Ithaca Hummus introduces its new flavor, Buffalo Ranch Hummus. To celebrate the rollout, Ithaca is offering consumers a limited-series Buffalo Ranch Big Game Day Kit, shipped directly to homes nationwide in support of an epic game day spread—no matter who you're rooting for.

Lineage Logistics announced the acquisition of Cryo-Trans, North America’s leading provider of refrigerated and insulated railcars and rail management solutions. This industry-first partnership creates a uniquely comprehensive and seamlessly integrated supply chain solution for food and beverage customers. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

How Greenleaf Foods has evolved its Lightlife and Field Roast brands to stand out in a crowded plant-based foods category.

Leonardo’s Produce (“Leonardo’s”), a distributor of fresh produce and specialty products, joined FreshEdge, a family of produce and specialty food companies backed by Rotunda Capital Partners, further diversifying the group’s combined customer base and increasing its breadth and depth of service offerings in Michigan and Ohio. Leonardo’s joins a growing family that includes Piazza Produce & Specialty Foods, Indianapolis Fruit, Get Fresh, McCartney Produce, Garden Cut, Cibus Fresh and Papania’s.

Honor Foods, a Burris Logistics company, is in the final stage of moving its current Philadelphia operation from its North 5th Street location to a new warehouse at 5505 Tacony Street. The final day of business in its current location will be Thursday, January 7, preparing for a Monday, January 11 opening of the new warehouse. Honor Foods worked closely with the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation to identify a suitable site within the city, eventually choosing a 20-acre parcel sitting within the former Frankford Military Arsenal site that closed in 1977.

With the final FSMA IA rule in effect for small businesses since July and large businesses a year before that, coupled with changes to the food supply chain in response to the pandemic, risk assessment and mitigation should be a priority now more than ever. For the refrigeration and frozen food industry specifically, changes have also evolved with the implementation of the Sanitary Transportation rule.

Hormel announced the opening of its newest production facility, Papillion Foods, located in Papillion, Neb., which will make salami and dry sausage products under the Columbus Craft Meats brand as well as the company's Hormel brand.

Danone North America, the purpose-driven food & beverage leader with a diverse portfolio of dairy and plant-based brands, continues to expand its regenerative farming program, currently the most comprehensive regenerative agriculture dairy program in the U.S. 

Dedeaux Properties has sold a 290,368-square-foot cold storage and food processing portfolio to a global real estate services company for an undisclosed price. The portfolio, which is made up of four central Los Angeles-area assets ranging in size from 38,000 to 111,000 square feet, were part of a larger industrial portfolio acquired by the Dedeaux-led joint venture in 2016. Each property was 100% leased at closing.

About a month ago, we received an inquiry from a government contractor asking if our company, Yukon Ventures, would be interested in a top-secret cold storage opportunity. We read between the lines and understood that the contractor was talking about the rollout of the new COVID-19 vaccine, a subject dominating headlines everywhere.