for the fiscal third quarter ended October 10, 2009. ...

New bulbs lighten energy bills
for US Foodservice–Lubbock 

Switching to high-efficiency light bulbs at US Foodservice–Lubbock (TX) is helping the local division cut an average 3,450 kilowatt-hours (kWh) from its daily electricity use—or about enough to power 111 average American homes for a day....

Newman’s Own pizza
donation will feed
hundreds of thousands 

Newman’s Own Inc has announced the distribution of more than 100,000 Newman’s Own Thin & Crispy Crust frozen pizzas to the Feeding America network of food banks....

Unilever voluntarily
recalls certain chilled
side-dish products 

Unilever United States Inc of Englewood Cliffs NJ, in cooperation with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is voluntarily recalling certain Shedd’s Country Crock chilled side-dish products because they may contain undeclared sulfites....

Kraft Foods eliminates
50 million truck miles
via sustainability efforts 

As population and urbanization increase, experts say traffic is only getting worse. Kraft Foods is addressing this challenge by finding alternatives to trucking and making its distribution network more efficient....

Pinnacle Foods Group
to purchase Birds Eye 

Pinnacle Foods Group LLC has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Birds Eye Foods Inc from a holding company controlled by Vestar Capital Partners, Pro-Fac Cooperative, and Birds Eye management....

Arby’s beefs up
its relationship
with McLane Co 

McLane Foodservice, a division of McLane Company Inc, announced that Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc has expanded its network with McLane to include food distribution services in Texas and surrounding states....

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