Annie’s, a leading natural and organic food company, has completed the acquisition of Safeway’s snack manufacturing plant in Joplin, Mo., which has been Annie’s primary manufacturer of cookie and cracker products since the inception of its snacks business in 2002. Annie’s Baking, a subsidiary of Annie’s, acquired the plant for $6.0 million, plus the actual […]
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Wisconsin Claims Top Awards Total At World Cheese Contest
Wisconsin cheesemakers dominated the competition at the recent World Championship Cheese Contest, winning 106 awards—about 39 percent—of the total 273 awards given, including 38 Best of Class, 34 second place and 34 third place awards. Wisconsin’s accomplishment represented five times the number of awards as those won by the closest competitor, Switzerland with 21. Switzerland […]
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Mars Chocolate Opens Production Facility In Topeka
Mars Chocolate North America officially opened the doors of a new, state-of-the-art facility in Topeka, Kan., on Thursday. The approximately 500,000-s.f. facility—the first new Mars Chocolate North America site built in the last 35 years—will help sustainably produce M&M’S and Snickers. “This new $270 million facility, which will bring 200 new jobs to Topeka, is […]
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Meijer Adds Features To Digital Shopping Tool App
Meijer has added features to its mPerks program that allows customers to store digital receipts from purchases in a single place and details exactly how much they’ve saved by shopping at the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer. With more than $100 million saved by mPerks subscribers since 2010, Meijer says it is among the first retailers […]
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Russ’s Lincoln Wine & Food Experience Raises Record Amount
Supporters of the Lincoln Community Playhouse in Nebraska raised a record $43,550.56 at last month’s 2014 Lincoln Wine & Food Experience. The event, presented by Russ’s Market, has now raised more than $200,000 total for the playhouse in its six years of existence. Nearly 900 people attended this year’s event held at Embassy Suites. The […]
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Flowers Licenses Rights To Wonder, Home Pride Breads To Aunt Millie’s In Parts Of MW
Flowers Foods has signed an agreement that gives Aunt Millie’s Bakeries of Fort Wayne, Ind., the exclusive license to produce and market Wonder and Home Pride breads in northwest Indiana; northern Illinois, including Chicago; and southern Wisconsin. Terms and conditions of the license agreement were not disclosed. With the agreement, Wonder and Home Pride breads […]
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Dole, Meijer Partner To Donate Salad Bars To Five Midwest Schools
Committed to increasing healthier options for students, Dole Food Co. and Meijer have partnered to donate salad bars to public schools in Detroit, Mich., Cincinnati, Ohio, and South Bend, Ind. These self-serve produce bars’ array of fresh fruits and vegetables will boost the number of healthy choices available to students at breakfast and lunch. “Since […]
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Ohio’s Velvet Ice Cream Turns 100 This Year
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 […]