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Premium Brands Holdings Corp., Canada, announced that its Ferndale, Wash.-based subsidiary, Hempler Foods Group LLC, entered into an agreement to acquire Fletcher's Fine Foods (Fletcher’s US), Auburn, Wash.

Universal Pasteurization Co., a Lincoln, Neb.-based provider of high-pressure processing (HPP) services, will host the first dedicated HPP Summit, scheduled for Oct. 3-5 at the University of Nebraska Innovation Campus.

PLUS Location Systems, a Huntsville, Ala.-based provider of real-time location tracking and decision support solutions, announced a partnership with the Auburn University RFID Lab, Auburn, Ala., to provide RFID technologies to the supply chain and manufacturing industry.

Tall Tree Foods, a Milwaukee-based portfolio company of Altamont Capital Partners (Altamont), Palo Alto, Calif., acquired The January Co., a manufacturer of Chinese-style meat products based in Kent, Wash.

Target Corp. and Whole Foods Market keep grocery aisles warm by re-using the heat emitted by refrigeration systems as a natural by-product, thereby saving additional energy during cold months.

Morgan Corp., a Morgantown, Pa.-based manufacturer of medium-duty truck bodies for the refrigerated foods industry, announced plans to further expand its manufacturing footprint into the Midwest.

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Des Moines Cold Storage, Des Moines, Iowa, broke ground on a new 120,000-square-foot cold storage facility in Iowa.

Global demand for the cold chain equipment market was valued at $67 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach $ 118 billion in 2020 and grow at a CAGR of 9.8% between 2015 and 2020, according to a report published by Zion Market Research, Sarasota, Fla.