Food Distributors

Food Distributors provides current news, business and industry trends, and innovative practices of food service and distribution companies, with wholesale and retail coverage. Developments affecting agricultural produce requiring temperature-controlled treatment and other perishable items are included, as well as dairies, supermarkets, and convenience stores.

Food Distributors

FDA's salmonella probe
expands beyond tomatoes
Jul 8, 2008 8:39 AM

To locate the source of a salmonella outbreak, the United States Food and Drug Administration is beginning to test food other than tomatoes, including imported products....

MCT Transporation forms
new division for produce
Jul 2, 2008 9:54 AM

MCT Transportation, a full truckload carrier of general commodities for products requiring refrigerated services and dry goods, has expanded operations to include a new West Coast produce division and new lanes of service....

Cal-Maine Foods agrees
to acquire Zephyr Egg
Jun 30, 2008 12:56 PM

Cal-Maine Foods Inc. has reached an agreement to acquire the majority of the assets of Zephyr Egg Company, based in Zephyrhills FL....

Sun Capital affiliate
acquires Sunrise ops
Jun 26, 2008 9:09 AM

Sun Capital Partners Inc., a private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, announced that one of its affiliates has acquired Sunrise Growers~Frozsun Foods and its affiliates and subsidiaries....

Four producers form
a ‘berry’ strong group
Jun 25, 2008 9:47 AM

Four leading berry producers—MBG Marketing, a Michigan-based blueberry grower; Hortifrut S.A. (HF), a berry-growing corporation based in Santiago, Chile; Munger Brothers Farms (MB) in Delano CA; and Pan-American Berry Growers LLC (PBG) of Salem OR—have banded together to form Naturipe Foods LLC....

Maines adds restaurants
to Burger King account
Jun 16, 2008 10:24 AM

Maines Paper & Food Service Inc. has expanded its Burger King account to include foodservice distribution to another 22 restaurants in the Maryland area....

FDA investigates source
of salmonella outbreak
Jun 11, 2008 11:00 AM

The United States Food and Drug Administration said it hoped to pinpoint soon the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes that has made at least 167 people ill in 17 states....

Fresh Del Monte Produce
acquires Caribana ops
Jun 9, 2008 10:15 AM

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. has acquired the shares of Desarollo Agroindustrial de Frutales S.A., a producer of bananas in Costa Rica; the shares of Frutas de Exportacion S.A., a major provider of gold pineapples in Costa Rica; and the shares of an affiliated sales and marketing company, collectively known as Caribana....

Sargento salutes Perron
for moving its cheese
Jun 6, 2008 8:39 AM

Sargento Cheese has presented the 2007 Core Carrier Award to Timon Perron Trucking....

Dean Foods to close dairy processing plant
Jun 1, 2008 12:00 PM

Texas-based Dean Foods Company plans to close its Fairmont Products dairy processing plant in Belleville PA in October 2008. About 80 employees will lose...

Food Service

Schneider National goes
the distance with Nestlé
Jul 17, 2008 9:14 AM

Schneider National has been selected as a top intermodal provider for Nestlé USA....

PFG rolls out voice
at five distribution sites
Jun 19, 2008 9:14 AM

Voxware Inc., a supplier of software for voice-driven warehousing operations, announced that Performance Food Group (PFG), the third-largest foodservice distribution company in the United States, has successfully rolled out voice in five of its broadline distribution centers....

Supermarkets

Fresh & Easy streamlines
its distribution operations
Jun 17, 2008 10:01 AM

Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market and its suppliers have streamlined their distribution models to reduce direct store deliveries, which saves money on fuel. ...

Publix plans to acquire
49 Albertson’s stores
Jun 16, 2008 10:24 AM

Publix Super Markets Inc. has entered into an agreement to purchase 49 Florida stores from Albertson’s LLC. The transaction is expected to close in September 2008....

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