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Ornua, Ireland’s largest premium dairy cooperative, has announced a major expansion of its Ornua Ingredients North America division with a $10 million investment upgrading its Hilbert, Wisconsin, cheese ingredients operation. Investment will add 30% production capacity to cheese making plant. With this major announcement, Ornua has now invested $23 million total in the Hilbert operation.

Garrett Valley Farms, a family-owned, all-natural and organic meat company, has expanded its line of sugar-free products with the introduction of its Organic Sugar-Free Uncured Turkey Bacon. The product is the latest Garrett Valley Farms product to be certified organic by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

Breyers announces the brand's latest collaboration with Cinnabon, makers of the World Famous Cinnamon Rolls. Available on store shelves nationwide, new Breyers Cinnabon Bakery-Inspired Frozen Dairy Dessert features gooey cinnamon swirled throughout with a sweet cinnamon flavored base and mixed with delicious dough bites.

PENN Connected – Digital Food Safety from Johnson Controls replaces clipboards with digital tools to help retail, food service and manufacturing organizations adapt to today’s unique food safety standards. The digital compliance management solution manages data monitoring, recording and reporting to ensure food is stored, prepared and consumed in a safe manner. The configurable and easy-to-use platform improves HACCP compliance, saves time and money and provides enterprise-wide insights that can be generated with just a few clicks of a button.

Mochidoki's direct-to-consumer website has launched two-day shipping in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah, expanding their delivery zones to the Western US for the first time. The nationally-renowned brand now ships to 27 states.

Sweet Earth Foods, an award-winning and rapidly growing plant-based food innovator, today announced the release of its Awesome Bacon Burger, a first-of-its-kind in the plant-based category. The delicious new burger extends the plant-based food makers’ portfolio just in time for grilling season, as nearly 40 percent of Americans are trying to eat more plant-based foods (Nielsen).

Refrigerated & Frozen Foods catches up with Reser’s Fine Foods to find out how the company has expanded and enhanced its product lines and processing facilities since being featured on our January, 2012 cover.

Perfect Snacks, makers of fresh-from-the-fridge protein snacks, is giving customers across the country another reason to hit the fridge and enjoy the sunshine, this summer, with the launch of two, limited-edition flavors: Lemon Poppy Seed and Cherry Pie. Both flavors will be available online at perfectsnacks.com, and sold in a 12-bar Summer Variety Pack.

Marco Sweets & Spices, a craft ice cream company that creates culinary-inspired flavors rooted in a love for travel, debuts five flavors that celebrate diverse, global ingredients. A collaborative effort from food and beverage industry veterans Luke Christianson, Avery Henderson, Julian Plyter, a pastry veteran of Eleven Madison Park and founder of New York City’s Melt Bakery, and Spencer Joynt, partner and creative director at Alright Studio, Marco was founded to pay homage to beloved flavors from around the world, and transport them from plate to pint. 

Plant-based food sales were already growing before COVID-19, and the category has long enjoyed a healthy halo around its products as beneficial to both consumers and the environment. However, a closer look at some of the labels for plant-based meats, for example, reveal they’re not much healthier than their animal-based counterparts, particularly when it comes to saturated fat, sodium, and the highly processed method of re-creating the taste and texture of an animal protein. Because of this, we’re currently on the cusp of a second era in alternative meats that will continue to focus on flavor, but also honor their “better-for-you” halos with simpler ingredients and minimal processing.