Refrigerated and frozen soup and seafood processor Blount Fine Foods, Fall River, Mass., said it promoted Robert Sewall to executive vice president of sales and marketing.
Pork and turkey processing giant Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., said Richard J. M. Poulson, executive vice president, will retire from Smithfield effective September 1, 2010.
Bumble Bee Foods LLC, San Diego, said it agreed to sell a former sardine processing plant in Prospect Harbor, Me., to mail order foods supplier Live Lobster Co. Inc.
GE Capital, Corporate Finance, Norwalk, Conn., said it is collateral agent for a $120 million asset-based credit facility to fresh and frozen seafoods processor Ocean Beauty Seafoods, LLC.
Officials for the American Meat Institute (AMI), the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and the United Fresh Produce Association (UFPA) said they will co-locate their trade shows.
Foodservice meat processor and distributor Diamond Ranch Foods, Ltd., New York, N.Y., said it agreed to purchase Executive Seafood, Inc., a Bronx, N.Y., seafood wholesaler.