Meat, poultry and prepared foods giant Hormel Foods Corporation, Austin, Minn., said it promoted Scott Aakre to vice president of corporate innovation and new product development.

Foodservice distributor Jake’s Finer Foods, Houston, said it expects by April  to purchase certain assets of Gourmet Ranch.

Tyson Foods Inc. said its Springdale, Ark., poultry processing neighbor, George's Inc., agreed to buy Tyson's Harrisonburg, Va., poultry operations for an undisclosed amount.

Poultry processor Townsends, Inc., Georgetown, Del., said it received final approval from the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware to sell substantially all of its assets.

Wanting to address industry concerns about its upcoming April convention and exhibition, the American Meat Institute issued a press statement today from AMI President J. Patrick Boyle.

Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Toronto, said it will close a prepared meats facility located in Surrey, British Columbia, on September 30, 2011.

Perdue Incorporated, Salisbury, Md., said it is the nation's first poultry processor to receive a federal seal of verification for its chicken feeding practices.

A "titan." A "true pioneer." Those were just a few ways poultry industry executives remembered Don Tyson, upon hearing of the death yesterday (Jan. 6, 2011) of Tyson Foods' former chairman and CEO.

Poultry, beef and pork processing giant Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., said the company entrepreneurial former Chairman and CEO Donald J. Tyson, died today, Thursday, January 6, 2011.

Diversified foods giant Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Toronto, said it plans by May 2011 to close its prepared meats facility in Berwick, Nova Scotia.