Month: October 2011

Phillips Foods Announces Leadership Restructuring

October 4, 2011 Phillips Foods, Inc.

Phillips Foods announced a management team restructuring in its sales and marketing departments. This restructuring is part of the company’s strategic growth initiative to expand into new market segments and seek new competitive advantages. …

Northwest Oyster Harvest Resumes; China Remains Closed

October 4, 2011 Glenn Drosendahl, Puget Sound Business Journal

Commercial oyster harvesting can resume Saturday in all areas of Hood Canal and Puget Sound, officials said, now that the risk of bacteria-caused illness has declined due to cooler weather. …

Pilgrim's Pride To Appeal $26 Million Judgment

October 4, 2011 Christopher Leonard, Forbes

Poultry producer Pilgrim's Pride said Monday that it plans to appeal a federal judge's ruling that it must pay nearly $26 million to a group of chicken farmers for trying to manipulate chicken prices in 2008. …

Heinen's Fine Foods Launches Where Food Comes From Meat Labeling Program

October 4, 2011 Integrated Management Information (IMI Global)

Integrated Management Information, Inc. and Heinen's Fine Foods, a regional retailer with 17 locations in northeast Ohio, are pleased to announce the launch of the WhereFoodComesFrom(R) labeling program in the grocery chain's meat department. The program is designed to give customers more information about the source and origin of Heinen's Own Beef and Pork. …

Johnsonville Sets Sights On Growing Globally

October 4, 2011 Kathleen Gallagher, Journal Sentinel

Privately held Johnsonville Sausage LLC of Sheboygan Falls has set its sights on a new goal: to be the best company in the world that just happens to make sausage. …