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	JBS Appoints Gilberto Tomazoni to Succeed Founder São Paulo, Brazil-headquartered JBS S.A. has named Gilberto Tomazoni as its new chief executive officer. The former chief operating officer replaces Jose Batista Sobrinho, who founded the world’s

	Chef One Rolls Nationally and Unveils New Online Look Brooklyn, New York-based Chef One Foods has engaged redistributor Dot Foods to make its range of frozen egg rolls, Chinese dumplings, potstickers and other dim sum more accessible to foodservice

	Del Bosque Shaves Whiskers for Pescanova; Maze Joins Team The Chapela, Spain-headquartered Nueva Pescanova Group, a leading international seafood company and one of the world’s largest producers of shrimp, has enlisted Vicente del Bosque to star in its

	Stavis Gets Green Light to Develop Boston Waterfront Site Stavis Seafoods, a vertically integrated importer and manufacturer of value-added frozen and fresh seafood products, has received approval from the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) to

	Raybern’s Debuts New Line of Grilled Cheese Sandwiches San Ramon, California-headquartered Raybern’s has introduced six heat-and-serve grilled cheese sandwiches that are now available in the frozen food aisles of Walmart stores and rolling out to other

	BFFF Chief Executive Foresees Solid Growth Again in 2019 This year has been a period of great success for the frozen food industry in the United Kingdom, reports John Hyman, chief executive of the British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF), as value growth

	Idaho Potato Commission Names Alan Kahn Foodservice VP Alan Kahn has been hired as vice president of foodservice for the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC). He is responsible for developing and implementing campaigns to boost consumption of Idaho grown

	FSI Deal Gives Bellisio Hot Slice of Frozen Pizza Market Bellisio Foods, Inc., part of the Bangkok, Thailand-headquartered Charoen Pokphand Group Foods (CP Foods), has entered into a definitive agreement with Swander Pace Capital to purchase Frozen

	Tyson Finalizes Keystone Foods Acquisition from Marfrig Tyson Foods, Inc. has completed the $2.16 billion purchase of Keystone Foods from São Paulo, Brazil-based Marfrig Global Foods. Keystone is a major supplier of chicken, beef, fish and pork to the

	Yili Scoops Up Ice Cream Maker Chomthana in Thailand The Yili Group, China’s leading dairy foods business, has acquired Chomthana, a major ice cream producer and distributor in Thailand. The $6.4 million transaction was consummated in Bangkok on

	Food Inventory Builds Along with No-Deal Brexit Prospects As British Prime Minister Theresa May struggles to push through Parliament the Brexit deal she brought home from Brussels, the real possibility of a no-deal Brexit alternative continues to worry

	Potato Processors Face Spud Shortages in Most of Canada Manufacturers of frozen french fries and other value-added potato products in Canada are currently coping with a shortfall of tubers as approximately 15,000 acres of cropland were abandoned because

	AquaBounty Names Sylvia Wulf as Chief Executive Officer AquaBounty Technologies, Inc., a biotechnology enterprise focused on boosting productivity in the North American aquaculture market and a majority-owned subsidiary of Intrexon Corporation (NASDAQ:

	CEBA Built by the Best Award Goes to Fisher Construction Fisher Construction Group is the winner of the Controlled Environment Building Association (CEBA) Built by the Best Award for its project with NewCold in Tacoma, Washington, USA. The award was

	Greencore US Acquisition Adds Frozens to Hearthside Menu Hearthside Food Solutions, a Downers Grove, Illinois-based contract manufacturer, has completed the purchase of Greencore US. Formerly an American unit of Greencore Group plc, a Dublin,

	Investments Enhance McCain Potato Processing in Manitoba McCain Foods (Canada), a division of McCain Foods Limited, is investing $75 million in infrastructure projects at Portage la Prairie and Carberry, Manitoba factories to further strengthen its

	CP Foods’ Overseas Operations Drive Solid Sales Results Revenues generated by Bangkok, Thailand-headquartered Charoen Pokphand Foods PCL (CP Foods) amounted to Bt398.261 billion during the first nine months of 2018. The figure is up by 7% compared to

	Birds Eye UK Veggie Bowls Promotion Gearing Up in January Birds Eye will boost the promotion of its recently launched line of meat-free frozen ready meals in the United Kingdom with a video-on-demand digital campaign in January. The timing will coincide...

	Greenyard Posts Results Following Challenging First Half An adverse one-two-three punch of bad weather, costly product recalls and heightened market pressure negatively impacted the first-half 2018-19 financial performance of Sint-Katelijne-Waver,

	Ardo Upgrades Factories with PolarVision Technology Ardo, which ranks among the world’s largest producers and marketers of frozen vegetable, fruit and herb products, has invested in the latest SORTEX F optical sorters from Bühler – the

	Pidy Extends Seasonal Themed Christmas Pastry Assortment With the temperature dropping in Europe and North America and chefs on both sides of the Atlantic now in the midst of Christmas menu planning, Ieper, Belgium-headquartered Pidy Gourmet is offering

	Frozens Warm Up ‘Turkey Day’ for US Troops Far from Home As the old adage goes: “An Army marches on its stomach.” While it’s not certain if it was Frederick the Great or Napoleon Bonaparte who said it first, one can be sure that the Pentagon’s brass hats

	Almost 10% of Americans Will Dine Out on Thanksgiving Foodservice operators in the United States should be prepared for better than normal business on November 22, because more consumers than ever will supplement their traditional Thanksgiving feast

	Seafood Connection Buys Frozen Fish Business from Anova Urk, Holland-headquartered Seafood Connection, a subsidiary of Japan’s Maruha Nichiro, has reached an agreement to acquire Anova Seafood’s frozen fish operation. Terms of the transaction, which

	New Plant in Australia Boosts TNA Manufacturing Capacity TNA, a Sydney, Australia-headquartered food processing and packaging equipment maker, has officially opened a state-of-the-art factory to support global demand for high performance food packaging