Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., announced a realignment of its organization and key senior management appointments that unify all of its independent operating companies, brands, marketing and more than 48,000 employees around the world under one corporate umbrella.
The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc., a Ridgefield, Conn., distributor of specialty food products, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets and certain equity interests of Del Monte Capitol Meat Co.
Creation Gardens, Inc., a Louisville, Ky.-based wholesale food distributor of quality products such as produce, gourmet food, dairy, meats and restaurant staple items, acquired Mattingly Foods, a high-quality meat provider also headquartered in Louisville, Ky.
Australian beef processor Kilcoy Pastoral Co. (KPC) reached a definitive agreement to buy what is said to be Chicago’s oldest operating beef processor, Ruprecht Co., Mundelein, Ill.
