You've heard of one-stop shopping. But how about "one-stop sealing?" Heat and Control says its new Ishida QX tray sealer can seal almost any shape or size tray.
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC, Mountain Lakes, N.J., said it completed its $1.3 billion purchase of Birds Eye Foods Inc. from a holding company controlled by Vestar Capital Partners.
Birds Eye Foods' primary fruit and vegetable supplier Pro-Fac Cooperative, Inc., Fairport, N.Y., said it received a distribution of approximately $238 million from Birds Eye Holdings, LLC upon the closing of the sale of Birds Eye Foods, Inc. to the Pinnacle Foods Group.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Pinnacle Foods Group LLC, Mountain Lakes, N.J., agreed to purchase the nation's largest frozen vegetable processor, Birds Eye Foods, Rochester, N.Y., for $1.3 billion.
You've heard that the "secret's in the sauce." Now Allen's Inc., Siloam Springs, Ark., is expanding its SteamSupreme collection with seven new veggie and sauce blends.
One of the industry's largest suppliers of frozen potato, appetizer and vegetable products, ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, Eagle, Idaho, said it formed the "Lamb Weston Collaborative."
Although its focus was fresh produce on the menu, an industry survey of restaurant operators has some important learnings for frozen fruit and vegetable processors as well.
Frozen all-natural and organic steam vegetables and waffles are among those items in a new Nash Brothers Trading Company private label brand from wholesale retail distributor Nash Finch, Minneapolis.