Ohio ice cream manufacturer Velvet Ice Cream will celebrate its 100th birthday on May 1. Velvet started hand crafting ice cream in Utica, Ohio, in 1914. It will mark the milestone birthday with a series of announcements, specials, events and activities, beginning with the May 1 opening of Velvet’s Ye Olde Mill to the public for […]
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American Frozen Food Institute Elects New Board Leadership
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) has elected three officers and nine members to the AFFI board of directors. The elections took place at the AFFI annual meeting and keynote breakfast Monday, held in conjunction with the 2014 AFFI Frozen Food Convention in San Diego, Calif. The newly-elected AFFI officers are: Dave Yanda of Lakeside […]
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Jack’s Link’s To Buy Unilever Meat Snack Business
Jack Link’s plans to purchase Unilever’s meat snacks business, primarily sold under the BiFi brand (Germany, Benelux, Austria and Switzerland) and the Peperami brand (U.K. and Ireland). The sale is expected to close by the end of March. Terms of the deal, announced Friday, were not disclosed. The transaction, subject to customary closing conditions, also […]
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GoGo squeeZ Plans $85M Manufacturing Facility In Idaho
Materne North America—the makers of GoGo squeeZ Applesauce On the Go—plans to make an $85 million investment in a new food processing facility that will create a minimum of 230 new jobs in Idaho’s Treasure Valley. The new state-of-the-art facility—the company’s second U.S. location—will be housed at a site formerly owned by Micron Technology Inc., at […]
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Mondelez International To Invest $130M In U.S. Biscuit Manufacturing Network
Mondelez International plans to invest more than $130 million in new biscuit manufacturing technology and capabilities in its current U.S. network. The investment will focus on bakeries in Fair Lawn, N.J., and Richmond, Va., supporting priority cookie and cracker brands and product platforms. To enable this investment, the company says it will consolidate its current […]
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Anheuser-Busch Acquiring Blue Point Brewing Co.
Anheuser-Busch has agreed to purchase Blue Point Brewing Co., one of the nation’s top craft brewers with more than 40 beers and sales concentrated along the East Coast, in a move that will bring additional resources to Blue Point’s operations, allowing it to meet growing consumer demand for its award-winning brands. Terms of the agreement […]
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Uncle Charley’s Sausage Purchased By Pittsburgh Investors
Pittsburgh-based investors F.N.B. Capital Partners, along with a group of local investors, including Jim Rudolph and Len Caric, have acquired the region’s fastest growing meat processing company, Uncle Charley’s Sausage Co. The investors say they plan to increase funding to expand the business while keeping its unique brand value, leadership, Vandergrift, Pa.-based manufacturing facilities and […]
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Waybright Hired As King Arthur Flour Regional Sales, Marketing Manager
King Arthur Flour has hired David Waybright as regional sales and marketing manager for the upper Midwest region. Waybright leaves a sales and marketing position at HJ Heinz he has held since 2004 to join America’s oldest flour company. “Joining King Arthur Flour is an opportunity to join a company that has been successful for over 200 […]