Houchens Industries Inc., a diversified, $3 billion private company, said it purchased Chicago's Tampico Beverages Inc. in an undisclosed cash deal.

Hormel Foods Corp. broke ground on a new $89 million production facility in Dubuque, Iowa.

Stellar, a Jacksonville, Fla., design, engineering and construction firm, said it finished building a 130,000-sq.-ft. meat processing plant in Seminole, Okla., for Sigma Alimentos SA de C.V.

Kraft Foods Inc., Glenview, Ill., said that it broke ground on the expansion of its frozen pizza manufacturing plant in Little Chute, Wis.

The H. J. Heinz Company announced that it broke ground on a new $105 million frozen food facility in Florence, S.C.

What are consumers most concerned about in terms of health and nutrition?

The United Soybean Board (USB) put that question at the forefront of its 14th annual nationwide survey.

“Never stop learning,” is a phrase one often hears repeated by successful businessmen. The reason? No one is equipped with the knowledge to solve every problem or conquer every obstacle.

If pork is the “other white meat” and beef is “what’s for dinner” - what is soy?

According to industry experts, soy is becoming, well, just about everything.

Keystone Foods LLC, West Conshohocken, Pa., expects to double frozen chicken and beef processing once it relocates from a 75,000-sq.-ft. plant in Gadsden, Ala., to a larger 184,000-sq.-ft. facility.

Just weeks after purchasing a majority stake in one of India's largest poultry companies, Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., acquired a 60-percent stake in one of China's largest poultry processors.