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Target Corp. Scrutinizes Its Food Supply Chain

Target Corporation

The nation’s second largest retailer seeks to correct out of stocks and make food a shopping destination for consumers.

Target wants to make its food section a destination for shoppers. Consultants have said the company needs to focus on its outer ring selections offering fresh, refrigerated and frozen food.

Cold Stone Creamery Parent Kahala Brands Acquires Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt Chain

Pinkberry has more than 260 stores in 20 countries. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Kahala Brands, which owns quick-service restaurant names including Cold Stone Creamery and the Great Steak & Potato Co., issued a statement saying that Pinkberry is 'an excellent strategic fit for our company.'

Coca-Cola Brazil Seeks To Acquire Dairy Maker Campo Verde

Coca-Cola Company

The Food Lion, partnership between Coca-Cola Co. and its bottlers in Brazil reached a deal to buy Campo Verde, a maker of yogurts, cheeses and drinks derived from milk.

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How The Sanitary Transport Rule Will Change Life For Refrigerated Fleets And Carriers

The sanitary transport rule would regulate all food transportation in a similar manner regardless of the risk.

Bud Rodowick of Thermo King, left, and Patrick Brecht of P.E.B. Commodities, Inc. point out problems with the FSMA sanitary transport rule.

U.S. Lawmakers To Scrutinize AB InBev/SABMiller Merger

Anheuser-Busch InBev

AB InBev chief executive Carlos Brito will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A successful takeover would give AB InBev beer brands such as Peroni and Grolsch and control of about half of the industry’s profit.

WTO Approves Retaliatory Tariffs on U.S. Produce And Meat Over COOL

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Thai Union Group Scraps Plans To Buy Bumble Bee Seafoods Due To U.S. Regulator Concerns

The deal would have given Thai Union control of some of North America's best-known seafood lines, including two of the three biggest canned tuna brands in the United States, and was part of its quest to hit revenue of $8 billion by 2020.

Software Solutions

Automated Imaging Improves Food Logistics For Supermarket

Framos GmbH provides an insight into the benefits imaging can provide to all retail and mail order sectors as optimizing logistics is essential to lower costs, increase throughput and increase reliability.

Framos GmbH, a global imaging provider based in Taufkirchen, Germany, installed solutions at various processing stations, using traditional imaging processing, self-learning algorithms and classifiers to ensure robust and smooth operation. For example this enables the systems in the “empty containers center,” to recognize different container types and select the correct process path.

Kroger’s Roundy’s Acquisition To Squeeze Produce Suppliers

The additional stores will only strengthen Kroger’s position when it comes to pressing suppliers for the lowest possible prices according to Darren Tristano, president of Technomic Inc., a Chicago food research firm.

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Spot Truckload Market: Reefer, Van Volume Grows

DAT Freight & Analytics

The national average spot refrigerated freight rate was unchanged at $1.94 per mile as a 1-cent increase in the line-haul rate was offset by a 1-cent decline in the average fuel surcharge.

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Molson Coors Brewing Co. Nears $12 Billion Deal

AB InBev needed to find a buyer for SABMiller’s MillerCoors stake before moving forward with a final offer so that it could improve its odds of winning regulatory approval in the U.S., where it has a 45 percent market share and MillerCoors has 25 percent.

Molson Coors Brewing Co. is nearing a deal to buy the rest of the MillerCoors LLC U.S. joint venture in a $12 billion deal that would pave the way for SABMiller PLC to cement its blockbuster sale to Anheuser-Busch InBev NV.

European Union Okays Coca-Cola Enterprises Merger Plans To Create World’s Largest Independent Bottler

Coca-Cola Company

The combination with Coca-Cola Iberian Partners (CCIP) and the German bottling business of Coca-Cola would create the world's largest independent bottler of Coke drinks by net revenue, present in Spain, France and Britain and 10 other countries.

Muhtar Kent, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, Sol Daurella, Executive Chairwoman of Coca-Cola Iberian Partners and John Brock, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. toast the creation of Coca-Cola European Partners.

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