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Coborn’s Taps Roberts For SVP, Center Store Merchandising

Coborn’s Inc. has appointed Kris Roberts as SVP of center store merchandising, a role she will transition into when Andy Knoblauch retires on March 1.  Roberts, who will work alongside Knoblauch for six months before his retirement, will be responsible for leading the company’s strategic merchandising initiatives in grocery, dairy, frozen, health and beauty and […]

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Jackson’s Shares Plan To Triple Sweet Potato Chips Production

Jackson’s has announced a plant expansion that will nearly triple its production capacity and add an additional 10,000 square feet of manufacturing space to the Muskego, Wisconsin-based company.    The expansion comes less than two years after Jackson’s opened its production facility, which the company believes to be “the first of its kind dedicated to only […]

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Diamond Crystal Salt Co. Introduces Fine Kosher Baking Salt

Diamond Crystal Salt Co. has introduced Fine Kosher Baking Salt, designed specifically for baking. The Minneapolis-based company said the salt’s finer-cut crystals dissolve, mix and blend faster and more evenly into batters and doughs than table salt. Using Cargill’s proprietary Alberger refinement process, the baking salt delivers increased flavor and is free of additives. The […]

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Post Holdings To Acquire Perfection Pet Foods

Post Holdings has agreed to acquire the assets of Perfection Pet Foods for $235 million.   Perfection is a manufacturer and packager of private label and co-manufactured pet food and baked treat products.  The acquisition includes two facilities in Visalia, California, which will provide Post Holdings with additional manufacturing capacity to source a portion of its […]

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Olive Oil Market Sees Little Decline Despite Higher Prices

While prices continue to rise and supplies are down from last year, the olive oil market is growing. High temperatures and drought in Spain have caused about a 50 percent decline in production, according to Mouna Aissaoui, EVP and COO at Baltimore-based Pompeian Inc.  “Although Spain is just one of the producing countries of olive oil, it […]