For the first time ever, a social media-led story ranked as the most memorable story of the year, with news of the “Fast Food Chicken Sandwich Throwdown On Twitter” ranking as 2019's No. 1 food news story, according to the HUNTER Annual Food News Study, released by Hunter Public Relations, New York.

Albertsons Cos., Boise, Idaho, and Takeoff Technologies, Waltham, Mass., teamed up to collaborate on the future of grocery micro-fulfillment centers (MFC) to drive the future of e-commerce order fulfillment.

JUST (Eat JUST, Inc.), London, announced the expansion of its protein manufacturing operations to include the acquisition of a 30,000-square-foot facility and 40 acres of land in Appleton, Minn.

Zippin, San Francisco, closed $12 million in Series A funding led by Evolv Ventures, a Chicago-based venture fund created by Kraft Heinz, Pittsburgh, Pa.

TrueCommerce, Cranberry Township, Pa., acquired Netalogue Technologies plc, a UK-based provider of B2B e-commerce solutions.

Wegmans Food Markets, Rochester, N.Y., announced plans to invest $175 million to establish a full-service, regional distribution operation in Ashland, Va., creating 700 new jobs.

Consumers aren’t eating as well as they’d like to, and that’s an opportunity for growth in consumer packaged goods (CPG), according to a report from Nielsen, New York.

Investors increasingly are warming up to the U.S. cold storage warehousing sector, pushing cap rates for class A facilities closer to those of traditional high-quality warehouses, according to a new report from CBRE, Los Angeles.

Volume at major container ports bumped up significantly in November, as retailers imported merchandise ahead of new tariffs set to take effect this month, according to the Global Port Tracker report released by the National Retail Federation, Washington, D.C., and Hackett Associates, Alexandria, Va.

Nestlé S.A., Switzerland, reached an agreement to sell its U.S. ice cream business to Froneri for $4 billion.