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New Leader in the TreeHouse

TreeHouse Foods hired Rachel R. Bishop as senior vice president and chief strategy officer.
May 29, 2014
She will be based at the TreeHouse corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Ill.
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Ahhh, Nuts...

Rich Products Corporation released findings from its inaugural "Nut Allergy Ecosystem Survey."
May 29, 2014
While the total number of people with nut allergies is fairly small, their needs are leaving a big footprint.
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The Advent of Ardent

May 29 marks the first day of business for Ardent Mills.
May 29, 2014
Ardent Mills combines the operations of ConAgra Mills and Horizon Milling, a Cargill-CHS joint venture.
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Pilgrim's Pride Wants Hillshire

Pilgrim's Pride Corp has offered to buy Hillshire Brands.
May 28, 2014
The proposed $6.4 billion deal would put the brakes on Hillshire's proposed takeover of Pinnacle Foods.
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Fewer Families in Restaurants

Restaurant visits by families with kids have been declining since 2008.
May 25, 2014
Families with kids made 1 billion fewer visits to U.S. restaurants over the past six years.
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Americans on Health

The number of American consumers who consider healthfulness when purchasing their food and beverages has shown a significant uptick in the past two years.
May 25, 2014
While taste and price consistently have been the top two factors that impact consumers’ food and beverage purchases (90% and 73% respectively), healthfulness in 2014 almost entirely closed the gap with price.
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Juice for Naturex

Naturex agreed to acquire 100% of the capital of Chicago-based Vegetable Juices Inc.
May 25, 2014
This transaction meets the group's strategic criteria for external growth projects and is expected to strengthen its position as a multi-specialist of natural ingredients.
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Inventure Likes Friday's

Inventure Foods Inc. and TGI Friday's have agreed to terms on a new long-term licensing agreement.
May 25, 2014
The agreement allows Inventure Foods to expand the TGI Friday's snack brand into new snack categories such as popcorn, corn snacks, snack mixes and tortilla chips.
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New Hostess Head

Hostess Brands LLC announced that food industry veteran William Toler has been named president and CEO.
May 25, 2014
Toler previously served as CEO of AdvancePierre Foods and president of Pinnacle.
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Cost Impacting Healthy-eating Desire

Data indicate the great majority of low-income Americans not only understand the importance of healthy eating, but also that they want to know more about how to do so.
May 21, 2014
A study says 85% of low-income families think that eating healthy meals is important to them.
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