Sep 3, 2008 10:26 AM
The American Trucking Associations has launched ATA Business Solutions, a line of information products, business tools, services, training programs, and conferences designed to address issues affecting trucking-related companies....
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Sep 2, 2008 8:42 AM
Federal Signal Corporation’s PIPS Technology subsidiary has entered into a cooperative agreement with 3M Corporation to provide an electronic vehicle registration (EVR) system for the transportation market segment....
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Sep 2, 2008 8:36 AM
Peterbilt has added a new Green Technologies website within its main website—www.peterbilt.com—to promote the company’s advanced technologies and vehicles that provide gains in fuel efficiency and reduce emissions....
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Aug 27, 2008 9:47 AM
Maple Leaf Foods has expanded its voluntary recall of packaged meat products manufactured at its Bartor Road facility in Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
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Aug 27, 2008 9:47 AM
Sainsbury’s supermarket in the United Kingdom has begun food deliveries to its flagship green store using a truck whose engine has been converted to run on liquid biomethane fuel produced from normal landfill waste....
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Aug 25, 2008 10:07 AM
The American Trucking Associations is taking the week of August 24-30 to extend a national “pat on the back” to the 3.5 million professional truck drivers that deliver America’s freight safely and securely every day....
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Aug 22, 2008 9:21 AM
Penske Truck Leasing and City Harvest announced the launch of an environmentally friendly refrigerated truck fleet. City Harvest, a food rescue organization dedicated to feeding New York City’s hungry, is the first Penske customer to commit to operate a fleet of hybrid trucks....
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Aug 22, 2008 9:12 AM
The American Trucking Associations has announced its support for a bipartisan comprehensive energy bill that calls for domestic oil drilling, tax incentives, and alternative energy research to lower the price of fuel for the nation’s 3.5 million truck drivers and American consumers....
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Aug 21, 2008 9:36 AM
General Motors and Navistar International have broken off their deal in which GM was to sell its medium-duty truck business to Navistar....
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Aug 20, 2008 11:25 AM
Subway, the world’s largest submarine sandwich franchise, has named C.H. Robinson Worldwide its Supply Chain Partner of the Year....
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Aug 19, 2008 10:28 AM
Cummins will add selective catalytic reduction (SCR) aftertreatment to its diesel engines for 2010....
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Aug 19, 2008 10:28 AM
President George W. Bush met August 12 with International Foodservice Distributors Association (IFDA) Chairman John Martin and IFDA President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Allen, along with other business leaders and trade group representatives who founded the Coalition for Affordable American Energy (CAAE)....
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Aug 18, 2008 9:12 AM
Mack Trucks and Volvo Trucks North America have jointly formulated a plan for increasing the efficiency of their North American operations....
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Aug 18, 2008 9:02 AM
Kenworth and Mack Trucks have ranked highest in satisfaction with dealer service in the latest Heavy-Duty Truck Customer Satisfaction Study, done annually by J. D. Power and Associates....
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Aug 14, 2008 10:51 AM
The latest data released by the United States Department of Transportation showed the eight month of steady decline in driving by American motorists. That trend, said agency officials, “signals an urgent need” for new highway financing....
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Aug 14, 2008 10:46 AM
Clougherty Packing/Farmer John of Los Angeles has been fined $63,300 in air pollution penalties by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for failure to comply with diesel truck emission requirements....
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Aug 11, 2008 10:47 AM
Clean Power Technologies Inc. has signed a memorandum of understanding with trans-Canadian freight trucking firm East West Express Inc. Under the MOU’s terms, East West will provide Clean Power with a Road Load Data Collection Vehicle for research on its refrigerated trailer fleet....
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Aug 7, 2008 10:36 AM
ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, a potato company with annual sales exceeding $2 billion, and Ochoa Foods, a privately owned potato processing company based in Boise ID, have entered into a new joint venture....
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Aug 6, 2008 9:16 AM
North Dakota does the best job maintaining its roads and bridges and New Jersey has the worst-performing, least cost-effective highway system in the nation, according to an annual Reason Foundation study....
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Aug 5, 2008 11:37 AM
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has posted an advisory on complying with its Transport Refrigeration Unit (TRU) Airborne Toxic Control Measure (ATCM)....
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Aug 5, 2008 11:37 AM
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is extending the cross-border trucking demonstration project for two years, and Mexican trucks will continue to participate....
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Aug 4, 2008 9:47 AM
Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partners Canada and Mexico was 6.8% higher this past May compared with May 2007, reaching $74.1 billion, reported the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)....
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Aug 4, 2008 9:47 AM
Two recognized fuel economy experts will be the featured speakers during a live webcast of “Help drivers help you survive the fuel crisis.”...
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Jul 31, 2008 9:28 AM
Frozen Food Express Industries has reported its first quarterly profit since 2006....
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Jul 30, 2008 9:54 AM
Mack Trucks Inc. has added a new section to its website, www.macktrucks.com, enabling customers to ask powertrain marketing manager David McKenna questions about the company’s EPA2010 solution featuring Selective Catalytic Reduction, or SCR....
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Jul 30, 2008 9:54 AM
A clean and historic break with the past is needed to encourage the future vitality of the nation’s transportation network, said United States Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters on July 29, in unveiling the Bush administration’s new plan to “refocus, reform, and renew” the national approach to highway and transit systems in America....
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Jul 28, 2008 9:59 AM
Cummins has concluded its joint diesel engine venture with two companies of Italy’s Fiat Group....
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Jul 28, 2008 9:59 AM
Hormel Foods Corporation broke ground July 25 on a new production facility in Dubuque IA....
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Jul 25, 2008 8:34 AM
The United States Environmental Protection Agency plans to award some $3.4 million in grants to establish projects using emerging technologies to reduce emissions from the nation’s fleet of diesel engines....
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Jul 25, 2008 8:26 AM
American Home Food Products, doing business as Artisanal Premium Cheese, has signed a distribution agreement with Coastal Sunbelt Produce, a leading supplier of fresh produce and specialty items in the Mid-Atlantic....
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Jul 24, 2008 9:52 AM
Minyard Food Stores Inc. has agreed to sell its Carnival Super Market brand and 37 of its stores to a group led by The Grocers Supply Company Inc....
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Jul 24, 2008 9:43 AM
An online calculator has been developed to allow companies to instantly see the fuel savings and environmental benefits made possible by switching from typical multi-use wood pallets to all-plastic pallets....
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Jul 23, 2008 11:04 AM
The number of public-private partnerships in the United States transportation sector has risen to record levels in recent years and continues to climb, a new study by the U.S. Department of Transportation finds....
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Jul 21, 2008 10:07 AM
KLLM Transport Services, a 45-year-old asset-based carrier headquartered in Jackson MS, has added a Logistics Services division to the company....
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Jul 21, 2008 10:07 AM
The United States Department of Energy and the Swedish Energy Agency have jointly awarded an $18 million, three-year grant to the Volvo Group for the development of hybrid technology and drivelines for alternative fuels....
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Jul 17, 2008 9:21 AM
Tyson Foods and Syntroleum Corporation have given final approval for plans to build and fund Dynamic Fuels’ first renewable synthetic fuels facility in Geismar LA....
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Jul 17, 2008 9:14 AM
Schneider National has been selected as a top intermodal provider for Nestlé USA....
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Jul 15, 2008 9:05 AM
Refrigerated carrier Jim Palmer Trucking and its two subsidiaries, Jim Palmer Equipment and Jim Palmer Equipment II, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court....
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Jul 14, 2008 9:49 AM
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) staff plans a series of workshops to discuss a proposed regulation to reduce emissions from existing diesel-fueled trucks, buses, and other vehicles operating in California....
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Jul 9, 2008 9:40 AM
By using cheaper, cleaner-burning propane to fuel its fleet of delivery trucks, Schwan’s Home Service has reduced America’s consumption of gas/diesel by 31 million gallons a year....
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Jul 9, 2008 9:40 AM
Commodity prices that have as much as doubled in the past six months have led Navistar International Corporation to increase prices on International trucks, effective immediately....
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Jul 8, 2008 8:39 AM
To locate the source of a salmonella outbreak, the United States Food and Drug Administration is beginning to test food other than tomatoes, including imported products....
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Jul 8, 2008 8:32 AM
Need to know where to buy E85 or other alternative fuels? The United States Department of Energy’s Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center now has an online station locator....
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Jul 3, 2008 8:44 AM
Hoffberger Holdings Inc. (HHI) has purchased from Duke Realty Corporation a parcel of land at the former Baltimore (MD) General Motors plant site, now known as the Chesapeake Commerce Center, to construct and operate one of the most environmentally friendly perishable foods distribution centers in the United States....
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Jul 2, 2008 9:54 AM
MCT Transportation, a full truckload carrier of general commodities for products requiring refrigerated services and dry goods, has expanded operations to include a new West Coast produce division and new lanes of service....
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Jul 2, 2008 9:54 AM
Despite concerns that a weakening economy, combined with ever-increasing fuel prices, would push safety to the bottom of the list for commercial fleets, vehicle safety inspections carried out on North America’s roadways found the lowest rate of out-of-service vehicles—23.9%—in two decades....
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Jun 30, 2008 12:56 PM
Cal-Maine Foods Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire the majority of the assets of Zephyr Egg Company, based in Zephyrhills FL....
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Jun 30, 2008 12:56 PM
DHL, with the support of a local Chicago-area business and community members, will deliver thousands of freshly frozen pizzas to United States servicemen and women serving throughout Iraq in time for July 4th Independence Day celebrations....
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Jun 26, 2008 9:09 AM
Sun Capital Partners Inc., a private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, announced that one of its affiliates has acquired Sunrise Growers~Frozsun Foods and its affiliates and subsidiaries....
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Jun 26, 2008 9:02 AM
Alanco Technologies Inc.’s StarTrak Systems subsidiary has introduced a new fuel usage data service feature for the Sentry ReeferTrak refrigerated trailer monitoring system....
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Jun 25, 2008 9:47 AM
Frozen Food Express Industries Inc. and FFE Transportation Services announced that the company will implement a charge to its shippers for the rapidly rising cost of refrigeration necessary in the transportation of temperature-controlled products....
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Jun 25, 2008 9:47 AM
Four leading berry producers—MBG Marketing, a Michigan-based blueberry grower; Hortifrut S.A. (HF), a berry-growing corporation based in Santiago, Chile; Munger Brothers Farms (MB) in Delano CA; and Pan-American Berry Growers LLC (PBG) of Salem OR—have banded together to form Naturipe Foods LLC....
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Jun 23, 2008 9:42 AM
GE SeaCo SRL, one of the world’s largest container leasing companies, has completed securing a number of financing agreements totaling $575 million....
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Jun 19, 2008 9:21 AM
TA Associates, a growth private equity and buyout firm, has sold control of Preferred Freezer Services LLC to Fenway Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, in partnership with management....
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Jun 19, 2008 9:14 AM
Voxware Inc., a supplier of software for voice-driven warehousing operations, announced that Performance Food Group (PFG), the third-largest foodservice distribution company in the United States, has successfully rolled out voice in five of its broadline distribution centers....
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Jun 17, 2008 10:01 AM
Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market and its suppliers have streamlined their distribution models to reduce direct store deliveries, which saves money on fuel. ...
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Jun 17, 2008 9:56 AM
Kangxin (KX) Logistics announced the opening of one of the largest refrigerated food warehouses in the People’s Republic of China....
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Jun 16, 2008 10:24 AM
Maines Paper & Food Service Inc. has expanded its Burger King account to include foodservice distribution to another 22 restaurants in the Maryland area....
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Jun 12, 2008 9:11 AM
Caterpillar Inc. and Navistar International Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to pursue global on-highway truck business opportunities and cooperate on a variety of engine platforms....
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Jun 11, 2008 11:00 AM
The United States Food and Drug Administration said it hoped to pinpoint soon the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes that has made at least 167 people ill in 17 states....
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Jun 9, 2008 10:15 AM
Appleton WI-based WOW Logistics is expanding its 307,000-square-foot distribution center in Jerome ID....
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Jun 9, 2008 10:15 AM
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. has acquired the shares of Desarollo Agroindustrial de Frutales S.A., a producer of bananas in Costa Rica; the shares of Frutas de Exportacion S.A., a major provider of gold pineapples in Costa Rica; and the shares of an affiliated sales and marketing company, collectively known as Caribana....
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Jun 6, 2008 8:39 AM
Sargento Cheese has presented the 2007 Core Carrier Award to Timon Perron Trucking....
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Jun 5, 2008 9:45 AM
Temperature-controlled logistics provider Merchants Terminal is implementing RedPrairie Corporation’s Warehouse Management Solution (WMS) to gain RF (radio frequency) capabilities, improve productivity, and inventory accuracy....
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Jun 2, 2008 10:58 AM
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is circulating draft regulations that would require sleeper-cab tractors and 53-foot box-type trailers operating on any highway in California be United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay-certified vehicles....
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Jun 2, 2008 10:58 AM
DRS Technologies Inc. has received a $16.2 million order to provide Multi-Temperature Refrigeration Container System (MTRCS) units to the United States Army’s Natick Soldier Systems Center at Natick MA....
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May 29, 2008 9:42 AM
Smithfield Foods Inc. has extended use of the CHEP pooling program to all shipments to take advantage of environmental and efficiency savings....
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May 29, 2008 9:36 AM
Monterey Gourmet Foods is expanding distribution of its Sonoma Cheese line of flavored Jack cheeses to nearly 400 more supermarkets nationwide....
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May 27, 2008 8:53 AM
Performance Food Group Company announced that its acquisition by affiliates of The Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management has been completed....
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May 27, 2008 8:48 AM
Glacier Fish Company LLC and Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd., through its wholly owned subsidiary Nippon Suisan (U.S.A.) Inc., announced the signing of an agreement to purchase Alaska Ocean Seafood LP (AOS)....
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May 22, 2008 9:32 AM
Memorial Day travelers may notice something different when they hit the highway. Escorted by hundreds of motorcyclists from North Carolina to Washington DC., the Freightliner Ride of Pride will make its seventh annual trip to the United States Capitol to honor veterans, POWs, and MIAs....
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May 21, 2008 9:56 AM
Aura Systems Inc. has acquired all of the transport refrigeration assets of Emerald Leasing of Atlanta GA....
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May 21, 2008 9:56 AM
Calavo Growers Inc. has acquired Hawaiian Sweet Inc. and Hawaii Pride LLC, papaya and tropical-product packing and processing operations on the Big Island....
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May 20, 2008 8:51 AM
Jevic Transportation, Inc, a less-than-truckload transportation services provider, has discontinued operations effective May 19, 2008....
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May 20, 2008 8:46 AM
United States Cold Storage plans to open a refrigerated warehouse in Lebanon IN during summer 2009....
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May 16, 2008 8:55 AM
The American Trucking Associations has assumed management of the Distribution and LTL Carriers Association, a Kansas City MO-based organization representing for-hire trucking firms engaged in local, regional, and interregional less-than-truckload freight shipments and warehousing....
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May 16, 2008 8:48 AM
Performance Food Group Company’s shareholders have voted to approve the proposed merger of the company with a wholly owned subsidiary of an affiliate of The Blackstone Group and Wellspring Capital Management LLC....
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May 14, 2008 9:41 AM
The American Trucking Associations is out in full force for National Transportation Week 2008, working hard to let the nation know that trucking is safer, more professional, and more essential than ever....
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May 14, 2008 9:41 AM
LaSalle Brands Corporation has announced a major expansion of distribution of its packaged super premium ice creams....
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May 12, 2008 9:36 AM
Effective immediately, the Reusable Pallet & Container Coalition (RPCC) will become the Reusable Packaging Association (RPA)....
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May 12, 2008 9:36 AM
Henningsen Cold Storage recently was selected by the Port of Benton to operate a new freight Transload Center in Richland WA....
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May 7, 2008 10:02 AM
ArvinMeritor Inc.’s board of directors has approved a plan to spin off its Light Vehicle Systems (LVS) business to ArvinMeritor shareholders, with the Commercial Vehicle Systems (CVS) business remaining with ArvinMeritor....
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May 7, 2008 10:02 AM
PakSense Inc. and YottaMark Inc. have joined forces to combine unit-level traceability with integrated time and temperature monitoring capabilities. A new time/temperature smart label, enhanced with the HarvestMark traceability system from YottaMark, is expected to be introduced in the third quarter of 2008....
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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....
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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....
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May 2, 2008 8:48 AM
Mattingly Foods has opened its new 48,000-square-foot refrigerated storage facility in Zanesville OH....
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Apr 30, 2008 9:47 AM
Dallas TX-based temperature-controlled carrier Frozen Food Express Industries Inc. (FFEX) announced its financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008....
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Apr 30, 2008 9:47 AM
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter, which ended March 28, 2008....
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Apr 28, 2008 10:03 AM
The American Trucking Associations will host a Fuel Strategies Workshop on June 19 to help the trucking industry cope with skyrocketing fuel prices....
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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....
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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....
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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....
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Apr 23, 2008 9:52 AM
Textainer Group Holdings Limited, the world’s largest lessor of intermodal containers based on fleet size, announced that Textainer Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the company, entered into a $205 million, five-year revolving credit agreement with a group of financial institutions....
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Apr 21, 2008 10:17 AM
IFCO Systems has signed an agreement for the acquisition of all shares of STECO Holding GmbH and its subsidiaries....
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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....
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Apr 17, 2008 9:35 AM
American Trucking Associations Chairman Ray Kuntz has asked a United States Senate panel to make fundamental changes to federal surface transportation programs to allow the trucking industry to more efficiently move freight....
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Apr 15, 2008 9:06 AM
Ryder System Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Gator Leasing Inc., a full-service truck leasing, commercial truck rental, and fleet services company headquartered in Miami FL....
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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....
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Apr 11, 2008 8:48 AM
Axcess International Inc. is offering the industry’s first Smart Wireless Sticker, which provides automatic item identification, locating, tracking, protecting, data logging, and condition sensing for items from up to 1,000 feet away at a cost of less than $10 each.
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Apr 11, 2008 8:41 AM
Greatwide Logistics Services, a Dallas TX-based provider of non-asset-based transportation and third-party logistics services, has acquired Wytheville VA-based Camrett Inc. and related companies....
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