Tyson Foods has agreed to buy Ohio-based sandwich producer AdvancePierre Foods for about $3.2bn. The acquisition will expand Tyson Foods' portfolio of prepared foods and protein-packed brands. A subsidiary of Tyson Foods will offer to ...
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TreeHouse Foods has agreed to sell its Soup and Infant Feeding (SIF) business to Riverbend Foods, a newly founded portfolio company of Insight Equity. The SIF business is based in Pittsburgh, Pa. and is a leading manufacturer of private ...
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Thai Containers Group (TCG), a joint venture between Rengo and SCG Packaging Public Company, has acquired an 80% interest in PT Indocorr Packaging Cikarang. PT Indocorr, which operates in eastern Jakarta, produces corrugated packaging ...
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Blackford Capital has made an undisclosed investment in Indiana-based Ellison Bakery, a manufacturer of cookie, snack bar, crunch and inclusion product, and other products for the industrial market, food service industry, and retail and ...
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US Foods has agreed to acquire California-based meat manufacturer FirstClass Foods for an undisclosed price. Headquartered in Hawthorne, FirstClass Foods has about $55m in annual sales. Since 1962, FirstClass Foods has been delivering ...
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Conax Technologies of Buffalo, NY, USA (a manufacturer of temperature sensors, compression seal fittings and feedthroughs, probes, sensors, wires, electrodes and fiber-optic cables) has acquired Quartz Engineering of Tempe, AZ, USA (which ...
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Clearwater Paper Corporation has reported financial results for the first quarter of 2017. The company reported net sales of $437.5 million for the first quarter of 2017, essentially flat with net sales of $437.2 million for the first ...
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Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has reported financial results for its first quarter, ending 2 April 2017. First Quarter Highlights First quarter 2017 GAAP earnings per diluted share were $0.53, ...
San Jose-based Solar Frontier Americas, the US subsidiary of Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has sold its 40MWDC (30MWAC) Midway ...
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Loews has agreed to acquire US-based rigid plastic packaging manufacturer Consolidated Container Company (CCC) from Bain Capital Private Equity for about $1.2bn. Based in Atlanta of Georgia, CCC offers packaging solutions to stable end ...
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French food manufacturer Cerelia has acquired Canada-based cookie specialist, English Bay Batter (EBB) for an undisclosed price. The acquisition is expected to accelerate Cerelia's development in North America. Headquartered in ...
Russian meat and feed producer Cherkizovo has agreed to acquire domestic grain producer Napko for around RUB5bn ($88m). Cherkizovo will also assume the net debt of the grain producer which stood at RUB751m ($13m) as of 31 March 2017. ...
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US-based rigid packaging supplier Silgan has completed the acquisition of WestRock Company’s specialty closures and dispensing systems business for $1.025bn. The business is engaged in supplying triggers, pumps, sprayers and ...
Sharp Clinical Services is investing £9.5m on new multiple-phase pharmaceutical manufacturing, packaging and distribution facility in Wales, UK. The Welsh Government is also investing £500,000 in the project, will help the ...
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API Group has invested more than $8.5m in a North American Center of Excellence in Lawrence, Kansas. The project will consolidate API’s decorative holographic and foil manufacturing on the existing site, with the addition of new ...