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Utz Quality Foods Inc. to Acquire Golden Enterprises Inc.

Golden Enterprises Inc. and Utz Quality Foods Inc. have entered into a definitive merger agreement, pursuant to which Utz will acquire Golden Enterprises.

Company stockholders will receive $12.00 per share in cash. This price represents a premium of approximately 71 percent over the company's 30-day average closing trading price of $7.00.

Software Solutions

Supply Chain Planning and Execution Toolkit Makes Strides

Data among all supply chain nodes can integrate, creating more capable management tools.

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Material Handling Equipment

The ‘Always On’ Supply Chain Arrives in Full Force

Material Handling Institute 2016 Report explores a convergence of evolving software and hardware.

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FSMA Requirements Call for Better Data Management

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

Software can help food supply chain players improve compliance.

While the law includes seven separate rules, it requires more extensive documentation and record keeping for supply chain players.

Ocean Ports & Carriers

Federal Grants to Upgrade Six U.S. Ports; Coos Bay, Oregon gets $11 M For Railway

Federal funding from the Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects (FASTLANE) program offers "broad, multi-year eligibilities for freight infrastructure, including intermodal projects."

At the Port of Coos Bay, Ore., the state's largest coastal deep draft port, officials have received an $11 million grant to help repair all nine aging rail tunnels linking the facility with inland transportation networks.

Judge Restores Class Action Lawsuit Against Swift Transportation Over Mileage-Based Pay

Class-action status for the suit filed by one truck driver would allow it to proceed on behalf of 80,000 employee drivers nationwide.

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Royal Ahold and Delhaize to Sell 86 U.S. Stores to Weis, Publix and Supervalu

The European retailers are selling 4.1 percent of their combined U.S. stores, and the sites represent 3.2 percent of their revenue in that market.

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Brewers to Add Nutrition Labels to Beer

Anheuser-Busch InBev

According to a statement from the Beer Institute, brewers will disclose calories, carbohydrates, alcohol content by volume (ABV) and portion size, both on labels affixed to bottles and cans and on websites that will be accessible via a QR code.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, Molson Coors, Constellation Brands and Heineken, which produce more than 80 percent of the beer sold in the U.S., announced plans to begin providing consumers more nutritional information about the beers they sell.

Regulators Seek Alternatives to Proposed Great Lakes Railroad

The Surface Transportation Board’s Office of Environmental Analysis instructed the company in a July 5 letter to submit alternative alignments — or explain why there aren’t any — along its 278-mile route from LaPorte to Milton, Wis.

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Software & Technology

UberEATS Expands Food Delivery to Phoenix, Ariz.

Initially, UberEATS will deliver only to downtown and central Phoenix, Arcadia, Paradise Valley and south Scottsdale up to Shea Boulevard, although participating restaurants are spread across the Valley.

Uber is killing off its “instant” option in UberEats, its food-delivery service, just one month after the standalone app launched in New York City.

Community FoodBank of New Jersey Implements Voxware to Efficiently Serve More Families

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Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Terminals to Raise Traffic Mitigation Fees

Port of Los Angeles

PierPass launched the OffPeak program in 2005 to reduce severe cargo-related congestion on local streets and highways around the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.

The increase will sustain continued operation of PierPass OffPeak gates amid labor cost increases.

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