PaperTech, a leading manufacturer of paperboard packaging products to the frozen food industry and foodservice markets, has been acquired by May River Capital, a Midwest-based private equity firm focused on helping high-caliber industrial businesses grow and prosper. Founded in 1999 by Larry Epstein and Al Fotheringham and based in Bingham Farms, Michigan, PaperTech has more than two decades of […]
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Hormel Foods Opens Its Newest Production Facility In Papillion, Nebraska
Hormel Foods Corp. soon will open its newest production facility, Papillion Foods, located in Papillion, Nebraska, which will make dry sausage products for the company. “We are excited to be opening up this facility to not only help meet the demand for our branded sausage products, but also provide fantastic career opportunities in our community,” said Ed […]
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Lipari Foods Finalizes Acquisition Of Tut’s International
On Dec. 31, Lipari Foods, a specialty food distributor based in Warren, Michigan, closed on the acquisition of the Middle Eastern and Eastern European food business of Tut’s International that includes brands such as Dobrova, Shahia and Lebanon Valley. Tut’s International is headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan. This opportunity expands Lipari’s product breadth in its international […]
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Market Profile: COVID-19 Struck And So Did Fresh 3Bros Stroopwafels
Unsurprisingly, the biggest challenge for Fayetteville, Georgia-based 3Bros Stroopwafels was generating sales during a time of uncertainty – the COVID-19 outbreak. “In March, we had just finished building our commercial bakery in Fayetteville,” said Leslie Vliegen, who owns 3Bros with husband Guido. “We entered the market at a particularly difficult time. Fortunately, our stroopwafels are […]
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Mtn Dew Partners With Burton Snowboards On One World Project
Mtn Dew and Burton Snowboards have united to launch One World, a partnership that brings both brands together around shared values of creativity, progression and sustainability in an effort to inspire others to reduce their impact. The One World project includes a full-length feature film and a limited-edition capsule collection of hard and soft goods. […]
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Merit Logistics Promotes Vern Malpass To Chief Operating Officer
Merit Logistics, a San Juan Capistrano, California-based national third-party warehouse services provider, has appointed Vern Malpass to chief operations officer (COO). Effective immediately, Malpass will oversee Merit Logistics’ operations, safety and business development divisions. As Merit Logistics’ new COO, Malpass will apply expertise gained from over 20 years of hands-on warehouse and logistics experience. “I […]
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Market Profile: Great American Cobbler Co. Helps Farmers Sell Crops
by Mary Margaret Stewart / staff writer The Great American Cobbler Co. – a majority woman-owned, family-owned, American-owned cobbler and pot pie business – is new to Homerville, Georgia. But it’s not new to the state – actually, far from it. Member/manager of GACC Russ Goodman is a seventh-generation South Georgia blueberry farmer. One of […]
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Will Growth Of E-Commerce Change In-Store Experience?
by Cindy Sorensen / founder, The Grocery Group Unless you were living under a rock in 2020, it was impossible to go an entire day without seeing an article or newsclip about the role of e-commerce in 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic – and shoppers’ reluctance to fulfill their grocery needs through a brick-and-mortar […]