Greek Yogurt Maker Chobani Takes Home 2012 SBA Entrepreneurship Award

The Small Business Administration on Tuesday announced that the enormously popular Greek yogurt maker will take home its national Entrepreneurial Success of the Year Award for 2012. Now the top yogurt seller in the country, Chobani was recognized for its dramatic growth in sales and employees as well as its charitable contributions to its surrounding communities.

Wisconsin Cheese Shines At 2012 Best Of NAMA Awards

The Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB) received two first-place awards at the recent 2012 National Agri-Marketing Association’s (NAMA) annual Best of NAMA Awards in Kansas City, Missouri.

"Thin Out" Your Meals & More With New Sargento Ultra Thin Sliced Cheeses

May 3, 2012 Sargento Foods Inc.

Wish you could have your cheese (or cake) and eat it too? Well now you can! New Sargento Ultra Thin Sliced Cheese is the same delicious Sargento natural cheese, with 45 or fewer calories per slice. In celebration of the new Ultra Thin Slices, Sargento is challenging cheese lovers to "thin out" their meals and their lifestyles through a 45-day "Thin to Win" Challenge. Starting tomorrow, people can visit the Sargento Facebook page to win prizes and coupons by completing a series of challenges designed to help organize, simplify and "thin out" their lives.

Tyson Foods' Sedalia Plant Plans Expansion

May 3, 2012 Tyson Foods

As part of an effort to be the best-in-class protein supplier, Tyson Foods, Inc. recently began work on a multi-million dollar improvement and expansion project at its poultry complex in Sedalia, Missouri. The expansion will create as many as 200 additional jobs in the next two years. The complex currently employs about 1,450 people.

Sealed Air's Cryovac Food Packaging Honored With American Meat Institute Supplier Of The Year Award

Sealed Air’s Cryovac Food Packaging today was awarded the American Meat Institute’s (AMI) Supplier of the Year during the 2012 AMI Meat, Poultry & Seafood Convention and Exposition in Dallas, Texas.