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JBS USA To Acquire Cargill's Pork Business For $1.45 Billion

Included in JBS’ acquisition of Cargill’s pork business are two Midwest meat processing plants, five feed mills and four hog farms.

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Kraft Shareholders Approve Merger With Heinz

The transaction will create the third-largest food and beverage company in North America, and the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world.

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PETA Sues California Over Chicken Electrocutions

If PETA’s lawsuit is successful, electric stunning—which is currently believed to be the most common procedure used in California’s poultry slaughterhouses—would no longer be permitted in the state as a method for stunning birds before slaughter.

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ConAgra Foods Inc. To Exit Private Label

ConAgra bought Ralcorp in 2013 to become the biggest maker of U.S. private label foods, but the business has been plagued with problems ranging from customer service issues to pricing concessions, with sales falling nearly six percent in two years.

ConAgra Chief Executive Sean Connolly said on the company's earnings call on Tuesday it was clear trying to turn around the private label business was draining resources and that the segment would likely attract significant interest from potential buyers.

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Featured In Food Logistics: The Quest Continues For Alternative Fuels

In addition to the benefits offered by some alternative fuels such as lower costs, smaller carbon footprints and reduced emissions, fleet managers also have to consider the available fueling infrastructure, tax credits and incentives.

Public Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling stations like this one in New Berlin, Wis., are starting be built in more areas as the infrastructure for alternative fuels continues to increase.

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Former Mexican President Vicente Fox (left), Food Logistics editor in chief Lara Sowinski (middle foreground) and Supply & Demand Chain Executive editor Barry Hochfelder (right background) at Cargo Week Americas.

Peapod Launches Fresh Produce Delivery Service

Throughout the summer, customers in New York City, New Jersey, Eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin will have the option of adding a box of produce from local farms.

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Material Handling Equipment

Introducing The Eclipse Dock Shelter From Rite-Hite

Introducing The Eclipse Dock Shelter From Rite-Hite

Sysco Scraps Plan To Merge With US Foods

Under terms of the merger agreement, the termination of the transaction requires Sysco to pay break-up fees of $300 million to US Foods and $12.5 million to PFG.

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Judge Explains Why He Halted The Sysco/US Foods Merger

Judge Mehta’s 128-page ruling said the Sysco-US Foods tie-up, announced in December 2013, was the type of large combination that lawmakers were concerned about long ago when they gave the government the power to halt mergers.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said there was “plenty of evidence” in the case that showed restaurants and other buyers of food-distribution services use a mix of providers besides Sysco and US Foods.

U.S. Senate Introduces Multimodal Freight Act

The National Multimodal Freight Policy and Investment Act provides multimodal freight infrastructure with a total of $12 billion over a six-year period, with funding for multimodal freight projects distributed based on a merit-based grant program.

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Sysco Reviews FTC Injunction Against US Foods Merger

President and Chief Executive Officer Bill DeLaney said "we will take a few days to closely review the Court's ruling and assess our legal and contractual obligations, including the merits of terminating the merger agreement."

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