The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that Akron's Main Street Gourmet was purchased by Clover Capital Partners LLC.

Frozen bakery and snacks leader J&J Snack Food Corp.,  Pennsauken, N.J., said it expects by the end of this May to buy ConAgra Foods' frozen hand-held products business.

Donatos Pizza, Columbus, Ohio, said it hired Alan Hoover as general manager of Jane’s Dough Foods, a division of Donatos.

ConAgra Foods, Omaha, Neb., said its CEO Gary Rodkin joined Lamb Weston President Jeff DeLapp, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and others to officially open ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston's new sweet potato processing plant in Delhi, La.

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.

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.

The state of Kentucky reported that The Kroger Co. will spend $10.6 million to add 50,000 square feet to its 177,000-square-foot Country Oven Bakery in Bowling Green, Ky.

CSM Bakery Supplies North America (CSM BSNA) Schaumburg, Ill., said it expects in March to acquire Best Brands Corp., a Minnetonka, Minn.-based supplier of frozen bakery goods and bakery ingredients.

Nestle USA's Baking Division said Wednesday that it will begin using heat-treated flour in the manufacture of its Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough.

Citing the loss of a major foodservice frozen dough customer, Sara Lee Corp., Downers Grove, Ill., said it plans to close  a Greenville, S.C., bakery.