United States Cold Storage (USCS), Voorhees, N.J., broke ground for a Phase 2 addition at a public refrigerated warehouse in Lebanon, Ind.

After 121 years, the International Association of Refrigerated Warehouses (IARW) and World Food Logistics Organization (WFLO) Convention & Expo is still the world’s largest public refrigerated warehousing and logistics event.

Columbus (Ohio) Business First reported that Minneapolis retailer Target Corp. received an eight-year, 60-percent tax credit from Ohio to build a planned $100 million packaged foods distribution center.

The Yucaipa Companies LLC, Los Angeles, said it raised $375 million in new equity funding to complete its purchase of Versacold International Corp.

Campanelli Companies, Braintree, Mass., said it expects by fall 2011 to build a 141,521-square-foot cold storage facility in Linden, N.J. for Preferred Freezer Services.

Public refrigerated warehousing giant VersaCold, Vancouver, B.C., held a lunch and ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the business' Tacoma, Wash., distribution center.

Convenience store retailer 7-Eleven Inc., Dallas, said it hired Jesus H. Delgado-Jenkins as senior vice president of merchandising and logistics.

To provide greater efficiency in customer service, Stellar, a Jacksonville, Fla., construction, design, engineering and mechanical services firm, has expanded its existing Refrigeration division to include the company’s Maintenance, Parts and Operations and Automation Services divisions.