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Del Monte Pacific Acquires U.S. Veg Group Sager Creek For $75 Million

Fresh Del Monte Produce

Sager Creek produces speciality vegetables for foodservice and retail customers and includes brands like Veg-All, Freshlike, Popeye, Princella and Allens', among others.

Court Orders Seafood Processor To Halt Production Over Listeria

The most recent inspection found that the company had not followed best practices to prevent other types of contamination.

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E-Commerce Leaders Add Brick And Mortar Stores

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Food And Beverage To Push Demand For Refrigerated Vehicles Through 2020

The rise in home delivery of frozen and chilled food and beverages, for instance, is helping spur market opportunities for refrigerated transportation.

Reefer load posts picked up 10 percent and volume was up markedly in big metro areas like Los Angeles and Dallas. The number of truck posts fell 2 percent nationwide, bumping the refrigerated load-to-truck ratio up 12 percent from 2.8 to 3.1. The national average reefer rate increased 1 cent to $1.80 per mile.

Vertical Farming Brings Agriculture To Urban Environments

AeroFarms is developing the world's largest-producing vertical farm in a vacant steel factory in Newark that after it begins running later this year, the farm's indoor system will grow around 2 million pounds of baby greens annually.

AeroFarms is set to open the world's largest indoor vertical farm will open in the second half of 2015.

Sabra Dipping Co. Recalls 30,000 Cases Of Classic Hummus Over Listeria Concern

The potential for contamination was discovered when a routine, random sample collected at a retail location on March 30th, 2015 by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

Sabra Dipping Co. is voluntarily recalling certain hummus products made prior to November 8, 2016, due to concerns over Listeria monocytogenes, which was identified at the manufacturing facility but not in tested finished product.

Heinz-Kraft Merger Comes From Weakness, Not Strength, Says CPG Expert: 'It’s Almost As If The Large Tier One Guys Have Surrendered'

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Smithfield Foods, Inc. Builds $12 M Bacon Plant In Cudahy, Wis.

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The new, 17,000-square-foot plant will include four slicing lines that will increase Smithfield Foods' bacon capacity by approximately 10 million pounds.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

CMA CGM Group Makes Kingston, Jamaica Its Caribbean Hub

The terminal extension will turn Kingston into one of the Caribbean top five ports.

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Cold Train Officials Sue BNSF For Ruining Its Intermodal Service

The former CEO and managing member of the Cold Train have filed a $41 million lawsuit against Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway in the U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash., for having to shut down the intermodal service in August of 2014.

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Will Package Delivery Giants Now Focus On Logistics And Freight Forwarding?

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Future acquisitions by the major package delivery firms may focus on growing other parts of their business, such as contract logistics, logistics or freight forwarding, notes one analyst in light of FedEx Corp.’s planned acquisition of TNT Express.

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Software Solutions

Farmers Adopt Drones For Tending To Livestock

Scientists at the University of Oxford and other U.K. universities launched the “Robot Sheepdog Project” in 1995, and developed a box-size device that could chase a dozen ducks to one place in an enclosed area.

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