A New Mexico judge has granted a preliminary injunction preventing Valley Meat Co. LLC from opening its long-sought horse processing plant in Roswell. The ruling came on the same day President Barack Obama signed into law a bipartisan ...
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has set a new limit on duty-free imports of apparel articles assembled in Haiti under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity Through Partnership for Encouragement Act (HOPE). According to a notification on ...
Tags: Duty-Free Apparel, Apparel
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (Nasdaq:PPC) today announced several operational changes to improve efficiencies as part of its goal to generate approximately $200 million in savings in 2014. Effective January 24, 2014, Pilgrim's will expand ...
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Cargill, a US-based agribusiness company, is set to invest £35m to upgrade and enhance its poultry processing business in the UK. The three-year investment is a part of Cargill's strategy to focus the business on the retail sector ...
Cargill, a US-based agribusiness company, has reported a 41% drop in net earnings to $571m, for the first quarter of 2014 over stale performance in its global grain trading and processing business, affected by 2012 drought. Net sales for ...
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Arla Foods, a Danish dairy company, has selected OmPrompt's customer automation management suite to manage order processing operations at its customer service department. The company's customer service department receives about 1,000 ...
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The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) has suspended the license of food processor G. Wolf for violating food processing standards and on-going sanitation problems at its facility. The company's food processing operations ...
Tags: Food Processor, Agriculture
Australian coking coal producer Beacon Hill Resources has announced its interim results for the first half ended on June 30 of the current year. Accordingly, Beacon Hill has posted a net loss of $7.6 million for the first half, compared ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
World Bank Group member International Finance Corporation (IFC) has approved a $120m loan to Singapore-based food processor Olam International under a five-year agreement to finance upgrades and expansion of five food processing facilities ...
Tags: Food Processing, World Bank Group
PMMI: The Association for Packaging & Processing Technologies, which owns and produces the PACK EXPO family of trade shows, and Koelnmesse GmbH, organizer of trade fairs including Anuga FoodTec, are joining forces to promote their packaging ...
US agribusiness firm Cargill has opened a $40m chicken processing facility at its complex in Efremov, Russia, marking the company's first primary chicken processing operations in Russia. The facility will primarily supply McDonald's ...
Tags: Chicken, Food, chicken products
Marubeni-Itochu Steel America (MISA) announced Wednesday that it has combined three of its subsidiary metal processing companies into one consolidated company, which it wholly owns. MISA Metal Processing, Inc. (MMP) has been formed from the ...
Tags: MISA, Metal, Processing Operations
SunOpta International Foods is set to establish a new organic and speciality cocoa facility in Middenmeer, the Netherlands, as part of its efforts to expand its integrated processing capabilities. The facility will process internationally ...
Tags: SunOpta, organic and speciality cocoa facility, processing capabilities
European privacy authorities approved a plan to come up with measures to curb Google's collection, combination and storage of its users' personal information before the summer. The data protection regulators have decided to continue their ...
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PMMI, the owner and producer of the EXPO PACK and PACK EXPO family of trade shows, has announced the premiere edition of EXPO PACK Guadalajara (Feb.27 –March 1, 2013; Expo Guadalajara) has sold out. “In December, we were happy ...