The Institute of Food Technologists presented an "Industrial Achievement Award" to ConAgra Foods, Omaha, Neb., for its Healthy Choice Café Steamers product platform.
J&J Snack Foods Corp., Pennsauken, N.J., said Vincent Melchiorre, an executive vice president with the company's food group and the president of Country Home Bakers, Shelton, Conn., will resign effective September 3, 2010.
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC, Mountain Lakes, N.J., said it hired kirshenbaum bond senecal & partners, New York, N.Y., to handle creative duties for the Birds Eye Frozen Division.
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI), McLean, Va., said it hired Corey N. Henry as vice president of communications and Jane D. Pritchett is AFFI’s new manager of accounting.
Sonoco, Hartsville, S.C., said it acquired Associated Packaging Technologies, Inc. (APT), North America's largest manufacturer and supplier of crystallized polyethylene terepthalate (CPET) containers to the frozen food industry.
Private label foods giant Ralcorp Holdings, Inc., St. Louis, said it purchased Sepp's Gourmet Foods Ltd., a frozen breakfast foods company based in Delta, B.C., Canada.
Frozen bakery and prepared foods are key growth areas for Swiss global bakery foods giant Aryzta AG, which expected by July to complete two acquisitions valued at $1.08 billion.
Private equity investor Revelry Brands, Boulder, Colo., said has funded its second investment into Phil's Fresh Foods LLC, a Boulder producer of EVOL Burritos (EVOL).