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Smithfield Goes On Defensive Over COVID-19 Response

Smithfield Foods Inc. is defending its efforts to keep employees safe and supply food to the nation during the coronavirus pandemic.

August 3, 2020
BusinessSafetyTop 100

JBS to Shut Down Minnesota Pork Plant After COVID-19 Outbreak

JBS SA, the world’s top meat company, will shutter its pork processing facility in Minnesota following an outbreak of the coronavirus, adding to concerns that slaughterhouse logjams will tighten meat supplies for consumers.

April 20, 2020
GovernmentBusinessLogisticsTCA

Kroger CEO: ‘There’s Plenty of Food in the Supply Chain’

Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen urges the public to remember that the grocery business deals in perishable goods and is set up to constantly ship and refill store shelves.

March 18, 2020
Business

Apollo Offers $1.1 Billion to Buy Back Smart & Final Stores

Apollo Global Management is getting back into the grocery business in a big way.

April 22, 2019
BusinessTechnology

FoodMaven Secures $10 Million Funding Round

FoodMaven, which provides an online marketplace for oversupplied, out-of-spec and local food, has closed a $10 million round of funding, the Colorado Springs, Colo., startup said.

January 29, 2019
Business

H.I.G. Capital Acquires Lipari Foods

Global private equity firm H.I.G. Capital has acquired Lipari Foods from Sterling Investment Partners, per a Jan. 8 press release. Financial terms were not disclosed.

January 16, 2019
GovernmentBusiness

Dot Foods to Expand Operations in Western Maryland

Dot Foods will expand operations in western Maryland with a two-phase project that will add at least 100 new jobs over the next seven years, many of which will be truck drivers, the company announced on Sept. 14.

September 16, 2016
BusinessSafety

FDA Issues Food Safety Rule

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week issued its final rule establishing new requirements for the sanitary transportation of human and animal food by truck and rail, to guard against food contamination.

April 11, 2016
Business

FDA Plan Costly, Unnecessary, Agricultural Haulers Caution

A proposed federal rule that would toughen requirements for the transport and handling of food would be costly and is unnecessary, trade groups representing food haulers, farmers and distributors said.

August 11, 2014