Pittsburgh, Pa., retailer Giant Eagle Inc. opened a refrigerated foods plant in Freedom, Pa., to process and supply refrigerated fresh-cut fruit, soups and other products to area stores.
At its 66th annual membership meeting in San Francisco, the National Frozen & Refrigerated Foods Association (NFRA) appointed H.V. “Skip” Shaw, Jr. as group's president and CEO.
Blount Fine Foods, a processor of refrigerated and frozen soups and seafood products, said that a plant expansion underway at its Fall River, Mass., headquarters now will include a 100kW solar electric system.
Meat, poultry and prepared foods giant Hormel Foods Corporation, Austin, Minn., said it promoted Steven G. Binder to executive vice president of refrigerated foods.
Although Kraft Foods sold the nation's largest frozen pizza business to fund its Cadbury purchase earlier this year, the company considers refrigerated and frozen products important to the company's portfolio.
Artisan and premium cheese processor Sartori Foods, Plymouth, Wis., said it purchased Tellory Inc., a Boulder County, Colo., processor of premium Ciolo and Piccolo refrigerated retail pesto, dips and spreads.
Store brand products can compete with their name-brand counterparts and save shoppers more than a thousand dollars a year on grocery bills, according to a new study from Consumer Reports.
