Month: July 2011

Sun Capital Partners, Inc., a leading private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and investments in market-leading companies, today announced that an affiliate has entered into an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Contessa Premium Foods, Inc. through a 363 bankruptcy sale. The sale was approved on June 29, 2011, by The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. The acquisition is expected to close by mid-July 2011.

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Canada Safeway Limited, one of Western Canada's largest grocery retailers, today announced their progressive Sustainable Seafood Policy in partnership with SeaChoice, a national Canadian coalition of leading environmental organizations working to protect the health of our oceans by improving the sustainability of seafood. …

European green crabs and blue tilapia may sound like exotic, even make-believe versions of more familiar types of seafood, but according to the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, they’re real, they’ve invaded U.S. waters, and cooking and eating them is a delicious way to stop their destructive onslaught – a method the group and award-winning chef Kerry Heffernan demonstrated today at New York City’s historic James Beard House. …